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Lisa Dahl Brings a Fashion Sensibility to Food

Lisa Dahl has an angel watching over her. His name is Justin. An accomplished and award-winning self-taught chef, Dahl introduced the idea of fine dining to the popular tourist destination of Sedona, Ariz., 25 years ago. Since that time, as executive chef and chief executive officer of the Dahl Restaurant Group, she has opened five eateries in Sedona and racked up accolades including featured chef at the James Beard House two times and the 2019 Food Pioneer from the Arizona Restaurant Association’s Foodist Awards, which also named her 2018 Top Chef last year. She was also awarded the Best Chefs of America Hall of Fame Award by National Elite, a national restaurant industry organization, is a regular on the Phoenix morning shows and has been featured on The Food Network. But none of this would have happened if it wasn’t for a life-altering tragedy she endured that made her give up a career in fashion and turn to food. On a March night in 1994, her 22-year-old son Justin jumped on his bike and rode over the Golden Gate Bridge to visit a record shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury area “and didn’t come home,” she said. He was killed trying to break

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