Stephen Love Named Chef De Cuisine for Madison Beach Hotel

Madison Beach Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, a AAA Four Diamond Award-winning boutique resort and Top Performer for the Hilton brand, today announced that Stephen Love is named Chef De Cuisine.

Chef Love is a motivated culinarian with two decades of diverse hospitality experience. Most recently, Love served as Chef De Cuisine for Amarone Restaurant, a fine dining Italian restaurant on the Connecticut shoreline, where he was responsible for menu development and execution.

Prior to that, Chef Love was Sous Chef at The Standard Hotel High Line in New York City, 350-room Manhattan hotel in the Meat Packing District with three high-volume dining venues and room service. There he developed new recipes and oversaw training of a staff of sixty.

Chef Love was Executive Chef then promoted to General Manager for Sodexo at Terraces of Phoenix, AZ where he led training, ordering, inventory, catering, and day to day operations. He was Executive Chef at Sodexo at Plymouth Village in Redlands, CA; Executive Sous Chef for Sodexo at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA; and Sous Chef at Wine Cask, also in Santa Barbara.

Love is a Certified Executive Chef (ACF), a Certified Dietary Manager (ANFP), and specializes in classical cooking techniques with seasonal, cultural flavor fusion.

Chef Stephen Love’s culinary enthusiasm was cultivated at a young age where he grew up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. His greatest influences were his parents, Chefs Michael and Donna Love. His father was chef-owner, and his mother was a pastry chef who also worked as a hostess at local lakeside eateries.

Some of Chef Love’s earliest memories took place in restaurants, often sitting atop a milk crate picking twenty pounds of green beans.

“That was the daycare for me in the restaurant,” said Chef Love. “It's in my blood and, since then, I've worked my way up.”

When Love left home at age eighteen, he traveled to California. Working in restaurants and high-end establishments, he became an apprentice for and collaborator with many renowned culinarians including Chef Jeremy Tummel, Chef Scout Oullette, and Chef Greg Murphy.

Chef Love specializes in classic French methods and techniques, using seasonal ingredients while incorporating global culinary fusion. With an overarching Mediterranean base, he enjoys designing unique blends between French and other cultures, like Japanese, Chinese, Italian, or even Tex-Mex. Integrating this Mediterranean influence, he often works with seafood using fresh herbs and finding innovative ways to enhance flavor.

“My favorite dish to create has got to be risotto,” said Chef Love. “It takes so much care and attention. To make it perfect, you have to literally guide the cooking process for twenty-five minutes. You need to really understand how the rice kernel changes.”

“For Madison Beach Hotel, Chef Love is elevating the culinary experience for dining guests as well as his fellow team members – in both front- and back-of-house,” said General Manager John Mathers. “From the popular Epicurean Event Series to daily dining, Chef love delivers consistency, creativity, varied shoreline fare, and upper echelon dishes.”

He resides in Guilford, Conn.

Madison Beach Hotel is located at 94 West Wharf Road, Madison, Connecticut.

Visit Madison Beach Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton. For more information on Curio Collection by Hilton, please visit newsroom.hilton.com/curio.

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About Madison Beach Hotel

Madison Beach Hotel is a AAA Four Diamond Award-winning boutique resort and was chosen as

Top Performer for Hilton brand, the highest hotel award across all Hilton brands. The hotel, with 33 rooms offering luxurious accommodations with sweeping ocean views, private balconies, and beach, is part of Curio – A Collection by Hilton. Opened in May 2012, Madison Beach Hotel features The Wharf Restaurant with both dining room and porch seating, concierge spa, state-of-the-art fitness center and private yoga studio, and more than 5,000 square feet of private event space. Madison Beach Hotel is managed by Distinctive Hospitality Group.

Located at 94 West Wharf Road, Madison, Connecticut. For more information, please call: 203-245-1404 or visit: www.madisonbeachhotel.curiocollection.com | www.madisonbeachhotelweddings.com

About Hilton

Hilton (NYSE: HLT) is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 18 world-class brands comprising more than 6,500 properties and more than one million rooms, in 119 countries and territories. Dedicated to fulfilling its founding vision to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, Hilton has welcomed more than 3 billion guests in its more than 100-year history, earned a top spot on the 2020 World’s Best Workplaces list, and was named the 2020 Global Industry Leader on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. In 2020, Hilton CleanStay was introduced, bringing an industry-defining standard of cleanliness and disinfection to hotels worldwide. Through the award-winning guest loyalty program Hilton Honors, the more than 115 million members who book directly with Hilton can earn Points for hotel stays and experiences money can’t buy. With the free Hilton Honors mobile app, guests can book their stay, select their room, check in, unlock their door with a Digital Key and check out, all from their smartphone. Visit newsroom.hilton.com for more information, and connect with Hilton on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

About Curio Collection by Hilton

Curio Collection by Hilton is a global portfolio of more than 100 one-of-a-kind hotels and resorts in nearly 30 countries and territories. Curio Collection properties offer travelers authentic, curated experiences through distinctly local offerings and elevated amenities, while providing the benefits of Hilton and its award-winning guest loyalty program Hilton Honors. To make reservations, travelers can visit curiocollection.com. Read the latest brand and hotel stories at newsroom.hilton.com/curio, and connect with Curio Collection on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

About Distinctive Hospitality Group

Founded in 2010, Distinctive Hospitality Group is led by president and owner, Lou Carrier who offers years of experience in the hospitality industry and has overseen several the most successful hotel establishments in the country. Lou launched DHG with a mission to build a portfolio of unique high-end hotels and comprised a solid team of seasoned hospitality professionals to work towards his dream. Located in Natick, MA, DHG is quickly building a name for its constant dedication to overseeing projects with lasting power and quality, ones that provide hotel guests and restaurant diners with the utmost in experience, service, style and atmosphere. For more information, please visit: www.DistinctiveHospitalityGroup.com.