Janet Cam is best known as the founder and co-proprietor of LePavillon restaurant, the
first nouvelle cuisine restaurant in America, honored with The Wine Spectators Grand
Award. She was the Managing Director of the legendary Lutce in New York
orchestrating the renovation and revival of the iconic French restaurant. She is included
in Whos Who in Americas Restaurants. Janet Cam provides consulting services to
restaurant and hospitality businesses through a collaborative process to build profitable
ventures from the ground up and redevelops existing businesses into fresh, competitive
operations with a focus on wine and beverage programs. Janet currently serves on the Smithsonian National Museum of American Historys Kitchen Cabinet, an advisory board made up of leaders in food scholarship and culinary history to help the museum shape and expand its research, collections, programs, and exhibitions related to food and beverage history. She is a former judge for the James Beard Foundation Awards and a longstanding member of Les Dames dEscoffier (Washington, DC, Los Angeles and New York). Janet has mentored hospitality students on their Capstone Projects for Georgetown University and University of Maryland relating to Chinese restaurants. Conducting wine tastings for public and private clients, restaurants, as well as the Hill Center in Washington, DC she seamlessly pairs food and wine with a specialty in European wines and Asian food. WSET II with Distinction. In country studies for wine and food of (Burgundy, Loire, Champagne, Mosel, Rhine, Kamptal, Piemonte, Spain). In country focus on cuisines of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou and Bangkok.
Janet has been invited to create the first wine program for the University of Maryland
to launch in 2025.
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