Jamie Malone

Chef

Jamie is a woman of contrasts, soft-spoken with a sharp wit, somebody who values the functional and the beautiful. She’s constantly learning, building, modifying, making. Her cooking career started in 2012, in her hometown of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Just one year into working at award-winning Chef Tim McKee’s Sea Change, Jamie was named 2013 Best New Chef in America by Food & Wine.

Fast forward a few years when she and her partner, Erik Anderson, took over Grand Café, one of the Twin Cities’ long-standing culinary institutions. It proved to be the right move: in 2018, the reinvented restaurant was named one of the country’s best by Food & Wine. That same issue, one of her sweet and savory dishes made the cover as Dish of the Year. Her latest venture features the same spirit of reinvention: taking over downtown Minneapolis eatery Eastside, and infusing her own brand of awesome weirdness into it.