Chef Diane Moua on her restaurant being named 2025 Food and Wine restaurant of the year, featuring a cuisine most Americans have never heard of – Hmong cooking

Chef Diane Moua grew up a child of refugees in the tight knit Hmong community, which at the time limited a woman’s professional opportunities. Still, she followed her culinary dreams and became a wildly successful pastry chef in Minneapolis. Then she took on an even greater challenge – opening a restaurant of her own and adding savory Hmong cooking to her lauded baking. Now her restaurant, Diane’s Place has been named Food and Wine’s 2025 restaurant of the year. It’s on the New York Times list of America’s Fifty Best as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices