A Perfect Match: An Interview with DJ Bosse and Chef Christopher Coombs of Bosse – A Premier Pickledom Experience
Krista Krista

A Perfect Match: An Interview with DJ Bosse and Chef Christopher Coombs of Bosse – A Premier Pickledom Experience

What do you get when a former professional athlete and an award-winning chef team up as entrepreneurs? If it’s DJ Bosse and Christopher Coombs, the answer is a perfect match. Together, they have launched Bosse – A Premiere Pickledom Experience – a groundbreaking establishment in Natick, Massachusetts, that combines the excitement of pickleball with remarkable dining experiences tailored to a range of venues. 

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It’s the best or nothing for chef Chris Coombs
Krista Krista

It’s the best or nothing for chef Chris Coombs

Chris Coombs’ celebrity is generating crossover marketing power, from the kitchen to major consumer brands.

The celebrated Boston chef this week taped a series of commercials for Mercedes-Benz, who followed him with cameras as he drove across the state in their vehicles to his favorite food purveyors.

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Chef Chris Coombs beefs up at Boston Chops
Krista Krista

Chef Chris Coombs beefs up at Boston Chops

Coombs is just 28 and his fast-track career is a tribute to ambition, passion, talent — and to the curious story of former Boston food writer Peter McNamara, the restaurant critic for the Improper Bostonian in the 1990s.

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What’s Cooking With One Of Boston’s Brightest Chefs
Krista Krista

What’s Cooking With One Of Boston’s Brightest Chefs

On the surface, Chris Coombs and Kendrick Lamar may not have much in common: Coombs is a 33-year-old chef from Peabody, Massachusetts, and Lamar is 30-year-old rapper from Compton, California. But look beyond obvious differences and you begin to see similarities: both are talented, extremely focused individuals doing more than a little shaking up in their respective fields. And they’ve got the acknowledgements to prove it.

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Forbes 30 Under 30: Food & Wine
Krista Krista

Forbes 30 Under 30: Food & Wine

Christoper Coombs co-owns Deuxave, a French American restaurant in Boston’s historic Back Bay that opened in September, as well as dbar in Dorchester. With business partner Brian Piccini, Coombs is now getting ready to open Boston Chops, an urban steak bistro in Boston’s South End, in January.

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Haute Secrets Boston: Chef Chris Coombs
Krista Krista

Haute Secrets Boston: Chef Chris Coombs

After graduating from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in New York, Chris Coombs’ future certainly looked bright as he returned to Boston to cook alongside Ming Tsai at Blue Ginger followed by a stint at the Relais & Chateaux Toppers at the Wauwinet in Nantucket where he met Chef Patrick O’Connell, who later brought him to The Inn at Little Washington in Virginia where he prepared dishes for First Lady Laura Bush.

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Best of Boston: 2015 Best Steakhouse
Krista Krista

Best of Boston: 2015 Best Steakhouse

Boston Chops, a venture from Deuxave’s Chris Coombs and Brian Piccini is billed as an “urban steak bistro”—shorthand for “not your grandparents’ steakhouse.” Start with daring small plates like oxtail croquets with red pepper mostarda, then tuck into an order of steak frites, which combines your favorite cut with a house-made sauce and heaping piles of greens, as well as fries served tableside from large copper bowls.

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Chris Coombs brings ribeye steak to THE Dish
Krista Krista

Chris Coombs brings ribeye steak to THE Dish

Chris Coombs started small: He was a dishwasher at 11 but a Forbes "30 Under 30" food list member at 28. Today, the Boston-based chef owns three restaurants; dbar, Deuxave and Boston Chops, and he's bringing recipes from those spots to THE Dish.

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