Kyle Ketchum has been appointed Executive Chef at the Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel & Spa
Ketchum joins Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel & Spa following success with Ketchum Hospitality Group, a sole-proprietorship during which he consulted with restaurants and hotels throughout New England. Previously, Ketchum was Executive Chef at the acclaimed Spiced Pear at The Chanler at Cliffwalk. Before arriving in New England, Ketchum spent more than a decade at highly rated restaurants across the Midwest, including tenure as Executive Chef at The Lark in West Bloomfield, Michigan – Detroit’s only Mobil Four Star restaurant, where he was voted Best Chef in Michigan by Hour Magazine; Chef de Cuisine at the AAA Four Diamond-rated Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado; Sous Chef at The American Restaurant, Kansas City’s only Mobil Four Star restaurant; Sous Chef at Gold Lake Mountain Resort and Spa in Ward, Colorado; and Executive Sous Chef at Polo’s at the Fairmount Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Ketchum earned an Associate Degree in Culinary Arts and an Associate Degree in Restaurant Management from the Scottsdale Culinary Institute Le Cordon Bleu.
