Grant Achatz

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791 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Grant Achatz (award-winning chef) · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Because I'm like, if I reach back in there, what if he sees me?

Yeah.

Not that big.

So Chef Taylor took it over in 94.

So it only opened a couple of years under him.

After I left Trotters, I went to Europe.

And back then, France was where it was at.

It moved down to Spain and other places, but then it was France.

So I'm like, okay, we'll go to the holy land of food.

And very disappointed.

Every meal I had was not good.

So now I'm really lost.

If Trotters was the pinnacle, and that didn't work, I'm going to go try to find it elsewhere, and that didn't work.

I came home and I was a bit lost.

And I, once again, researched a bunch of restaurants and found the French Laundry.

And was like, okay, it's in Napa.

Worst case scenario, maybe I'll make wine.

There's a lot of restaurants there.

And wrote him a letter, similarly.

He called me up and he was like, you're either batshit crazy...

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