Elijah Coe - Biography
Executive Chef, Newcastle
Executive Chef Elijah Coe began his culinary career at the young age of 13 in his native England at the quaint Water Front Restaurant in the historical town of Upnor on the Southeast coast of England.
Chef Coe graduated from Thanet School of Culinary Arts. After graduation, he joined the British Royal Navy where he became a chef for the Royal Family on Her Majesty's Yacht, Britannia. Chef Coe also worked at Buckingham Palace and traveled with various foreign services dignitaries, preparing meals for them and their guests throughout the world.
In 1998 Chef Coe arrived in New York where he worked for Restaurant Associates as chef of their commissary. He supervised a number of their most prestigious accounts including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History and Lincoln Center. During the time he spent in New York, Chef Coe worked with Wolfgang Puck on the 1999 Oscar Awards Dinner as well as the MTV Awards and the Grammy Awards.
Chef Coe relocated to Fort Worth, Texas as Chef of the City Club of Fort Worth and the prestigious Bass Family. He then joined Culinaire Inc at the Belo Mansion, a historic home built in the in the late 1800's by Colonel Alfred Horatio Belo, who founded the Dallas Morning News.
Chef Coe has moved closer to his family with a cooler, greener climate of Washington residing at The Golf Club at Newcastle