Katie Button
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Katie Button is a cookbook author, mother, five-time James Beard Award nominee, the chef and co-founder of the acclaimed Spanish restaurant Cúrate Bar de Tapas and a Food & Wine Best New Chef (2015). Under her stewardship, Cúrate Bar de Tapas was honored with the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Hospitality Award in 2022 and was recognized in the 2025 Michelin Guide. SPANISH ACCENT, Button’s second cookbook, celebrates bold Spanish flavors through a modern, personal lens, continuing the culinary journey she began with her first cookbook, Cúrate: Authentic Spanish Food from an American Kitchen (2016), which brought the spirit of her restaurant into home kitchens.
Button is the host of Magnolia Network’s From the Source and was most recently selected as one of 16 elite chefs to compete on CBS’s high-stakes culinary competition series America’s Culinary Cup, where she showcases her creativity, technical precision, and leadership on a national stage. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
