Land and Sea Dept.
Mike Ciardi is an accomplished culinary professional with extensive experience in various high-profile roles. Currently serving as Chef De Cuisine at Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants and Land and Sea Dept. since October 2022 and November 2021, respectively, Mike has also worked as a culinary consultant in New York City since August 2015, focusing on kitchen systems, efficiencies, and product development. Previous positions include Executive Chef at The Goddess Group, Kitchen Manager at Totto's Market, and Corporate Executive Chef at Morris Adjmi Architects. Mike's management portfolio includes overseeing commissary kitchens for Union Market and serving as Head Chef at Radish. Educated at the French Culinary Institute and Loyola University New Orleans, Mike holds a certificate in Career Culinary and a Bachelor of Science in Music Business.
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Land and Sea Dept.
Land and Sea Dept. is a concept and project development studio working cohesively and creatively across disciplines. Our principals—Cody Hudson, Jon Martin, Robert McAdams and Peter Toalson—have collective decades of involvement in the fields of art, construction, design, event production, identity, marketing, music and woodworking, experiences that allow us to apply our unique creative perspectives across a wide variety of applications. Thus far, our work has focused on actualizing concepts, partnerships and projects that we find engaging, intriguing and necessary. In realizing these, creativity has been our tool of choice, allowing us to work through the challenges, constraints and obstacles that often delay, prolong or stymie the sorts of endeavors we find so vital. We have completed a wide range of projects at this point, including art exhibitions, bars, film screenings, live concerts, restaurants, structural designs and more. We are—always—developing and discussing concepts, ideas and projects; ranging in practicality, scope and size, for sure, but passion projects, all of them.