David Kinch (born April 4, 1961) is an
American Chef-Proprietor who operates
Manresa, a restaurant in
Los Gatos, California, which has been awarded two
Michelin stars for six consecutive years, and three stars in 2016. Manresa has been named one of the
World’s 50 Best Restaurants by
Restaurant Magazine, was in America’s Top 50 Restaurants by
Gourmet magazine, and has received four stars from The
San Francisco Chronicle. He is also dean at The
International Culinary Center, founded as The
French Culinary Institute in 1984. Kinch is a winner of the Best Chef in America award for the Pacific region from the
James Beard Foundation as well as GQ's Chef of the Year for 2011. Kinch's California cuisine has strong
French,
Catalan and
Japanese influences. Kinch opened a second restaurant in Los Gatos, CA called "Bywater," on January 12, 2016.