Geoffrey Zakarian (born July 25, 1959) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author.

William Grimes of The New York Times described Zakarian as "the reason that 44 in the Royalton Hotel was always a lot better than it needed to be" in 2001.

[10] In 1998, he became the executive chef at Patroon in Manhattan, which was awarded three stars (excellent) by New York Times critic Ruth Reichl.

In the spring of 2000, Zakarian worked with Alain Passard, a renowned French chef at the three-Michelin star restaurant Arpège in Paris.

Town was located on the East Side of midtown Manhattan in the Chambers Hotel and opened in spring 2001 but closed in 2009.

[16] Trump sued Zakarian in August 2015 for a sum "in excess of $10 million" for lost rent and other damages.

He has appeared numerous times on Food Network's Chopped series as a judge with fellow restaurateurs Scott Conant, Chris Santos, Aarón Sánchez, Amanda Freitag, Marcus Samuelsson, Marc Murphy, Maneet Chauhan, and Alex Guarnaschelli since the show began.

[8] Zakarian competed as a challenger on Iron Chef America in May 2010 facing Masaharu Morimoto and lost with a score of 57 to 43.

[18] Zakarian was named the winner of The Next Iron Chef in December 2011, defeating Elizabeth Falkner in the season finale.

In January 2014, he became a co-host on the Food Network's series The Kitchen along with Jeff Mauro, Katie Lee, Marcela Valladolid, and Sunny Anderson.