Sean Brock

For 25 years Sean Brock, a native of the Coalfields of rural Virginia, has been passionately dedicated to Southern cuisine and created some of the South’s most celebrated restaurants: Husk and McCrady’s in Charleston and Audrey, Joyland and June in Nashville.
Sean has won James Beard Awards for Best Chef (2010) and Best American Cookbook (2015), starred in Netflix’s Chef’s Table and also Mind of a Chef, alongside Anthony Bourdain, for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Culinary Program. In 2025, he opened two ambitious new projects: Sho, a pizzeria in East Nashville inspired by his obsession with Tokyo Napoli pizza, and Darling, his first restaurant outside of the American South, inspired by his profound love for HiFi audio, rare vinyl records, and his passion for live-fire cooking.