Stephanie Izard, recipient of the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Great Lakes and Food & Wine’s Best New Chef, is the Executive Chef and Owner of Girl & the Goat, Little Goat, Duck Duck Goat, Cabra, and Lucky Goat in Chicagoland, along with Girl & the Goat and Valley Goat in California. Izard also won the coveted title of Iron Chef in 2017 and was the fourth winner of Bravo’s Top Chef. Izard jumped back into television in 2023 with the release of The Curious Chef, a Tastemade television series where she visits home cooks to get a taste of their time-honored recipes and traditions, alongside numerous appearances as both a competitor and a judge on shows including Tournament of Champions, Hell’s Kitchen, Superchef Grudge Match, Guy’s Grocery Games, Chopped, and more. A James Beard Best New Restaurant nominee, Girl & the Goat has been praised by high-profile publications such as Saveur, The New York Times, and Food & Wine. Little Goat Diner, Stephanie’s highly successful follow-up to Girl & the Goat, features classic Americana cuisine in a diner setting.

In March 2016, Stephanie opened her third restaurant, a Chinese-inspired concept called Duck Duck Goat. In 2019, Stephanie’s Peruvian-inspired eatery, Cabra, opened on the rooftop of The Hoxton, Chicago. Izard then expanded to the West Coast with Girl & the Goat in downtown Los Angeles and, more recently, Valley Goat in Silicon Valley. The latest addition to the Goat family is Lucky Goat, located within Chicagoland’s Hollywood Casino. Izard’s first book, Girl in the Kitchen, was released in 2011, and her second book, Gather & Graze, was released in April 2018.