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Caliza Grille
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420 West Market Street
San Antonio, TX
Phone: 210-224-6500
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Executive Chef Chip McMullin
Chip McMullin joined The Westin Riverwalk as executive chef in January 2004. His culinary career began in 1994 when he graduated from the renowned New England Culinary Institute's Advanced Placement Program in the top 5 percent of his class. He's been at the head of the class ever since.
"Making a difference is what I think about every day, all the time. It even actually bothers me when I am trying to relax. A chef I know would tell me that if I think I am working smart, work smarter and if I think I am working hard, work harder," said McMullin.
Indeed, it is McMullin's dazzling passion that has so defined every step of his career from tossing pizzas at sixteen to his current position as executive chef of The Westin Riverwalk's food and beverage outlets.
After attending Pasadena City College and the Epicurean Culinary School in Hollywood, McMullin worked as chef de partie at The Four Oaks in Bel Air, California. This four-star French restaurant is well known for their chef Peter Roulant from the famed Giraubet's of Switerland. Next, he served as sous chef at the fasionable Roxxi Restaurant in Pasadena before heading east to the New England Culinary Institute.
He interned as an apprentice pastry chef at The Grand Palazzo Hotel in the Virgin Islands where he had the pleasure to learn from Executive Pastry Chef Fabrice Dubuc, a graduate of the French Pastry Institue. Dubuc instilled fundamentals in McMullin that he countinues to draw upon today.
From the Virgin Islands he traveled back to California where he was employed as dining room manager and chef for the Chelsea Restaurant in San Marino.
Prior to joining Westin, McMullin was sous chef at the internationally-renowned five-star, five-diamond Mary Elaine's Restaurant at The Phoenician. McMullin began his tutelage under James Beard Award winner Alessandro Stratta in 1995 and finished in 2001 under James Bear Award nominee James Boyce.
McMullin's career at The Phoenician ended when he was asked to take over as executive sous chef at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, California in May 2001, a position he held until joining The Westin Riverwalk in January 2004.
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