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Elizabeth Blau is the founder and CEO of restaurant development company Blau + Associates and is widely credited with transforming Las Vegas into the world-class culinary destination it is today. Blau is recognized a leading industry innovator for transforming iconic properties around the world such as the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center and her work creating the restaurant portfolios at both Bellagio and Wynn which forever transformed the food and beverage philosophy of the city. A judge on CNBC's Restaurant Startup, she also operates several restaurants in Las Vegas and Vancouver with her husband chef Kim Canteenwalla. Blau and Canteenwalla co-authored "Honey Salt: A Culinary Scrapbook," which was named Best Cookbook of 2018 by Food & Beverage Magazine.
Chef Kim Canteenwalla provides a diverse range of international expertise with more than 30 years of culinary and industry leadership. He has led restaurants and resorts around the world including Singapore, Thailand, Dubai, Bali, Toronto, and Montreal, and is the former Executive Chef for MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Along with wife Elizabeth Blau, Kim is the Chef-Owner of the acclaimed Las Vegas restaurant Honey Salt and managing partner of Buddy V's Ristorante at the Venetian. In 2017, Kim conceptualized and developed multiple world-class food and beverage outlets in Vancouver, Canada which he continues to operate today.