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Check out these Austin chefs doing their thing way back in the day for Classics Week.
Tyson Cole, currently executive chef and owner of Uchi and Uchiko, Paul Qui, and the Uchi staff in 2005.
Cole in front of Uchi in 2002.
Cole in 2003, location unknown.
Cole and Uchi chef Masa in 2003
The Uchi staff in 2003.
Bryce Gilmore, currently owner and chef at Barley Swine and Odd Duck, date and location unknown.
Jack Gilmore, currently owner and chef of Jack Allen’s Kitchen, date and location unknown.
Gilmore, date and location unknown.
Patricia and David Ayer, far right, original co-founder of Kerbey Lane, with their son Mason Ayer, currently CEO of Kerbey Lane Cafe, on Patricia’s hip, in 1982.
Taylor Hall, currently chef at Apis, working at Postrio in San Francisco in 2004.
Carlos Buscaglia, currently executive chef at Due Forni, eating with his family while he was the sous chef at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in 1997.
Iliana de la Vega, currently executive chef of El Naranjo, teaching at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio, date unknown.
Sarah McIntosh, currently owner and chef of Épicerie, grilling lobsters with her brother in the Florida Keys in 2006.
Janina O’Leary, currently pastry chef at LaV, bottom right, when she worked at Per Se in New York.
Jessica Maher, currently co-owner of Lenoir and Métier, learning how to make commercial ice cream at Bouley in Boston, when she was 26 years old.
Todd Duplechan, currently executive chef at Lenoir, co-owner of Métier, and Maher’s husband, in culinary school when he was 19 years old.
Duplechan at Solly’s BBQ in Dallas when he was 17 years old.
Aurelio and Rosa Torres, co-owners of Mi Madre, in 1999.
Elaine Martin, currently chef and owner of Eastside Cafe, in the center with the women of Moveable Feast, a Northwest Hills restaurant in the 1980s.
Shawn Cirkiel, currently chef and owner of the Parkside Project restaurants, working at Jean-Luc’s Bistro in Austin in 2001-2002.
John Lichtenberger, currently executive chef at Péché, during his graduation at the French Culinary Institute in New York in 1985.
Dave Paul and Mark Greenberg, co-founders of Pluckers, at a UT Chili Cook-off, where they created the wings restaurant, in the late 1990s.
Greenberg building out Plucker’s first location in 1994-1995.
Kerstin Bellah, currently head pastry chef at St. Philip, in 2011.
Bellah, left, during the filming of “Cupcake Wars” in 2012.
C.K. Chin, currently owner of Swift’s Attic and Wu Chow, bartending in college.
Jeff Hammett, currently bar manager of Swift’s Attic, with friends and staff from Landry’s in the 1990s.
Roberto Espinosa and Eric Wilkerson, co-owners of Tacodeli, at the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival in 2001.
Espinosa at the Tacodeli Spyglass before it opened in 1999.
