Chef
Jordan Grosser
- Discipline
- Chef
- Based in
- Los Angeles, California, United States

i. Biography
At Honor Bar in Emeryville, the cooking is organized around a working grill: short-rib sliders, local chilled oysters, bone marrow, and a Bucket o’ Yard Birds gathered around heat, smoke, and direct appetite.
The Place An everyday restaurant, as Jordan Grosser has described Honor, depends on usefulness more than posture. The menu treats the grill as structure rather than backdrop: meat, shellfish, marrow, sausage, ribs, and sliders arranged for direct, unfussy eating.
The Method A grill menu built around BBQed Texas Mop Pork Ribs, short rib sliders, and house-made merguez sausage shows its method without much explanation. Ribs take mop sauce, beef is handled in slider form, sausage is made in-house, and the cooking depends on fire, fat, seasoning, and timing rather than distance from the diner. Short-rib sliders also sit inside the broader Honor Bar menu, alongside local chilled oysters, bone marrow, and the Bucket o’ Yard Birds.
The Range Turducken at Honor Bar, one of Jordan Grosser’s named signatures, moves a Thanksgiving stunt dish into a summery register. The format keeps the theatrical premise but loosens it from its usual calendar. Bone Marrow Brulee, another named dish from the restaurant, sets up the central tension plainly in the title: marrow, with its deep savor, handled through the language of brulee, a technique associated with a set surface and a finished contrast. Clandestine dining and wildly creative events form the second arena through Stag Dining Group, which Jordan Grosser co-founded. The setting changes, but the appetite remains close to the Honor Bar work: staged surprise, communal energy, and dishes built to register in the room where they appear.
Signature
Signature dishes include Turducken at Honor Bar and Bone Marrow Brulee at Honor Bar.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
Asked of Jordan
Who is Jordan Grosser?
Jordan Grosser is chef at Honor Bar.
What is Jordan Grosser known for?
Wildly creative events and clandestine dining through Stag Dining Group.







