Matt Weingarten

A longtime advocate of sustainability, Matt Weingarten brings a strong sense of what he champions to his position as executive chef at Inside Park at St. Bart’s. Growing up in a home where food was the focus of family gatherings, Weingarten cares a great deal about old world sense of ‘place and season’ at the table. He made it a priority to work with chef mentors who are like-minded, and now he is the lead craftsperson in the kitchen where it’s his turn to be the mentor and share with others his thoughts concerning culinary authenticity. Previously he was the chef de cuisine at Peter Hoffman’s Savoy restaurant in New York. Working under the tutelage of one of the country’s forerunners of “locovorism”, seasonal integrity and provenance of the ingredient, Weingarten was greatly influenced by how our choices not only affect our lives in the kitchen, but how they are knitted together into all areas of sustainability for the planet as well.