Isabel Coss

Chef Isabel Coss is a Mexico City native best known as a FOOD & WINE “Best New Chef in America” Class of 2023, a 2025 James Beard Foundation “Best Chef Mid-Atlantic” semifinalist, and one of “100 Latino Leaders in the United States.” She moved to Washington, DC in 2020, and is currently the Executive Chef of Pascual and Executive Pastry Chef of Lutèce. 

She has shaped two of DC’s most celebrated restaurants, the Mexican hearth-focused restaurant Pascual and the French neo-bistro Lutèce where Coss is in charge of the Pastry program. 

Pascual, the Mexican concept she opened alongside spouse Chef Matt Conroy and is now one of Eater’s “Best New Restaurant in America in 2024,” a 2024 New York Time’s “America’s Best Restaurants,” The Washington Post’s #1 Best New Restaurant 2024. The hearth-focused restaurant takes inspiration from Coss’s upbringing in Mexico and the pair’s combined leadership at the best Mexican globally including Cosme, Empellón, & Pujol.