Resort Champlain, a Curio Assortment by Hilton, is happy to announce two current appointments to the Resort Champlain Meals and Beverage workforce, Kenzie Allen to Government Chef and Israel Prado Rivas to Meals & Beverage Director. Each Allen and Rivas carry a wealth of expertise and a robust collaborative historical past, having beforehand labored collectively on the Viewline Resort in Snowmass. Their mixed experience will assist lead the resort’s imaginative and prescient to carry new and thrilling meals and beverage presents to visitors and locals in Burlington.
Kenzie Allen joins the Resort Champlain workforce with over a decade of culinary expertise. Allen is passionately inventive in terms of butchery and traditional French and American cooking methods. She beforehand served as Government Chef at famend eating places, together with Due Forni Italian Kitchen in Austin, earlier than she headed West to open STK, and Rooftop STK in San Diego. Most lately, Allen performed a key function in reopening JRDN restaurant at Tower 23 Resort, the place she took over full menu management throughout the rebrand. An completed butcher and connoisseur of traditional French and American methods, Allen plans to include her experience and every day inspirations into her delicacies as she embarks on her new function at Resort Champlain because the Government Chef of Lily Might’s and the banquet & particular occasions workforce.
“We’re excited to welcome two very proficient workers members becoming a member of our workforce at Resort Champlain,” says Justin Chapman, Normal Supervisor at Resort Champlain. “We’re trying ahead to seeing the inventive and modern aptitude Kenzie shall be bringing to the Resort Champlain workforce. As for Israel, along with his huge expertise, we all know our workforce has discovered a fantastic chief to herald new and recent concepts for all of the F&B elements of our fantastic newly renovated resort.”
Resort Champlain accomplished the transition to a Curio Assortment property, a part of the Hilton portfolio, in the summertime of 2024. The transformation included a $30-million property large renovation together with new visitor rooms, seafood restaurant, all-day-cafe, and state-of-the-art health middle. Resort Champlain is enthusiastic about displaying visitors and locals its dedication to supporting native Burlington and Vermont companies. In doing so, the resort has partnered with manufacturers equivalent to Native Maverick, a platform that highlights native Vermont companies, to open Maverick Market at Resort Champlain. The market will supply quite a lot of objects and snacks from native companies in Burlington and across the state.
