Moncef Meddeb (died March 26, 2019) was an American chef and founder of L'Espalier Boston's first Le Cordon Bleu restaurant.
[1] Meddeb, the son of Tunisian immigrants, grew up in Paris.
He met Suzanne Owen, a Peace Corps volunteer, while he was in Tunis and working in a bank.
He attended the University of Connecticut before transferring to Harvard College and graduating with a political science degree.
[3] He opened the restaurant 8 Holyoke in Cambridge and Aigo Bistro in Concord, Massachusetts where he hired Ana Sortun.