NATALIE

The daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant, Natalie is a culinary arts and business honors graduate of Drexel University. She has extensive experience leading and opening acclaimed restaurants as well as consulting with restaurants across the Philadelphia area. Natalie was a very popular participant on Bravo TV's Top Chef and is highly respected in the food community. She grew up in Virginia but definitely calls Philly, her city! Natalie's in love with her doggies, Wilma and Tucker and bikes, everywhere... In June of 2017, Natalie Maronski and DEL (Robert Del Femine) had the spark of an idea to create a curated intersection of food, music, and culture in the iconic, historically registered, and first racially integrated hotel in America - the Divine Lorraine. Oh, by the way, it had been vacant, a destination for urban explorers, and stripped down to its foundational bones - first laid in 1894... Undaunted, well maybe a bit, their vision fit perfectly with the Divine's owner Eric..