Chef Althea Grey Potter has worked in many facets in the culinary industry, including many years in restaurants, catering and as the chef at a winery. She ran one of Portland’s top catering kitchens for two years, and has catered over 500 weddings, corporate events and private dinners.

Chef Althea Grey Potter has been a food enthusiast since she was very young. It is no surprise that the child of an artist and a flavor chemist became a chef! Raised in rural Massachusetts by counter culture parents, as a toddler she harvested fresh vegetables from the family garden and discovered the deliciousness of eating tomatoes warm from the sun and crisp snap peas right off the vine.

Althea hosted her first dinner party at age nine and has been working in the restaurant industry for 25 years.

After graduating with honors from the Oregon Culinary Institute, Althea spent many years cooking in some of Portland’s best restaurant and catering kitchens.

At Oui! Wine Bar and Restaurant Althea garnered attention by creating big flavors out of a tiny kitchen nestled inside the SE Wine Collective wine cellar.

Her work at Oui! received recognition as one of Portland Monthly’s Best New Restaurants 2018, and one of Portland’s Best New Restaurants and Top 5 Dishes of 2018 by the Portland Mercury. After appearing on both Food Network’s Chopped and Guy’s Grocery Games, she was named Eater Portland’s 2019 Food Personality of the Year and landed a spot on the Eater 38 Essential Portland Restaurants list.