Stephan Pyles – Stephan Pyles Restaurant
Stephan Pyles, a fifth generation Texan and a pioneer of New American Cuisine, has created 14 restaurants over the past 24 years. A founding father of Southwestern Cuisine, he was the first Texan inducted into The James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America and Bon Appétit has credited him with “almost single-handedly changing the cooking scene in Texas”. Pyles has now developed a signature restaurant in Dallas that carries his name. The restaurant, Stephan Pyles, serves what Pyles calls “New Millennium Southwestern Cuisine”. His menu is more global than in the past, representing not only the influences of Spain on the New World, but also incorporating the cultures and flavors that are inherently Spanish such as Middle Eastern and Mediterranean.