Chef Paul Berglund has been at the stove for the better part of the last two decades and is thrilled to be opening his first restaurant as an owner in Ada, MI, where he lives with his wife, Tia, and two sons Henri (puppy) and Rumi (human).

Paul grew up in the Midwest and graduated from the University of Michigan before serving in the U.S. Navy. He has been cooking ever since, most notably as the executive chef of The Bachelor Farmer in Minneapolis, where he helped chart that city’s culinary rise to national prominence and was awarded the 2016 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Midwest.

Though his career path has taken him away from pizza and pasta in recent years, they are the first foods he mastered as a young chef and the ones he has been dreaming about ever since. He can't wait to fire up the wood oven and get back to the foods he loves most!