Philly Chef Omar Tate Makes the TIME100 Next List

Philadelphia Chef Omar Tate is one of 100 emerging leaders in the world, per the latest accolade celebrating the culinary innovator.

Chef Tate landed a spot on the TIME100 Next list alongside 2021 presidential inauguration poet Amanda Gorman, Uganda-based climate activist Vanessa Nakate and 16-year-old TikTok star Charli D’Amelio.

”Everyone on this list is poised to make history,” TIME100 Editorial Director Dan Macsai wrote of the remarkable honorees.

This honor is another in a growing list of praise for Tate, a Germantown native who got his start in Philadelphia hotel kitchens before working as a private chef, at the Smithsonian and running a highly lauded pop-up experience in New York before returning to his hometown. In Philadelphia, he’s continued his mission to represent contemporary Black America via pop-up culinary experiences and through his forthcoming Honeysuckle community center.

Honeysuckle, which Tate is developing with his wife and business partner Cybille St. Aude-Tate, will be a grocery shop, cafe, library, meat market and supper club honoring Black food. The multifaceted project is slated to open as a brick-and-mortar space in West Philadelphia later this year and supporters can still contribute to the project.

Tate and the Honeysuckle project have been making well-deserved headlines regularly, with Food & Wine magazine calling Honeysuckle one of the 15 most anticipated restaurants of 2021 and Esquire naming him Chef of the Year in 2020.

Currently, Tate is in upstate New York as a chef in residence at Blue Hill at Stone Barnes, a new program for chef Dan Barber’s ambitious farm-focused center that brings unique culinary perspectives to the Hudson River Valley.

Hear more from Tate in Season 1, Episode 23 of Visit Philly’s Love + Grit podcast.