Chef Sammy Davis

"To say that I came from humble beginnings would be an understatement, I came from horrible beginnings..." Excerpt from the forthcoming book by Celebrity Chef Sammy Davis titled "CHOPPED AND CHEWED". As if being born to a teenage heroin addict wasn't enough, years later Chef Davis lost his father to a brutal and senseless murder. At the age of 8 Davis was sent to live with a relatives who instead of helping, just poured more fuel on the fire by abusing he and his sister. Both grew very tired of the abuse and left the home to seek refuge in the streets of North Philly where he was exposed to and faced every type of life changing situation you could endure. By chance the young teenage Chef Sammy happened upon a restaurant looking for any type of work he could find. One restaurant gave him a chance working as a dishwasher for $20 a day, with this meager living Chef Sammy managed to provide and take care of himself. Determined that his life wouldn't have the same end as his father he embraced the restaurant business and it embraced him. " In some weird type of way you could say that Restaurants saved my life". His story is a story of Redemption how fitting is it for him to come back and win the Latest season of CHOPPED REDEMPTION and establish himself as one of the best in the culinary world.

After working in New York City's AMY RUTH'S COMMUNE and a brief stint at NOBU NY under chef Nobu where he learned the art of using fresh fish daily. Davis fell under the guidance of Chef Phenom Jeffrey Slade. Chef Davis and also worked under Chef Roy Yamagucci (Roys) where he worked his way up from dishwasher to executive sous chef, Chef Nobu (NOBU NY) where he learned the art of using fresh fish daily, chef KochiChiba, ranked #1 Kaseki chef (tapas) by USA TODAY

Chef Sammy won D.C.'s BEST MAIN DISH. Davis is also the brains and consultant behind some very well known restaturants such as, CR LOUNGE (CREAM LOUNGE), THE RESERVE, MILAN and AZUL17 just to name a few. The new Mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was quoted as saying, "His talent and food is some of the best, we are glad to now have him in our city."

Chef Davis has won many awards in Atlanta, including "Best Tapas" 2006 and has several apperances on GOOD DAY ATLANTA, which is good because that is where he plans to pick up from, "...right where I left off at... I feel like Im back!"