Gaby Maeda

Gaby Maeda is a San Francisco–based chef who trained at the California Culinary Academy, completed an externship at Restaurant Gary Danko, and then spent five years on the line there before joining State Bird Provisions in 2014. She rose there from line cook to executive chef and was identified in 2021 as one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs and in 2020 as a James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year finalist. In 2024, she was also reported as the chef at Friends and Family in Oakland after leaving State Bird Provisions.