Tyler Florence (born March 3, 1971) is an American chef and television host of several Food Network shows.
He graduated from the College of Culinary Arts at the Charleston, South Carolina, campus of Johnson & Wales University in 1991.
Florence serves on the board of the national nonprofit Afterschool Alliance, an organization that works to promote and to support quality after-school programs.
Florence also created a podcast called Wolf it Down where he interviewed several players in the food and tech space.
[5] In 2009 he opened a small chain of luxury kitchen supply stores in Northern California and developed four new restaurant concepts for the area: Wayfare Tavern in downtown San Francisco (formerly, Rubicon restaurant); Rotisserie & Wine (closed), a fast food restaurant in downtown Napa; with Sammy Hagar, El Paseo (closed) in downtown Mill Valley, California, an American tavern featuring ingredients only from Marin County;[6] and a new modern American steak house, Miller & Lux that was opened as part of San Francisco's Chase Center and a new location at the Four Seasons Hualalai Resort.