General Manager: Stephen Townsend

Executive Chef: Chris Valdez

Mark Tarbell is the Managing Partner of the The Oven restaurants. He is also the owner of Tarbell’s in Phoenix (Food & Wine “Best Restaurant”).He earned his culinary degree at La Varenne and studied wine at l’Academie du Vin (both in Paris).  Nominated “Best Chef – Southwest” by the James Beard Foundation, Mark has cooked at many special events around the country and for a stellar line-up of political, sports, and entertainment celebrities including the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali and Clint Eastwood.  He is a judge for the L.A. County Fair International Wine Competition, the weekly wine columnist for The Arizona Republic and has been published in Wine & Spirits and Food Arts. In 2007 Mark's "cuisine reigned supreme" in a battle against Cat Cora on the Food Network's "Iron Chef America".