Courtney Storer

Courtney "Coco" Storer (b. ) is an American chef and co-executive producer and culinary producer for the American TV show The Bear. According to Food & Wine magazine, "chocolate cake, sandwiches, and cannolis are an essential part of the show's storytelling."

Biography Storer was born around 1984, and grew up in the north suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, United States, in a family that included her older brother, the creator of The Bear, writer-director Christopher Storer. She started working in restaurants before she was legally eligible to work and was employed at a series of Italian-American-family-owned restaurants in the Chicago area.

When The Bear started production she began training the actors and advising set decoration and camera on how a working kitchen would look and feel. Her culinary production team includes culinary co-producer C. J. Capace, chefs Brian Lockwood and Justin Selk, Nicole Biyani, Danielle Stefanick, and Gabriel Wallace and Jeffrey Thomas in the dish room. The team creates a culinary reference guide for every episode, in part because "The show itself is tracking a Michelin-level restaurant, which is, you know, very precise in how they set things up and also the tools that they use over things that they don't."

Storer and Michelin star-winning Kasama chef Tim Flores worked together at GT Fish & Oyster in younger days and reunited to create the "seven fishes" for the Friends & Family soft launch of the fictional Bear restaurant. Storer designed the savory "Mikey" cannoli of season two.

Courtney Storer has a dog named Bear.