Meet Yigit Pura Executive Pastry Chef at Global Gourmet Catering


Luke Naro, Yigit Pura 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at San Francisco

Last night, boyfriend-seeking SF pastry chef Yigit Pura came under the scrutiny of Patti Stanger on Bravo's dating series The Millionaire Matchmaker, and we tuned in so we could recap the action.


Yigit Pura's Tout Sweet expands to Palo Alto Eat, Drink, Play

Yigit Pura Continues To Impress, Both in the Kitchen and Community. After winning Top Chef Just Desserts on Bravo, Yigit Pura's life has been one exciting ride; with an insanely successful Pâtisserie in San Francisco, upcoming book releases and a full schedule of events and activities, I was fortunate for he and I to both find time to sit.


Yigit Pura and Anna A Gutsy Girl®

Executive Pastry Chef Yigit Pura of Taste Catering & Event Planning, the recent Top Chef Just Desserts winner, prepares a dark chocolate ganache tart with chewy caramel, sea salt and cocoa nibs on.


Chef Yigit Pura’s Tiny Colorful Kitchen The Kitchn

Yigit Pura is best known for winning the first season of Top Chef Just Desserts. Most recently he is in the midst of opening his first ever patisserie, Tout Sweet, in San Francisco. His home kitchen is tiny yet colorful, cheerful, and completely efficient. Come take a peek! Yigit spends so much time in executive-sized kitchens, thinking, eating, and practically sleeping food. At home his.


Top Chef Yigit Pura Visits John’s Beautiful Kitchen The Kitchn

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Top Chef Yigit Pura Visits John’s Beautiful Kitchen The Kitchn

October 29, 2018 / thomaskelleher. Global Gourmet is pleased to announce the recent addition to our staff of Yigit Pura as our new Executive Pastry Chef. Growing up in Turkey, Yigit (rhymes with 'sweet') Pura was surrounded by the idea that the kitchen wasn't a place for men. When his family moved to California, they encouraged him to.


Newsom Declares Yigit Pura Day, Yigit Madness Ensues Eater SF

Yigit Pura. Photo courtesy of Frankeny Images. After winning the first season of Top Chef Desserts, pastry dynamo Yigit Pura set his sights on opening his own Tout Sweet Pâtisserie.The sweet shop is full of treats from caramels, croissants, macarons (named after his favorite folks, including 7x7 editor Chloe Harris Frankeny), marshmallows, cakes and other confitures and marks a partnership.


Purchase Yigit Pura's Thanksgiving Tarts for Charity Eater SF

Celebrity chef Yigit Pura is now the executive pastry chef for GlobalGourmet Catering, which provides customized cuisine to many of the BayArea's top performing arts venues, including the San.


Sunset's Celebration Weekend Yigit Pura Demos and Shares ThaiHawaiian

Saturday, May 11, 2019. Yigit Pura's dessert dishes are almost too pretty to eat. SARATOGA, Calif. (KGO) -- The Sips with Spencer crew recently visited The Mountain Winery and caught up with.


Yigit Pura’s Modern Condo In The City Apartment Therapy

Yigit Pura is a sugar fiend . . . and a pastry dynamo! His striking desserts have sparked excitement and devotion throughout his career, from the top pastry kitchens of New York and San Francisco to the winner's podium on Top Chef: Just Desserts.His sugar showcase is Tout Sweet Patisserie, his pâtisserie and dessert laboratory on San Francisco's Union Square.


Yigit Pura’s Modern Condo In The City Apartment Therapy

If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. In 2011, Pura, 34, won the national televised cooking competition Top Chef Desserts. Today he's the owner and executive chef behind Tout Sweet Patisserie in San Francisco's Union Square. The store opened in 2012, with a second, satellite location in Palo Alto added last winter.


22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at San Francisco Marriott Marquis 3

March 07 2013 1:57 PM EST. We told you about Yigit Pura's latest venture, Tout Sweet, and his fancy cakes for same-sex wedding couples. Then we told you that he was one of the 100 Most Eligible.


Weekend E.A.T Made with Love

Top Chef: Just Desserts winner, Yigit Pura, spoke to us about his new dessert shop Tout Sweet opening in S.F.'s Union Square. He hopes to open a couple of lo.


Meet Yigit Pura Executive Pastry Chef at Global Gourmet Catering

Yigit Pura: I didn't initially start out in culinary. I actually studied business first. I come from a very Turkish background, and when I was a kid and would try to help in the kitchen my mom.


BeeCake Yigit Pura

The Turkish-born pastry chef pulled it all together to become Top Chef 's first gay winner!


Meet Yigit Pura Executive Pastry Chef at Global Gourmet Catering

Yigit Pura was the fan favorite and Top Chef winner of Season 1 of Top Chef Just Desserts. 29 year-old Yigit Pura began his culinary training at the age of four in Ankara, Turkey while helping his mom make spoonfuls of dark caramel. His official culinary training began didn't begin until the age of 20, but he soon landed a position at Le Cirque 2000 in New York City, and moved shortly after to.

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