Sascha Weiss
Executive Chef, The Plant Café Organic
Member since 2010
Sascha Weiss is the Executive Chef of San Francisco’s The Plant Café Organic, a three-unit restaurant serving fresh, wholesome foods all day. The Plant is exemplary for its dedication to local and organic produce, affordable prices, sustainable building materials, eco-conscious business practices, and an eclectic menu of globally inspired dishes, many vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free.
Sascha’s extensive background in natural food comes together at The Plant. He attended the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City and worked as Executive Pastry Chef at Millennium in San Francisco, a vegan fine dining restaurant, and contributed to the restaurant’s first cookbook. He has been the Pastry Chef at Roxanne's, a raw food restaurant, Sous Chef at the Ravens in Mendocino, Private Chef for George Lucas, and owned and operated Urban Kitchen, a natural foods catering company in Berkeley, CA. Sascha is also an ongoing culinary instructor in the Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts program at Bauman College in the Bay Area. His recipes have been featured in numerous publications.