{"id":20729,"date":"2019-06-04T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20729"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:19:47","slug":"patrick-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/patrick-owens\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef at Heart: Patrick Owens &#039;99"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p><strong>Chef at Heart: Patrick Owens &#8217;99<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='20856,20854,20852,20853,20850,20857'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='false'  data-slide_height=''  data-handle='av_slideshow'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id=''  data-scroll_down=''  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1  av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_slideshow  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 66.6666666667%;' ><li  class=' slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-dXrfz5H-X4-1500x1000.jpg' width='1500' height='1000' title='i-dXrfz5H-X4' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-2 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-rKsrnZF-X4-1500x1000.jpg' width='1500' height='1000' title='i-rKsrnZF-X4' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-3 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-9zhS7zb-X3-e1559230091241.jpg' width='798' height='969' title='i-9zhS7zb-X3' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-4 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-g4r9HkG-X4-1500x1000.jpg' width='1500' height='1000' title='i-g4r9HkG-X4' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-5 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-KrjnTMm-X4-1500x1000.jpg' width='1500' height='1000' title='i-KrjnTMm-X4' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-6 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-8mrSt94-X3.jpg' width='800' height='1200' title='i-8mrSt94-X3' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><div class='avia-slideshow-arrows avia-slideshow-controls'><a href='#prev' class='prev-slide' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'>Previous<\/a><a href='#next' class='next-slide' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87d' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'>Next<\/a><\/div><div class='avia-slideshow-dots avia-slideshow-controls'><a href='#1' class='goto-slide active' >1<\/a><a href='#2' class='goto-slide ' >2<\/a><a href='#3' class='goto-slide ' >3<\/a><a href='#4' class='goto-slide ' >4<\/a><a href='#5' class='goto-slide ' >5<\/a><a href='#6' class='goto-slide ' >6<\/a><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For Owens, it took leaving the food industry to discover how much he loved it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick Owens was raised in the kitchen. As a kid, he would watch his mother bake breads and pore over <span class=\"s1\">her many cookbooks. He would listen to his wine-collecting father talk about <\/span>the art of pairing wines with dishes. <span class=\"s1\">He would learn from his father\u2019s best <\/span>friend, an Italian chef, how to braise and sear meats and game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As a teenager, Owens had a job getting fresh fish off the dock in his <span class=\"s1\">hometown of Mount Pleasant, South <\/span>Carolina, breaking them down into filets for local restaurants and learning what to look for, feel for and smell for when it came to fresh seafood. And as a college student, he spent summers working in local favorites like The Wreck and Acme Lowcountry Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It seemed only natural that Owens would have entered the food industry after school. But after graduating from Clemson with a degree in marketing, he took a sales job with a good salary and benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI absolutely loathed it,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter about a year, I left to get back in the kitchen. I took a significant pay cut, but I was much happier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This decision spurred another big one: opening his first restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Langdon\u2019s was born in a shopping <\/span>center in Mount Pleasant in August 2003. Offering a modern American white-tablecloth dining experience with <span class=\"s2\">prime beef, lamb and seafood on the\u00a0<\/span>menu, Langdon\u2019s has received the AAA <span class=\"s1\">Four Diamond rating every year it\u2019s been <\/span>open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But the restaurant\u2019s early days brought one crisis after another: \u201cI remember the first night when my sous chef didn\u2019t show up, I had to do about 70 covers by myself. Then, a few nights later, the hoods went out, and the kitchen was 130 degrees. About two weeks in, the restaurant started flooding, so we had to cancel dinner service and kick all of our customers out. We realized that our plumber had failed to tie our lines into the sewer. That was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Owens dug his heels in, and after about a month of struggle, it paid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Langdon\u2019s began to thrive. In 2011, he opened his second restaurant, Opal \u2014 a casual, California cuisine-meets- Mediterranean spot, and in 2017, he opened Wood and Grain \u2014 a wood-fired <span class=\"s1\">pizza place right next to Langdon\u2019s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">A few years ago, Owens experienced a highlight of his career when he was invited to cook at the James <span class=\"s2\">Beard House, a restaurant in New York <\/span>City featuring multicourse meals from visiting chefs. Owens and his team had a <span class=\"s2\">sold-out dinner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThat was pretty cool,\u201d he says. \u201cI can check that off the list.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='av-buildercomment   '><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[591,821,1766,1988,2145,2396,2784,3404],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-chef","tag-cooking","tag-langdons","tag-mount-pleasant","tag-opal","tag-restaurant","tag-summer-2019-alumni-profiles","tag-wood-and-grain"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/i-KrjnTMm-X4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}