About Chef Brian

I started my cooking career where I was born and raised in Sonoma County, California. My hometown of Healdsburg has been for decades a hub of excellent bistros, restaurants and delis serving local, pastured, foraged, farm-to-table and heirloom organic foods. Many of the establishments I worked with and supported in Sonoma County focused on ingredient quality, technique and authenticity. Those have been the main influences on my own development as a Chef in the twenty years I have progressed through my career in food-service. I do my best to apply those influences whatever my environment, for whoever I am serving. It is a practice in making the best food possible, and continuing to develop as a professional Chef.

I began catering in Sonoma County about a decade ago doing contract work as an Event Chef with a variety of local small businesses and wineries, and for a time in a corporate Chef Manger position with Compass Group. I have personally managed events serving groups of single families to 300+ guests, with a variety of menus prepared specifically for individual clients. I have significant experience with fine-dinning menus, but am most inclined towards preparing home-style and traditional foods. I believe those are the best ways I can deliver high value and honest meals for clients.

About four years ago, I purchased a small piece of property north of Reno with long term aims to make the area my new home and start a catering company serving the Truckee/Reno/Tahoe areas. After a three year stint working with a resort housing community in Truckee, I decided it was time to start Kind Catering and Events to resume my “right livelihood” in catering, with genuine kindness for others, offering quality foods and beverages for living well.  

Brian Scott Gilbaugh