Meet the gay chef who built a world-renowned restaurant in a tiny Virginia town
O'Connell traces the restaurant’s rise from a former garage to a Michelin-starred destination and details the personal history behind his first memoir.
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A Doctor Labeled Patrick O’Connell a ‘Delusional Smart-Ass’ As a Kid — It Freed Him to Dream
Patrick O’Connell, the legendary chef behind the Inn at Little Washington, reflects on a lifetime of defying expectations, realizing his dreams, and finally revealing the secrets and experiences that shaped him in a new memoir, ‘Main, Middle & Gay: A Chef Finds His Place in the World Against All Odds.’
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Out MagazineMeet the gay chef who built a world-renowned restaurant in a tiny Virginia town
This story originally appeared on Out.Patrick O’Connell has spent nearly five decades turning a tiny Virginia town named Washington into the kind of place food lovers and travelers plan an entire trip around. In 1978, the self-taught chef opened The Inn at Little Washington in a former garage. Today, the Michelin-starred restaurant and Relais & Châteaux hotel is an internationally renowned destination, shaped as much by O’Connell’s highly person…
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