Welcome Chef Don Flores, Senior Executive Chef, FGF Catering

About Chef Don

Donneil “Don” Flores, Senior Executive Chef, Food Glorious Food, was inspired by his father, who was also a chef. When young Don went into his dad’s kitchen, he thought all the people working the line looked like superheroes.

His first career was as a pilot for a commercial airline, but after two years of flying airplanes, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a chef. He moved to New York City, and offered to work for free in Celebrity Chef Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin and Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill while he was attending classes at the Institute of Culinary Arts. By the time he received his diploma, he was a working sous chef in some of the finest restaurants in the city.

His resume is impressive in its broad scope: he deigned kitchens, opened a few dozen concepts, supervised hundred of cooks, standardized production recipes to ensure consistent quality and lower food costs, and consulted at Casa Pomona in New York City, where he build the menu from the ground up as well as designed the kitchen.

After eight years, he moved back to Los Angeles and was executive chef for Katsuya for a couple of years before relocating to Dallas, where he worked in prestigious kitchens including the Adolphus and the Joule Hotels as well as several well-regarded freestanding restaurants.

Chef Don is excited about joining our company and heading up the largest off-premise catering kitchen in North Texas.