Barry Maiden is a native of Southwestern Virginia. While living in Nashville, he worked alongside Emile Labrousse, a renowned French chef and teacher. It was Labrousse who encouraged Barry to attend the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont.
As an extern, he was hired at L'Espalier, one of Boston's long-standing highly acclaimed French restaurants. During a five-year stint at Lumière, as Chef de Cuisine, Barry also began teaching at Boston University, where he is now a core instructor for the Culinary Arts program. In early 2008, he opened the beloved Hungry Mother (named after a state park in his birth town) located in Cambridge, MA. He was quickly named one of Food and Wine Magazine’s “Best New Chefs” in 2009.
In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious James Beard Award being named ‘Best Chef Northeast’.
