L'etoile Restaurant & Cafe Soleil

Chef Tory grew up working in his grandparents' diner in Racine, Wisconsin before moving to New York to attend the French Culinary Institute and work his way through some of the cities' finest kitchens, including Bill Telepan's JUdson Grill and Eleven Madison Park. A true Wisconsinite at heart, he returned to Madison to begin working under his mentor, Odessa Piper, at L'Etoile.

Here he found his true passion for local food through the Dane County Farmers' Market. After taking over L'Etoile in 2005 from Odessa, Tory opened his 2nd restaurant, Graze, in 2010, and his 3rd, Sujeo (now closed) in 2014, as a way to provide local-sourced cuisine to a larger audience in the Madisonian dining scene.