Doug Settle is a Southern California based chef with nearly 20 years of hospitality experience. Tracing his roots to the foot hills of the Appalachian mountains where gardening, hunting and fishing are a lifestyle, proper sourcing and appreciation for those who grow, raise and harvest our food is a deeply ingrained passion. Alongside this Doug pairs a drive for leadership and training honed by a decade of working with San Diego’s finest chefs and restauranteurs.
Notable Works
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“A West Coast local by way of Appalachia, chef Doug Settle's cuisine is rooted in fresh, flavorful and regeneratively farmed ingredients. While the chef operates out of The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, Settle also runs a tasting experience—Hearth & Harvest—in Oceanside.”
Adventure Journal Magazine
Tapping into his camping roots, Chef Doug worked with Adventure Journal Magazine creating breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes. These recipes focused on ingredients and techniques prime for cooking homestyle, live fire meals on your next camping adventure.
The Ecology CenterAfter opening Campesino Cafe, Doug is currently running culinary events with the 28 acre, Regenerative Organic Certified farm in Orange County, CA. Peek into what goes into dinners on the farm!
Hearth & Harvest
A collaboration between a classically trained chef and a Certified Nutrition Specialist with a culinary back ground, Hearth and Harvest is the birth of a long imagined project by Doug and his Fiancé Abby.
From pop-up ingredient driven dinners at local farms to consulting for a future that tastes better and heals the mind and body, Doug and Abby showcase how these too worlds are much more closely related than we realize. “We’re all in search of the same thing, be it for different reasons. Both the culinary community and the wellness spaces just want the best ingredients.”
