Featured Chef - Chef Adam Navidi

Fine Dining Chef de Cuisine
Chef Adam Navidi's Signature Catering AND Hyatt Regency
Huntington Beach, CA

Chef Adam Navidi’s Signature Catering is eponymous for a very good reason; Chef Adam has ambitions to become a legend in his own time on his home turf.  An Orange County native, Adam enrolled in professional cooking classes at age 15, putting his skills to the test as a prep and pantry cook in the kitchen of a popular chain restaurant.

Lured by his sense of adventure and love of snowboarding, he moved to Colorado and then to eastern Oregon, following the snow and supporting himself by cooking in the kitchens of the best chefs along the way.  Reaching Seattle, he studied at the Seattle Culinary Institute, while interning at leading Seattle restaurants, including Watersedge.  After a brief stint in the Bend, OR country club circuit, he realized home was near family and California’s agricultural bounty and innovative cuisine. Prior to starting his own business, Adam kept pace with the industry as a catering chef, and as a student of Jean Louis Palladin, who taught him the principle of cooking with the freshest seasonal ingredients.

Spanish CocktailSince the launch of Chef Adam Navidi’s Signature Catering (“Catchy California Cuisine”) and his appointment as Fine Dining Chef de Cuisine at The Californian Restaurant in the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach, Adam’s cooking has attracted the attention of Orange County society and the local press.  In 2004, OCMetro named him one of “10 Top OC Chefs Under 30,” and the premier issue of Best of OC ranked him among the “Top 6 Chefs of OC.” (Always prescient, when asked about the latest culinary buzzword in OC culinary circles, Adam had one word to say: honey!) In 2007, OC Homes featured his “black and white” catering menu in a feature on black tie dining.

Spanish Cocktail

Adam devised his Spanish Cocktail morsels as a fanciful nod to the tapas tradition for his catering menus.  It also serves as a perfect amuse bouche for his white tablecloth clientele at The Californian.