SF Restaurants, Food & Drink With Shakewell, Onetime 'Top Chef' Contestants Jen Biesty and Tim Nugent May Be Starting A Mini Oakland Empire With the announcement today of the Season 12 cast of Bravo's long-running Top Chef, it seems appropriate to take a moment to look in on a pair of former cheftestants from the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alum Jen Biesty To Open Shakewell Bar & Kitchen In Oakland Local chef Jen Biesty and her partner in (pastry) crime Tim Nugent have nailed down a location near Oakland's Grand Lake district for a new Mediterranean-influenced, "Americlectic" spot they're called Shakewell Bar &