Kate Williams

Kate Williams is a chef and restaurateur in Detroit, Michigan, US. She was chef and restaurateur for Lady of the House in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood. In 2018 Food + Wine named her one of America's best new chefs and GQ and Esquire named the restaurant to their lists of best new restaurants. Lady of the House closed in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Early life Williams was born in 1985 in Detroit to parents who were also from Detroit.

Career Williams served as sous chef for Wolfgang Puck in Chicago She was living in New York and working in restaurants when she came home to attend a funeral and "decided this is the only place I want to have a restaurant". Some of the dinnerware had belonged to Williams' grandmother.

According to Food + Wine it is a "no-waste kitchen". She wanted a restaurant "small enough that I am cooking every day and not just doing paperwork".

The restaurant closed in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recognition In 2018 Food + Wine named her one of America's best new chefs, one of only three Michigan chefs since the magazine started the list.

In 2019 she was a semifinalist for a James Beard Foundation Award for best chef in the Great Lakes.

Industry journal Restaurant Hospitality called her "the poster child for Detroit's rising food scene". The Chicago Tribune said her food showed "pure mastery". The New York Times called it "seasonal-voluptuous".

Philanthropy Williams works with Alternatives for Girls, which helps homeless and at-risk girls and young women. She has family connections to Corktown and Detroit.