Chef Domenica Macchia no longer at Three Birds Tavern

Chef Domenica Macchia and Three Birds Tavern separate.

  • Macchia in 2009, when CL's then-restaurant critic Brian Ries named her Best Chef.

Only a few weeks after Three Birds Tavern rolled out its fall menu, Chef Domenica Macchia has quit. Owner Robin King didn't mince words on the departure.

"It's true, and we just put out a menu with her name all over it," she said. "She has shit on yet another restaurant owner."

Before Three Birds, the Best of the Bay-winning Macchia worked at Bella Brava, and before that the now-defunct MJ's Martini & Tapas, Diner 437 and Shackleton's Folly .