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WEST HOLLYWOOD\u2014On October 2, celebrity pastry chef and chocolatier, Chris Ford announced the new date of his next adventure, Butter Love and Hard Work. Ford\u2019s will be at the La Peer Hotel, 627 N. La Peer Drive. First reports of the October 1 opening did not come to fruition. One may hope to experience some of Ford\u2019s delicacies at the new West Hollywood location as soon as November.<\/p>\n Chris Ford is an ambassador for IRCA Group which is a global leader in high-quality food ingredients, specializing in chocolate, creams, fillings, fruits, pistachios, and decorations.<\/p>\n He graduated from the Le Cordon Bleau program at Orlando Culinary Academy in 2005. His experience includes work at ChikaLicious Dessert Barin New York City and working as a corporate pastry chef for Bryan Voltaggio\u2019s restaurants.<\/p>\n In 2012, Food and Wine Magazine named Chris Ford, \u201cThe People\u2019s Best New Pastry Chef.\u201d<\/p>\n In a March 6, issue of So Good magazine (SG), the chocolatier\u2019s concoctions were described as more of an art. <\/p>\n [Ford is], \u201cOne of his country\u2019s most celebrated chocolatiers, thanks to his artistry and the distinguished list of illustrious clients of his firm ButterLove&Hardwork (BLHW), which includes Madonna, John Legend, Chanel, or Louis Vuitton.\u201d<\/p>\n In SG, Ford was quoted as saying,<\/p>\n \u201cI receive a lot of compliments on the creative aspect of my products. With this I also receive price point comments seeing as my product is highly handmade and not the everyday chocolate product.<\/p>\n \u201cThe important thing is to continue to evolve in the way I have been for the last 20 years. Stay true to myself and be as creative as possible,\u201d and \u201cChocolate is a world of possibilities. And \u201cAs wild and out there my presentations of desserts are, I am a purist at heart. I prefer no other flavor components, just the beautiful depth and aroma of a great ganache.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.canyon-news.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WEST HOLLYWOOD\u2014On October 2, celebrity pastry chef and chocolatier, Chris Ford announced the new date of his next adventure, Butter Love and Hard Work. Ford\u2019s will be at the La Peer Hotel, 627 N. La Peer Drive. First reports of the October 1 opening did not come to fruition. One may hope to experience some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[385779,385780],"class_list":["post-2065005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-pastry-chef-chris-ford","tag-irca-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Celebrity-Chocolatier-Coming-Soon-To-West-Hollywood.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065007,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065005\/revisions\/2065007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
His first position upon graduation from culinary school was at the Ritz Carlton, Orlando working alongside the great Chef Norman Van Aken. He also worked with other famous chefs including Thomas Keller at Bouchon in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n