Chefs and Restaurants

2019 Chef to Watch Ashleigh Shanti on Her New Book and Latest Restaurant

Plate Staff

What have you been up to professionally since you were a Plate Chef to Watch in 2019?

I left my post at Benne on Eagle in late 2020 after a two-year run of serving some really amazing guests food that I am still so deeply proud of. Then I traveled back to my childhood home in coastal Virginia and got to work on my first cookbook, “Our South,” which will be released on...