Jeffrey Everts, Executive Chef, The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa

Executive Chef Jeffrey Everts joined The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa in 2005.  Over the course of his successful career, Chef Everts has earned national acclaim for his inspired and creative culinary talents.  His combination of classic cooking techniques and a uniquely personalized creative flair has won him favor both from diners and from some of the nation’s premier culinary publications.

Just prior to arriving at The Houstonian, Everts served as Area Executive Chef for Kor Hotel Group in Los Angeles, where he led the kitchens and oversaw operations for the Avalon Hotel’s blue on blue and Citron at Viceroy Palm Springs.

In 2001, Everts was executive chef at Boston’s Spire restaurant, located at the hip boutique hotel NINE ZERO.  Shortly after opening with Everts leading kitchen operations and menu creation, Spire was named by Food and Wine as one of ‘America’s 50 Best Hotel Restaurants” and included on Bon Appetit’s 2003 “Search of the Best.”

He began his career in the hotel restaurant world as chef tournant at The Hotel Bel Air under James Beard Chef Gary Clauson, before joining Westin Hotels & Resorts.  With Westin, Mr. Everts served as Executive Chef at The Westin South Coast Plaza, home to Joachim Splichal’s Pinot Provence restaurant.  His extensive travels with Westin introduced him to new flavors and ideas throughout the country and beyond, including the Westin St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Everts has enjoyed the tutelage of a host of outstanding chefs throughout his career who have both taught and inspired him.  While attending culinary school in Scottsdale, Arizona, he worked as cook tournant under James Beard Award winner Alex Stratta at the five-star Mary Elaine’s.  It was under Stratta’s guidance that Everts first discovered and explored the art of classic French cooking and, in the process, found a passion that would fuel his career.  He also had the pleasure of working under James Beard Chef Gary Clauson at The Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles.