Concentrics Restaurants and Richard Blais recently announced that Adrian Villareal will be joining the culinary team at The Spence. Inspired first in his family’s kitchen in Mexico and later educated at Le Cordon Bleu Paris, Villarreal brings years of international experience and classic training to The Spence.
Villarreal gained experience working at both Paris’Le Doyenne and La Maree. From Paris, he found his way to Atlanta where he officially launched his career at Joël. Prior to the Spence, Villarreal was the Executive Chef of Atlanta’s TAP.
The Spence is slated to open in May and is being designed by The Johnson Studio, an international restaurant architecture firm known for its unique designs of Atlanta’s TWO urban licks, The Royce in Pasadena, CA, Chicago’s TRU restaurant, New York’s Del Frisco’s Grille, Costa Rica’s Hotel Grano de Oro, Fearing’s in Dallas, Tahoe’s Manzanita, and more.
