Chloe Coscarelli
Chloe Kay Coscarelli, born October 14, 1987, in Los Angeles, is a vegan chef and author. She grew up in Pacific Palisades and studied at UC Berkeley and the National Gourmet Institute in New York City, where a summer internship at Millennium sparked her love of cooking and led to further study at the Natural Gourmet Institute.
Coscarelli became the first vegan to win a televised culinary competition when she won Cupcake Wars with vegan cupcakes. She was named to Forbes' 2017 Class of 30 Under 30.
From 2020 to 2022, Whole Foods partnered with her to create prepared vegan Thanksgiving meals, and in 2022 Club Med partnered with her to offer vegan meals at its all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and the Caribbean. In 2023, she was featured by Tasting Table as one of 21 plant-based chefs you need to know, and VegNews highlighted her as a top creator shaping vegan cuisine.
In 2015, Coscarelli helped launch By Chloe, a vegan fast-casual restaurant in New York's West Village. The concept grew to multiple locations across the U.S., but in 2017 she was ousted from the company amid a dispute with ESquared Hospitality. By Chloe filed for bankruptcy in 2020, and in 2021 it was acquired and rebranded as Beatnic. In 2024, Coscarelli announced a new vegan restaurant named CHLOE in Greenwich Village, opening at the original By Chloe site.
Coscarelli has written four cookbooks: Chloe's Kitchen (2012), Chloe's Vegan Desserts (2013), Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen (2014), and Chloe Flavor (2018). Her desserts book was named one of the 16 best vegan cookbooks of 2023 by Food & Wine, and VegNews listed both Chloe's Kitchen and Chloe's Vegan Desserts among the Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time in 2024. She is the daughter of filmmaker Don Coscarelli.
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