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Chef Perry Pollaci
Perry Pollaci’s long experience in the culinary industry includes cooking in a wide variety of restaurants under some of the country’s best-known and capable chefs—from Michael Mina to Geoffrey Zakarian—who served as mentors. Most recently, Pollaci helped relaunch The Royce Wood-Fired Steakhouse at the venerable Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Along his journey, Pollaci competed in two seasons of The Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen, winning the challenge for “Life’s a Mystery…Meat” in 2014 and the 1960s episode in Spring 2016 as part of the show’s “Time Warp Tournament” for past champions. He is the Executive Chef of Castaway in Burbank.