Bryan Showalter has been appointed Executive Chef at Hyatt Centric Mountain View
Hyatt Centric Mountain View, slated to open mid-July, announces an executive leadership team with more than eight decades of combined hospitality experience. OTO Development, part of The Johnson Group, is developing and will manage the new hotel. Bryan Showalter has been named executive chef of Fairchilds Public House, the hotel's restaurant and bar.
Executive Chef Bryan Showalter got his industry start as a busboy at a café in the Detroit suburbs, and he's been in food and beverage ever since. After studying culinary arts at Oakland Community College and Schoolcraft College, Showalter has thrived in a career that has taken him to top-tier hotel restaurants across the continental United States as well as Hawaii.
"I'm a foodie at heart, with a passion for creating dishes with locally sourced ingredients, and Fairchilds Public House will be all about bringing California flair to everyone's favorite fare," says Showalter, who most recently worked as executive restaurant chef at the Grand Wailea in Maui.
Showalter has designed "loCALI"-flavored menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as happy hour, with a beverage program drawing mainly from regional breweries and wineries. Fairchilds' indoor and outdoor spaces will include a lively bar and intimate lounge, a fresh-air veranda with firepit, a breakfast lounge, dinner seating, and a group dining room for up to 48 people. ViewOn2 will offer cabana-style drinks and dishes on the 2nd floor terrace with views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
