Dante Fried Chicken is a gem in cuisine and culture led by the chef, filmmaker, visionary and charismatic host, DFC. That’s Dante Gonzales, man and brand behind Dante Fried Chicken. The whole DFC team shares his cuisine with the world through signature events, pop up restaurants, an award-winning food truck and it’s very own homegrown variety cooking show.

Dante travelled across the US growing up, working and living throughout Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and journeys from coast to coast. His early  family time was filled with the stories and recipes from his grandmother Jean as the centerpiece of food thinking. She taught him the craft of cooking with whole and natural foods, the art properly frying chicken and slow cooking. He took those skills through the rigorous restaurant business and left it all behind to do his own thing in music and film.

Years later while working in film production, DFC came back to cooking and began building his own menu off the heritage American Southern stylings along with the Latin, Carribean and Asian influence that surrounded him at a loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He shared it at small parties bringing together artists, musicians, actors, designers and New Yorkers of all backgrounds in his home and featured performances by up and coming artists. The invitation went out the day before to the coolest kids in the city, for the Sunday night dinner. Then it grew, too big for the house, and travelled around underground venues throughout the city. It was from there the word spread on the “Dante dinner party.”

The buzz continued for a few years following, where Dante took his variety show dinner party through Europe and produced a full length television pilot. It all came full circle back to New York where Dante began to build the team and take the next big step. They decided to crack the code in Los Angeles on the exploding food truck craze. In Summer of 2010, DFC launched a 10 day secret fried chicken delivery service in NYC, to raise money to invest in a truck in LA. The hype from the campaign landed the crew in the all the high end food publications and airtime on the Cooking Channel’s Foodography show hosted by Mo Rocca. It was only three short months later after the truck hit the road that it won Thrillist’s Best of the Best Food Truck award in Los Angeles.

In it’s current state, you can find DFC popping up restaurants across the globe, building and catering high end events with amazing clients, and head down writing a cookbook set to release for the holiday season 2012.

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