If you find yourself in the Asian country of Nepal, visit the Bakery cafe in the capital of Kathmandu where the wait staff is deaf. Read about it here.
A deaf chef from Austin, Texas is in the running for the title Hottest Chef in America, an annual competition sponsored by a site called Eater that started a few years ago in New York and has expanded to other cities. Kurt "The Irishman" Ramborger beat out the 32 Austin competitors and is now among 17 chefs vying for the title. Ramborger made it through the first round by beating Portland's Greg Gourdet. He'll face a Seattle competitor next. Deaf since birth, Ramborger opened a new restaurant with some friends in the Austin suburb of Buda just a few months ago. Ramborger is executive chef at ViUDA Bistro (pronounced View-dah), owner Paul Rutowski is also president of the Texas Association of the Deaf, and their partner, Rene Alcala, got the idea off the ground by convincing the two men to quit their catering service and go into the restaurant business. His sister, Heidi Branch is posting video updates of his progress. KEYE-TV interviewed Ramborger this past Friday. Watch that video here.
Melody and Russell Stein opened Mozzeria in the Mission district of San Francisco at the end of 2011. The owners are deaf, as are many of the wait staff and cooks. The Neapolitan-style pizzas are cooked in a wood-burning oven. The name Mozzeria is a combination of mozzarella cheese and pizzeria.
The South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind hold it's annual chili cook-off tomorrow. The 2012 So You Think You Can Cook Chili Cook-off fundraiser takes place at downtown Spartanburg’s Indigo Hall. Eleven teams are competing. There is more information here.
Most of the staff are deaf at the Cafe Signes in Paris. They sometimes wear t-shirts that show hand signals spelling "welcome" printed on the back. The patrons order (or try to order!) in sign language. Cafe Signes opened its doors in the Spring of 2003.
Read more here.
The US has its first speciality coffee outlet operated by the deaf. DiB Coffees of Hawaii is run by Malaysian deaf and features coffee grown on the Hawaiian islands of Moloka'i and Maui, as well as herbal teas. Read more about it here.
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