Despite his young age, Chef J.D. Silvey is a seventeen-year veteran of the hospitality business. Silvey worked in his family's restaurant and catering business as a teen-ager, planting the seeds of his future career, at Central Catering as Vice-President and Head Chef.

Silvey attended culinary school at Sullivan University, where he graduated with honors in a program based on traditional French cuisine, garde mange, modern cuisine, international cuisine, and baking and pastry.

Silvey's career has been marked by several distinguished opportunities around the world. One of these was being selected as one of twenty young chefs by Bon Appetit Magazine to help crew the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival in France. At Cannes, Silvey collaborated with such chefs at Tyler Florence, Mario Batali, and Todd English.

This past year, Silvey was selected by the Lexington Rotary Club and Rotary International for a group study exchange in Italy. In Venice, Silvey studied under four chefs at the upscale Hotel Cipriani which caters to such clientele as former President Bill Clinton and many other world dignitaries.

Silvey is a lifelong resident of Lexington and is deeply committed to his clients and their happiness. As Silvey has stated, his reputation is based on the quality of his work, and he would have nothing less than perfection!