The Curious Case of Chef Alex Jackson

pic via SF Weekly.

Grub Street, reporting on the all the World's First World Problems, has uncovered a nefarious plot by an East Coast loser masquerading around San Francisco as a successful chef.  Allegedly, Alex Jackson, the supposed former chef at The Corner, partner at Parada 22, menu-maker at Weird Fish, and future businessman slated to open two new restaurants in the Mission, made most of his resume up (which begs the question, why has the San Francisco media been reporting on this guy for the past year without ever once fact checking?).  Apparently Alex, who has claimed to be former banker at Goldman Sachs and come from a family fortune, is actually a broke-ass loser from Chattanooga, TN named Jonathan M. Jackson, who doesn't actually have any plans to open any restaurants and never co-owned a restaurant in the city.

Anyway, the story is far too complex to sum up in an entire paragraph.  Just trust me when I say that in the two years I've been reading SF food blogs, this is, by far, the most interesting thing I've read on that particular scene.  I mean, it has falsified identity, media manipulation, and fraud all in one story.  Drammmmmmmaaaaaa.

Comments (4)

Oh hey, that’s the guy who sold me the Golden Gate Bridge last week.

“Anyway, the story is far to complex to sum up in an entire paragraph.” Your sentence should read: the story is far TOO complex………

Learn to speaka da English, immigrant.

As to Parada 22; it’s to Puerto Rican cuisine what Champale is to Champagne. Porquería.

reinvention, lies, drama it’s all very American and business-like.

get it where you can.

i like it.