When I met Celebrity Chef Dale Talde in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood a few years ago, he told me about growing up watching his mother cook. Her best advice to her son as he embarked on his culinary career that includes a 2022 nomination for the James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York State?
“Don’t f-up the rice.”
At his Tigress restaurant on the rooftop of the recently-opened The Perry Hotel Naples, Talde hasn’t “f-upped’’ anything. Not only is his Cantonese chophouse among the newest high-profile eateries along Florida’s Paradise Coast, it might be the best.
Dale Talde…