Carolina Santos-Neves

Carolina is currently the Executive Chef at the West Village restaurant American Bar. When she is not in the restaurants, or even when she is, she’s working with the co-organizers of @breakingbread.nyc on feeding members of the New York community who are food insecure. She's huge into collaborating with other culinary creatives and in the past year has done pop up's in Paris, London, Upstate New York, and Mexico City.

CARO, as many call her, has always been a huge believer in the power of food, especially as it relates to greater understanding of culture & humanity. She presently sits on the advisory board for ABLF, a non-Profit which focuses on upward mobility for marginalized communities. She first entered the world of food in 2008 where she joined the team at Epicurious, and eventually joined the opening team at Comodo, a Latin-inspired restaurant which resided on MacDougal Street.

Prior to her work there, she founded her culinary consultancy Call Me Caro where she created food programs for start up companies like The Assemblage and Parsley Health, as well as provided chef services for mission driven concepts where food played an integral part in connecting with the community.

Over the years she’s worked with companies and organizations like Thinx, Lily CBD, The Bowery Mission, A Second U Foundation, Dive in Well, Kin Euphorics, Great Jones, WPA, and No.29.

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