CHEF

Executive Chef Derek Ridgway
Bentley's Grill
Salem, Oregon

Bentley's Grill offers comfortable fine dining and a broad menu featuring Northwest foods. The restaurant is conveniently located adjacent the Phoenix Grand Hotel in downtown Salem has become the capitol's hot spot. Key to the restaurant's success is its acclaimed Executive Chef, Derek Ridgway, whose menu showcases banner Oregon products.

Chef Ridgway's culinary career includes serving as Executive Chef of the Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel, Director of Food and beverage of The Desert Falls Country Club and Chef/Partner of Silas St. John Restaurant in Kensington. He has won well deserved praise from local and regional critics including Gerry Frank, the Wine Spectator and the James Beard Foundation.