Greg & Gabi Denton

OX    Bistro Agnes

Greg Denton and Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton

• 2017 winners James Beard Foundation: Best Chef Northwest
• 2014 Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs

Born in Schenectady, New York and raised in Rutland, Vermont, Greg knew he wanted to be a chef from age four. He started working in kitchens at age nine. Gabrielle’s passion for food developed at a young age as well, during summers spent in her grandmother’s kitchen in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.

Both Greg and Gabrielle graduated from culinary school with honors, Greg in 1996 from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Gabrielle in 1999 from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco.

Together, the two chefs opened the Argentine-inspired Ox Restaurant in April of 2012, and their new Parisian-style French bistro, called Bistro Agnes, in January of 2018 in Portland, Oregon. They also released their debut cookbook, Around the Fire, in March 2016 (published by Ten Speed Press), to critical acclaim.

Ox Restaurant serves Argentine-inspired Portland food. Ox and the Denton’s have received the following recognition:

• 2013 The Oregonian’s Restaurant of the Year
• 2013 semi-finalists James Beard Foundation: Best Chef Northwest, and Best New Restaurant in America
• 2013, 2014 semi-finalists James Beard Foundation: Best Chef Northwest
• 2015, 2016 finalists James Beard Foundation: Best Chef Northwest
• Winner of Esquire Channel’s Knife Fight 2014, Battle Eel, Greg Denton vs. Jason Wilson
• 
Top 50 Best New Restaurants by Bon Appétit Magazine
• 2012 Portland Restaurant of the Year Award by Eater.com

Bistro Agnes

• 2018 Oregonian’s Top Ten Best New Restaurants