Chefs and Restaurants

Elizabeth Blau and Michael Mina on Managing Cross-Continent Concepts

Michael Harlan Turkell

Restaurateur Elizabeth Blau, founder of Blau + Associates, got her start in Las Vegas three decades ago. Today, she owns and consults on dozens of restaurants around the world, from Dallas to Dubai. In fact, it was she who enticed the equally prolific Michael Mina to Sin City, when the chef opened an outpost of his San Francisco seafood palace Aqua. Today, Mina operates more than 30...