The Beehive Oven is an independent kitchen built around one simple idea: good food gives people a reason to gather.
Good food doesn't always have to be complicated. Sometimes it's a five-course dinner. Sometimes it’s bread warm from the oven. Sometimes it's a bite you find halfway across the world and spend years trying to recreate.
We're interested in all of it.
The Beehive Oven exists to cook, travel, learn, experiment, and share what we learn with the people around the table.
Behind the Oven
If you’re inviting me into your home to cook, you probably want to know the person behind the pan.
I left university to chase cooking because I wasn’t inspired. I spent the next several years studying food, traveling, and cooking my way from kitchen to kitchen, up and down the Southeast for award-winning chefs and restaurant groups.
I left kitchens because I wasn’t inspired. I spent the next decade chasing numbers in the mortgage industry. As the industry changed and the perceived stability of an office job started to disappear, I found myself questioning what my passion was once again.
Luckily, during that decade of chasing numbers, I healed my relationship with cooking and food. I realized the inspiration I was missing while working in kitchens wasn’t the cooking or the food. It was the distance I felt from the reason I started cooking in the first place: the connections built across the table when food is shared.
I cook with more curiosity now. Observing the places I go and what people eat. Always trying to learn more about food and the reasons it connects people.
The Beehive Oven is an attempt to chase my passion again. To find good food and share it with you. To make room for whatever happens around the table.