A South Jersey native, Chef Britt Rescigno’s passion for food and community has been a life-long love affair. Chef Britt’s childhood home sits next door to her grandparent’s restaurant, Allen’s Clam Bar, where she fell in love with North Atlantic seafood and fresh ingredients from the gardens and farms of New Jersey. She did prep at the restaurant before school and throughout her childhood until becoming a line cook at the age of thirteen where she began to hone her skills as a chef.

Chef Britt attended the acclaimed Culinary Institute of America, graduating in 2009 before completing an externship at the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club under Bill Brodksy. Her culinary career has since taken her to California where she worked as the Sous Chef at Scratch; helped open and manage Nom Burger; developed culinary concepts at Tap’t Beer and Kitchen, and created underground popup concept, Nox Farm to Table, before returning to her East Coast roots as the Executive Chef at Delaware Avenue Oyster House in Long Beach Island, NJ. Since 2022, Chef Britt has traveled extensively as a consulting and pop up chef, organizing dinners and events from coast to coast. 

Chef Britt has competed on numerous Food Network culinary competitions, winning Chopped in 2019 and coming in second on Chopped Champions in 2020. She besting Bobby flay with her grandmother’s chicken and dumplings in 2019, and took on Alex Guernachelli in 2022 before winning the Guy’s Grocery Games TOC play-in where she cooked her way into the final four of Tournament of Champions, Season 4.