Chefs

Jinhee Lee

Raw Bar by Duncan Ly

Calgary

Jinhee Lee is native of South Korea and moved to Calgary a few years ago to study at SAIT’s professional cooking program. Jinhee worked at Belgo before working her way up the ranks at Hotel Arts resulting in her current role as Sous Chef of Raw Bar by Duncan Ly.

During her time at Hotel Arts, Jinhee has participated in many chef collaborations and competitions including AGC Cooks and the Fetzer Appetizer Challenge where she helped the team to win gold for both events. She won the Stampede Dueling Chefs Competition in July 2012 competing against the city’s top female chefs in an intense black box Iron Chef style competition. She also won the coveted Media Food Critic Award at AGC Cooks in 2013.

Jinhee has been an invaluable support for Executive Chef Duncan Ly in numerous competitions helping him to win top prize at Gold Medal Plates Calgary Competition and helping him earn silver at the 2014 Canadian Culinary Championships.

Under Chef Ly’s leadership, Jinhee is introducing diners to exciting new flavours with the Vietmodern menu at Raw Bar by Duncan Ly.

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