Chef Victor Scargle
Victor Scargle has been preparing his entire career for his move to culinary instructor at the CIA Greystone (St. Helena CA). His resume lists some of the most prestigious kitchens in the country, working together with chefs who have changed the flavor and form of contemporary menus.
Scargle has loved cooking since childhood, when he and his father would prepare such family favorites as spaghetti with clam sauce, lemon meringue pie and sugar cookies. He cooked in restaurants during high school and college, so no one was surprised when, after studying economics at University of California, Santa Barbara, he returned to his childhood passion by enrolling in a one-year apprenticeship at Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort under Executive Chef Brian Bird. Following his chef's advice to travel and work with a variety of chefs and ingredients, he worked for a year under Chef Robin Haas of the Colony Bistro in Miami's South Beach and with Douglas Rodriguez at Patria in New York, then did stages at some of Manhattan's best restaurants.
When he returned to the West Coast, he went to work for Michael Mina at Aqua in San Francisco, then assisted in the opening of Aqua's sister restaurant in Las Vegas. He then worked as the Executive Chef at Pisces in Burlingame, where he received three stars from the San Francisco Chronicle and became one of the newspaper's annual "Rising Star Chefs." He moved on to Jardiniere as Chef de Cuisine, followed by a stint as Executive Chef at Kimpton's Grand Cafe.
In 2003, Scargle joined The Patina Group and was appointed Executive Chef of Julia's Kitchen at COPIA. In 2004, the Wine Spectator named Julia's Kitchen one of the top upscale restaurants in Napa Valley, the San Francisco Chronicle awarded Chef Scargle three and one-half stars (out of four), and he prepared a dinner at the famed Beard's House in New York.
Most recently, Scargle was manning the stoves as Executive Chef at Cindy Pawlcyn's Go Fish in St. Helena CA.
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