By Sasha Paulson | Napa Valley Register | December 23, 2017
Chef Michael Chiarello estimates he’s spent about 180,000 hours behind stoves in his career, opening high-end Italian restaurants like Tra Vigne and Bottega, which became landmarks in the Napa Valley, as well as starring in television shows, and cooking at fundraisers and demos.
All of this experience has led to the pinnacle of culinary achievement: the perfection of the American classics, the burger, fries and ice cream.
Michael Chiarello and his caught, Giana Chiarello, opened Platform 8 in Yountville. She is working on the restaurant with him. – Sasha Paulson, Register
“You would not believe how many hours we put into this,” he said cheerfully as he conducted a tour of his newly opened, newest enterprise in Yountville. With him was his daughter, Giana, who is working with her dad these days. Together they posed in front of a sign: “Platform 8, Finally…Open.”
“After 24 years here in the valley, I thought about what was missing here, what was missing in Yountville,” said Chiarello.
The answer is here in his new eatery, subtitled, “a modern burger joint and ice cream lab.”…
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