{"id":224346,"date":"2026-03-17T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:44:09","slug":"andrew-sutton-longtime-disneyland-resort-culinary-director-exits-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224346\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Sutton, longtime Disneyland Resort culinary director, exits \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sutton<\/a>, culinary director of signature dining for the Disneyland Resort, has departed after more than 25 years at the resort. The news, first reported by Mickey Visit,<\/a> was confirmed by Disneyland officials.<\/p>\n

Officials did not say why, or exactly when, the longtime chef left.<\/p>\n

Sutton, who joined Disney in April 2000, led the kitchens at the newly revamped Napa Rose,<\/a> at Disney\u2019s Grand Californian Hotel, Carthay Circle<\/a> at Disney California Adventure and the private Club 33<\/a> at Disneyland. In 2017, he debuted 21 Royal<\/a>, an $18,000 multi-course dining experience perched above the Anaheim theme park\u2019s New Orleans Square.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Disneyland\u2019s Napa Rose: First look inside the remodeled restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n

Sutton, who was raised in Dallas, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. His previous credits include executive chef at Auberge du Soleil in Napa and a stint working with Dean Fearing at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Texas.<\/p>\n

The chef has credited cooking for his siblings with sparking his interest in the kitchen. \u201cI loved to cook, and we had a lot of support from the folks,\u201d said Sutton in a 2015 interview<\/a> with the Orange County Register. \u201cWhat we enjoyed most was the joy around the table. That was our centerpiece: four boys and two parents. We would talk about everything. Nothing was sacred and there was always good humor. That was my parents\u2019 lifestyle; they enjoyed cooking and sharing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This news follows a wave of executive shifts at The Walt Disney Company.<\/p>\n

In early February, the Burbank-based giant announced that Josh D\u2019Amaro would succeed outgoing chief executive Bob Iger<\/a>, with his tenure beginning March 18. In the wake of that promotion, the company named Disneyland Resort President Thomas Mazloum as the new Chairman of Disney Experiences<\/a> on March 10, while Jill Estorino, formerly Disney Parks International President, was tapped to lead the Disneyland Resort<\/a>. She will oversee Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the three Disney hotels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Sutton, culinary director of signature dining for the Disneyland Resort, has departed after more than 25 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2223,163,165,164,2222,1341,20776,412,580,420],"class_list":["post-224346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-amusement-parks","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-disney-california-adventure","tag-disneyland","tag-downtown-disney","tag-restaurants","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}