Richard Jallet, Executive Chef, Baltimore Country Club

Born and raised in France, Richard Jallet began his culinary career with seasonal jobs in France and Switzerland after graduating from a very small technical college. He then moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to work at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where he learned under his mentor Chef Edward Merard and progressed from a demi-chef saucier to banquet chef and finally to sous chef.

Chef Jallet left Canada for the United States in 1988 to join the Hilton Hotels corporation. He worked for Hilton properties in Miami, Atlanta (where he was the youngest Executive Chef at the time within the organization), Washington, D.C., and finally Minneapolis.

After tiring of the corporate life, Chef Jallet decided to join the Minneapolis Club, a city club, for eight years. He then moved to Eldorado Country Club in Southern California for 10 years.

In 2014, Chef Jallet moved back to the East Coast to become Executive Chef of the Baltimore (Md.) Country Club, one of only 11 country clubs in the U.S. with two clubhouses (one in the city and the other in suburban Lutherville, Md.). Combined the two campuses have five kitchens, about three dozen employees and total F&B revenue of $6 million.