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JOHNNY EARLES
Executive Chef / Owner
Place of birth: Bogalusa, Louisiana
Married to Debbie Loomis Earles
One child Jonathan
- Opened Paradise Café, Grayton Beach, Florida 3/83
- Chef/Co-owner Paradise Café 3/83 to 12/87, featuring New
Orleans Creole Cuisine
- Paradise Café awarded Florida Trend Magazine's "Top 100
Restaurants" 1985-1987
- Built Criolla's Fall/Winter 1988, Opened Criolla's 2/89
Criolla's features fusion of New Orleans, Caribbean Creole
& other equatorial cuisines
CRIOLLA'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Distinguished Restaurants of North America Award 1996
through 2000
- Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 1995, 1996, & 1997
- Wine Spectator "Best Award of Excellence" 1998
- Florida Trend Magazine "Best Newcomer Restaurant" 1990
- Florida Trend's "Golden Spoon Award" 1991 through 2000
(Given to the state's top 20 restaurants)
CRIOLLA'S AND JOHNNY EARLES IS OFTEN
FEATURED IN:
- Southern Living Magazine
- Cook's Magazine
- Self Magazine
- Restaurant Business
- Food Arts
- Cook's Illustrated
- Nation's Restaurant News
- Atlanta Magazine
- New York Magazine
- Coastal Living Magazine
- The Atlanta Journal Constitution
- The New York Times
- U.S.A. Today
- CNN "On the Menu"
- The Discover Channel's "Great Chefs of the South"
Recipes have been published in the New York Times Magazine and
Simply Seafood as well as featured in most major southeastern
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