Leading Bar Cocoa and Urban Sip’s expert team of chefs and pastry artists, as well as the banquets, catering and in-room dining divisions of The Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte, is Executive Chef Jon Farace. A native of Toronto, Chef Farace has worked at such well-known Canadian properties as The Fairmont Algonquin in New Brunswick and The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in the Canadian Rockies. Chef Farace joined The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 2003, beginning as Garde Manger Chef and then Chef Tournant at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta, advancing to the position of Executive Sous Chef for The Ritz-Carlton, Boston, and then gaining the title of Executive Chef for The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. Chef Farace joined The Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte in 2009 and personally designed the chef’s garden and famous honey-making/beehive activities established on the hotel’s green, vegetated roof.