In the Kitchen with Promontory’s Ashley Thompson Hook 32, Ashley Thompson Hook has made it her mission to shine with her Southern dinner specials. While the running menu at Promontory’s Hearth Grille is steak-house and comfort-food fare, the restaurant’s chef de cuisine for the past two years designs specials every night. The members at the private club show up for her seasonal, rustic yet refined, updated classics such as slow-roasted prime rib, fried chicken and homemade biscuits, and crawfish étouffée. Originally from Arkansas, Hook first came to visit her husband’s hometown of Park City and fell in love. She immediately started job hunting. “Promontory was the first place I interviewed, and I made the decision to come,” she says. We sat down with the busy chef to learn more about her passion for cooking, propensity for butchering, and Southern influence.
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