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    Chef

    Varanya Geyoonsawat

    Chef de Cuisine, Kann

    Discipline
    Chef
    Based in
    Portland, Oregon, United States
    Portrait of Varanya Geyoonsawat

    i. Biography

    Varanya Geyoonsawat is the chef de cuisine at Kann in Portland, Oregon, the wood-fired Haitian restaurant led by Gregory Gourdet. Coverage of Kann identifies her as a native of Bangkok, Thailand, and describes her as overseeing the restaurant’s kitchen in 2022–2024. In 2026, reporting described her as a longtime chef de cuisine at Kann who had opened her own food cart in Oregon City, indicating a career move away from the restaurant role.