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Daniela Soto-Innes

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Daniela Soto-Innes is a Mexican-born chef and the youngest chef[1] named World's Best Female Chef by the World's 50 Best Restaurant.[2] Born in Mexico City, Mexico to two lawyers, she moved to Texas at the age of 12.[3] She was a competitive swimmer until she was 20.[1] She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Austin, Texas[4] and then trained in both Europe and New York under chefs Danny Trace, Chris Shepherd and Enrique Olvera.[3] In 2014, she helped to open Cosme in New York City, serving there as the Chef de Cuisine.[5] In 2017, in partnership with chef Enrique Olvera, she opened the restaurant Atla.[4]

After leaving Cosme, Soto-Innes worked alongside her husband, Blaine Wetzel, at the Willows Inn before its closure in 2022 and added Mexican elements to the inn's menu.[6] 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.[7]

In 2016, she received the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef.[5] In 2019, she was named the World's Best Female Chef at the World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards.

Travel Channel named her one of the ten up and coming chefs to look out for based on her work at Cosme in Manhattan.[8]

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.[9][10][11]

  1. ^ a b "Latina chef Daniela Soto-Innes named 'World's Best Female Chef'". NBC News. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  2. ^ O'Hare, Maureen (2019-06-25). "World's best restaurant for 2019 revealed". CNN Travel. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  3. ^ a b "Cosme's Daniela Soto-Innes on corn husk meringues, immigrant culture and dancing in the kitchen". The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  4. ^ a b Vianna, Carla (2019-04-24). "Cosme's Daniela Soto-Innes Wins the Absurd 'World's Best Female Chef' Award". Eater NY. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  5. ^ a b "Daniela Soto-Innes". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  6. ^ Price, Laura (August 3, 2022). "Fake it till you make it, know your worth and always listen: advice and learnings from six of the world's best female chefs". 50 Best Stories. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  7. ^ Varriano, Jackie; Vinh, Tan (November 28, 2022). "Embattled Willows Inn closes; building donated to Bellingham nonprofit". Seattle Times. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  8. ^ "10 Up-and-Coming Female Chefs You Need to Know". Travel Channel. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  9. ^ Cheshes, Jay (February 10, 2020). "When Chefs on Either Side of the Country Fall in Love". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  10. ^ Soto-Innes, Daniela (January 25, 2021). "One year ago Blaine and I got married, it was the best day of my life". Instagram. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  11. ^ Schwartz, Ralph (February 3, 2023). "The Untold Truth Of Daniela Soto-Innes". Mashed. Retrieved 14 October 2025.