Andrew Scott Zimmern (born July 4, 1961) is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman,[5] food critic, and author.

[7] For his work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, he was presented the James Beard Foundation Award four times: in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017.

[14] Zimmern's mother was a college roommate of the founder of the Trader Vic's restaurant chain, which he said he would frequent in high school.

Zimmern worked at several fine dining restaurants in New York as either executive chef or general manager.

[16][17] He later gained wide acclaim during his four-and-a-half-year tenure as executive chef of Café Un Deux Trois in Minneapolis's Foshay Tower.

[18] His menus received the highest ratings from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, and Mpls.

Zimmern has served as SuperTarget's meal adventure guide, sharing his passion for ethnic foods with supermarket customers around the country.

He was the food and lifestyle features reporter during the 1997 season of the UPN network's nationally televised Everyday Living.

In the fall of 2002, he was an honored guest of the People's Republic of China, traveling, lecturing, and giving demonstrations on Chinese cuisine.

[19] He is also the author of Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Foods, released by Feiwel & Friends on October 30, 2012.

His latest book is a grade-level reader series called Alliance of World Explorers, Volume 1: AZ and the Lost City of Ophir and was released in February 2019.