Our guest is award-winning Chef Cory Oppold, former winner of Food Network’s Chopped, and owner of Course, a fine dining restaurant in Scottsdale that just won “Emerging Restaurant of the Year”. At Course, “Chef Cory Oppold and his culinary team take you on a food exploration through an explosion of both your taste and visual senses, using seasonality of products and a progression of flavor.”
Cory’s prior positions include teaching at the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Executive Chef at Tarbell's restaurant in Phoenix and Executive Chef at Atlas Bistro. His childhood was spent on an dairy farm in a small town in Illinois. It wasn't until he came to Arizona to study architecture that Cory first encountered fine dining and the experience led him to enroll at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute where he graduated with honors in 2002.
Today, Corey was able to transition his upscale catering and event dining company Course into a full-service restaurant in early 2023. Cory’s innovative spirit makes his dishes not only creative delights, but also accessible in many different dining experiences. “I believe a menu is everything a chef wants to say at that time and moment and it’s hard for us to tell our story with one dish. That is why every guest gets multiple courses while experiencing my cuisine,” says Chef Cory.
Open Tuesday - Saturday for dinner and Sundays for brunch.
Follow Cory here:
https://courserestaurantaz.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-oppold-a56704113
https://www.instagram.com/chefcoryoppold/