"No Texas restaurant is more passionately local than Chef Monica Pope's new venture, t'afia." Gourmet Magazine, January 2005 CHEF MONICA POPE • James Beard Award Nominee, Best Chef/Southwest, 2007 • The only Texas woman chef to be named a Top 10 Best New Chef by Food & Wine Magazine, 1996 “A
…s a chef, I have spent the last 13 years cooking in one place – Houston, Texas. My cooking style has developed organically from certain fundamental truths: first, what grows together goes together, and, second, that food simply tastes better when you eat where your food lives. For over ten years, I have supported local farmers, ranchers and food producers, and also helped found the Midtown Farmers Market (held at t'afia every Saturday)- these producers' efforts form the heart and soul of t'afia."Continued