Food
These three culinary professionals have a wide range of experience and can prepare just about anything you ask for. Purple Sage Ranch Conference Center & Retreat offers exquisite fare hard to find elsewhere in the Texas Hill Country.
Mercedes Soto
Mercedes Soto has been the Executive Chef at Purple Sage Ranch since 2000. Mercedes has a degree in culinary arts, as well as a rich history in cuisine learned while watching and helping her mother prepare meals for the family in Mexico.
Mercedes served as a sous chef at J’Alexanders Restaurant, La Mansion del Rio, and the Marriott Riverwalk, and also helped open the popular Ristorante Paesanos 1604. She has accumulated several certifications through the American Culinary Federation. She is known for specialties such as her barbecue sauce (unique, all her own, and top secret), salsas like her roasted jalapeño and tomato, her heavenly homemade white chocolate cheesecake, and her rich homemade vanilla bean ice cream. She wants her customers to know that no menu request is unreasonable or unattainable.
Reinhard Warmuth
Reinhard Warmuth, a three-star Michelin Chef, is classically trained with true international experience. He has been in kitchens from Maxim’s in Paris to the Hotel de Paris in Monaco. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Reinhard also served as the Corporate Chef for Quorum Hotels at the DFW Lakes Hilton Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas.
He uses only fresh, local ingredients whenever possible, and makes all his stocks and sauces from scratch, an art that is rare these days. He keeps up with new food trends on a daily basis, so he and the culinary team can do just about anything you like and do it extremely well.
James Moore
James Moore is a decorated veteran of the United States Navy, where he served in Presidential Food Service as an Executive White House Caterer for presidents Clinton and Bush. Since retiring from the Navy, James held executive food service positions at the Wild Sage Steakhouse in Pipe Creek, Texas and here with us at Purple Sage.
James specializes in traditional Texas foods, from chicken-fried steak to fajitas, and is our resident pit master.
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