5 Inspiring Chefs Who Had an Amazing Year in 2016

Carla Hall, cohost of ABC's The Chew, is a seriously talented Southern chef whose very first restaurant, Carla Hall's Southern Kitchen, opened in Brooklyn this year. Her back-to-basics menu includes fried chicken, pimento cheese, chow chow relish, buttermilk biscuits, collard greens, and more Southern staples. The Top Chef finalist also became a culinary ambassador for the North Star Cafe in the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. "How often can you say that you're actually a part of such an important place that everybody from all over the country is going to come and see?" Carla told The Washington Post.