A San Francisco native and Filipino American chef, Monique Feybesse has worked her way upin some of the best restaurants in the world located in SF Bay Area, Geranium in Copenhagen,Ledoyen in Paris, and Atera in New York. After moving back to the Bay Area to start her family in 2016, Monique became the CDC of Cavallo Point’s Murray Circle restaurant later running the culinary program at Robert Sinskey Vineyards. Monique was also featured in Bravo’s Top Chef Season 19 as one of the cheftestants in 2022 and later appeared on the Food Network on Battle of the Decades where she won her episode. She is now focusing on building the brand of Tartsde Feybesse, a modern pastry shop that focuses on French rooted pastries with high technique and vision along with private events curated to her style of Filipino heritage and European technique. Monique has recently been nominated as a semifinalist of the James Beard Awards 2025 for the category of “Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker”‍

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