Charleen Badman

Charleen Badman is an American chef and co-owner of the FnB restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona, who won the 2019 Best Chef in the Southwest James Beard Award.[1][2] It was the first time since 2007 that a chef from Arizona won the award.[3]

Charleen Badman
Born
Tucson, Arizona
Culinary career
Award(s) won
  • James Beard Award, Best Chef in Southwest 2019
Websitewww.fnbrestaurant.com/about

Badman is a past President of the Phoenix, Arizona chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier.[4]

Biography

Badman’s father Donn was a construction worker. A high school program in Tucson, Arizona introduced her to the restaurant industry. She worked at a restaurant named Terra Cotta during her senior year and when she graduated in 1989, she was put in charge of the million dollar catering arm of the restaurant. She left when she found out Anne Rosenzweig was opening a new restaurant. For the next six years she worked at Rosenzweig‘s Lobster Club.[5][6]

When Rosenzweig opened the West Village restaurant Inside in 2001, Badman was put in charge but the September 11 attacks on the nearby World Trade Center led to her decision to return to Arizona. Together with Pavle Milic, she opened FnB.[5]

References
  1. "The Arizona restaurants and chefs recognized by the James Beard Awards". azcentral. March 16, 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. Armato, Dominic (May 6, 2019). "James Beard Award results are in. Charleen Badman of FnB is this year's Best Chef Southwest". The Republic. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  3. Buchanan, Nikki (May 8, 2019). "Charleen Badman is Arizona's Newest James Beard Award Winner". Phoenix Magazine. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  4. "CHARLEEN BADMAN". Slow Food Phoenix. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  5. Armato, Dominic (29 April 2019). "Charleen Badman runs one of the best restaurants in Arizona. But her heart is in her garden". The Arizona Republic.
  6. Hodgson, Moira (November 12, 2001). "A Cursed West Village Space Is Finally Blessed by Inside". The Observer. Retrieved 27 August 2022.


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