Angela Dimayuga

Angela Solita Dimayuga (1985) is an American chef. She is currently working as an executive chef at Mission Chinese Food New York. Dimayuga was included in the Zagat’s "30 Under 30" List in 2015 as an upcoming culinary star and was also part of 2015 class of Eater Young Guns. She was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in 2016 and named a 2017 Rising Star Chef for her work at Mission Chinese Food New York.

Angela Dimayuga was born and raised in San Jose, California into a Filipino-American family, she is one of six siblings.

She is a multi-disciplinary food industry creative, who currently works as Mission Chinese Food’s executive chef. She is also a contributor to Bon Appetit magazine, a food stylist, media personality, and interested in the intersection of politics in her work.

Dimayuga joined the NYC culinary scene in 2007, when she moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. At age 22, she started as a line cook at "'Vinegar Hill House" in Brooklyn. She credit’s Vinegar Hill House’s Jean Adamson as a chief mentor, who helped launch her career.

In 2012 she was cold-called by Danny Bowien to help open the first NYC iteration of his then solely-San Francisco-based restaurant, Mission Chinese Food. Dimayuga has helped open, design the menu, interiors, and collaborations, for Bowien’s subsequent three NYC restaurants: Mission Chinese Food on Orchard St, Mission Cantina, and Mission Chinese Food East Broadway (currently the only NYC location that remains).

Dipping into her Filipino roots at a Chinese restaurant, Dimayuga’s menu at Mission Chinese Food is what she calls “New American”; a cuisine not simply about Asian fusion or even Asian-American, but rather, reflective of the kind of hybrid dining, relevant to today’s New Yorkers.

At MCF, Dimayuga is not only the executive chef, but helps to contextualize the restaurant within the culture of the surrounding Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods, through various artist collaborations. Dimayuga commissions a network of creatives to design work for the restaurant and its external pop-ups and collaborations. In addition, she selects musicians to play in the restaurant, as well as recently worked with friends and fellow artists to design a signature streetwear line for the restaurant.