Susan Feniger

Susan Feniger’s passion for food has propelled her into a three-decade career as a successful restaurateur, cookbook author, and media darling. The L.A. Times recently said “She deserves an Emmy for energy.” She spends most days dividing her time between her first solo venture, Susan Feniger’s STREET, and the Border Grill restaurants in Santa Monica, Downtown Los Angeles and Las Vegas (at Mandalay Bay), the Border Grill Truck and Border Grill Stop in downtown Los Angeles – all co-owned with Mary Sue Milliken. And for the last two years one of her restaurants has catered the ET/People Magazine Emmy after-party.

She is a much in demand celebrity chef with a recent season on “Top Chef Masters,” a feature story in Oprah Magazine and a wide range of media including “The Today Show,” “Chef vs. City,” “The Best Thing I Ever Ate, “Unique Eats,” “United Tastes of America,” Gourmet Magazine, Sunset, Bon Appetit and Westways, among many others. She was a featured chef at the U.S. Open and cooked for the “Housewives of Orange County.”

Feniger has been a trailblazer from the start. A classically trained graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, she landed a job in the kitchen of Chicago’s famed Le Perroquet in 1978, where she met Mary Sue. Their collaboration led to a variety of successful endeavors including City Café, CITY Restaurant, Border Grill, Ciudad, a radio show “Good Food” on public station KCRW and “Too Hot Tamales” on the Food Network, along with popular cookbooks including City Cuisine, Mesa Mexicana, Cantina, Cooking with Too Hot Tamales, and Mexican Cooking for Dummies

Susan shines a light on a number of worthwhile organizations including Chefs Collaborative, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs and the LA Sports & Entertainment Commission. Susan has been on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation for seventeen years and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center for three years.