Chef Hsing Chen wears multiple hats as a co-founder of Eat Well Hospitality, she is also the Communications Director and Pastry Chef for the group. With her creative eye for detail, food photography and media know-how she supports mission-driven hospitality related projects by creating content and communication strategies for Eat Well Hospitality.

She and her husband and business partner Chef Doug Psaltis (also cooking at ACE) are the talent behind a trio of award-winning Chicago restaurants including Michelin-Guide recognized Andros Taverna, contemporary Greek restaurant serving sophisticated Mediterranean food cooked from the soul; highly-acclaimed Basque-inspired Asador Bastian, named one of the New York Times 25 Best Restaurants 2024, ranked the #14 Best Steakhouse in the World 2024 and voted the Best New Restaurant in American 2023 by Esquire; and traditional Italian neighborhood trattoria, Mano a Mano.

Chen’s introduction to the importance of good food and hospitality started when she was a child watching her mother in the kitchen. She started her career as an Emmy award-winning journalist, before turning her focus to pastry and training under renowned chocolatier Pascal Janvier. Chen has shared her talents in some of the world’s best kitchens – including Napa Valley’s French Laundry where she met Psaltis, Manresa, Geoffrey Zakarian’s Country and The Peninsula Hotels

Chen, Psaltis and their partners, opened Andros Taverna in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in 2021. Inspired by the cosmopolitan taverns of Greece, Andros Taverna is a story of culinary heritage, purity of flavors, and warm hospitality. The restaurant’s menu is rooted in tradition while highlighting quality products with updated classic mezzes, crisp salads, responsible meats and wild seafood cooked over glowing embers of charcoal. Opened in 2023 in a refurbished 1883 River North townhouse, steakhouse Asador Bastian merges asador-style cooking (cooked on a spit over an open fire) with the classic Chicago steakhouse experience. The latest in Psaltis’s Eat Well Hospitality portfolio, Mano a Mano was launched in 2024 and offers regional Italian comfort food inspired by the couple’s travels to Italy.