In early December, at the 2022 Michelin awards ceremony in Los Angeles, David Kinch, the celebrated chef-owner of Manresa, responded to the applause that accompanied his final three-Michelin-star honors by praising the chefs and restaurateurs in the crowd for making it through the challenging pandemic years.
And then the man who would step away from his world-famous Los Gatos restaurant on Jan. 1, after 20 years in business, talked of the diverse California culinary industry’s boundless potential, adding: “You haven’t seen the last from me yet.”
Already, his next chapter is unfolding.
Kinch and his business and bakery partners will create the first restaurants for the North 40, the massive
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