Laura Lyons

Laura co-founded Global Gourmet Catering in 1998 after many years working in the restaurant industry and eventually realizing her dream of owning a restaurant in San Francisco. Having lived in the Bay Area since 1973, Laura grew up in the era that brought such culinary revelations as Alice Waters, the organic foods movement and the integration of a vast array of ethnic influences on the everyday dining habits of Bay Area residents. While earning a degree in political Science at UC Berkeley she realized her passion was working in the food service industry. A lack of common sense and a love of food, wine and entertaining culminated in the development of her own culinary adventure in San Francisco, Babaloo Tapas Restaurant in the Marina. Laura’s introduction to the catering world happened when she developed that branch of the restaurant. Global Gourmet Catering was later born when she realized she preferred having the occasional day off to never having a life outside of the restaurant and being broke all the time.