PUBLISHED: December 14, 2022 at 6:00 authentic ukrainian borscht. UPDATED: December 14, 2022 at 8:47 a.

Let’s make your next dinner reservation easy. So, if you’re looking for a chef-driven restaurant where the wizards behind the curtain are just as genuine as the food they put on the plate, look no further. Here are seven chefs to watch. Caroline Glover, chef and co-owner of Annette in Aurora, won the best chef in the Mountain Region category for the James Beard Foundation’s prestigious Restaurant and Chef Awards in 2022. Annette, which opened in the Stanley Marketplace in 2017, is known for its elevated, made-from-scratch comfort food, like chicken liver pâté and sardines with a baguette. Some of its most popular dishes are the grilled beef tongue with bone marrow toast, as well as the Annette burger, which Glover begrudgingly added to the menu after multiple requests. A fresh peach dessert with diplomat cream at Annette.

Glover, 36, studied at The Culinary Institute of America before working at The Spotted Pig in Manhattan for two years. After feeling burned out by the big city, she went to work on farms in Pennsylvania and Vermont. Annette since day one, which she said helps her and her  employees stay consistent with her original vision. Although she has her hands full with her first child on the way, Glover said she’d eventually like to open another Annette location or sister restaurant.