Claudia Fleming

Executive Culinary Director, Daily Provisions

Claudia Fleming is the Executive Culinary Director of Daily Provisions, Union Square Hospitality Group’s all-day neighborhood café.

After moving to New York City at the age of 21 to continue her ballet training, Claudia quickly discovered the restaurant community, working front-of-house positions at Jonathan Waxman’s Jams and Danny Meyer’s Union Square Cafe. Determined to further hone her back-of-house skills, Claudia apprenticed at the prestigious Pâtisserie Rousseau et Seurre and Fauchon in Paris, before returning to New York City to focus on pastry full-time.

Claudia joined the opening team of Gramercy Tavern in 1994 as the restaurant’s pastry chef. During her eight-year tenure at Gramercy Tavern, Claudia cemented herself as one of the country’s most influential culinary voices and in 2000 she was awarded “Outstanding Pastry Chef” by the James Beard Foundation.

In 2005, Claudia left New York City for Long Island’s North Fork, opening the North Fork Table & Inn with her husband Chef Gerry Hayden. She returned to her roots at Union Square Hospitality Group in 2021 as Executive Pastry Chef at Ci Siamo, before taking on the role of Executive Culinary Director at Daily Provisions in 2022.

Claudia is also the author of “The Last Course,” a seminal cookbook first published in 2001 and reissued in 2019.

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