Daniela Soto-Innes

Daniela Soto-Innes is a Mexican-born chef and the youngest chef to be named World's Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Born in Mexico City, Mexico to two lawyers, she moved to Texas at the age of 12. She was a competitive swimmer until she was 20. and then trained in both Europe and New York under chefs Danny Trace, Chris Shepherd and Enrique Olvera. In 2017, in partnership with chef Enrique Olvera, she opened the restaurant Atla. In 2022, Soto-Innes announced that she and Wetzel would open a restaurant in Nayarit, Mexico, although Wetzel later stated that the project was solely that of Soto-Innes.

Awards In 2016, she received the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef.

Personal life Soto-Innes met fellow chef Wetzel while in Bilbao in 2018 for an awards program. They began dating and became engaged in March 2019 and, according to Soto-Innes' Instagram feed, married in January 2020.