Congrats Chef Diana Stavaridis!

GrowingGreat congratulates our friend, Chef Stavaridis, who was mentioned in CBS’s Best Up & Coming Female Chefs In Los Angeles article. “Diana was tapped to helm Manhattan Beach’s Manhattan House, using her accumulated knowledge of everything from fine dining to local farming. Diana is also deeply involved with the community garden program, Growing Great, where she spends her free time helping local children learn the benefits of eating what you grow. She received the Rising Star Chef of Los Angeles award from StarChefs, and has appeared on several television shows such as Food Networks “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”, as a guest judge on “The Next Food Network Star.””

Chef D, as her friends call her, has been involved with GrowingGreat since 2014. She was one of the featured chefs at GrowingGreat’s May 2015 Farm to Table Benefit. and has planted a garden at Pacific Elementary in Manhattan Beach. students plant stu dents