MEET CHRIS LIZ & MIKEY DEVITO
Raised in the Bronx, Chef Chris Liz developed his love of food and cooking alongside his Dominican mother. Starting as a dishwasher in Brooklyn and around the city, Chef Chris landed a cook position at Amali, where he shared the line with Chef Mike. From Long Island, Chef Mike DeVito’s first job out of culinary school was garde manger alongside Chef Chris. After 5 years of working together, they both decided to take the next steps in their careers and parted ways. Chef’s Chris and Mike then reunited, in support of each other and their industry. They worked side by side in the kitchen at Queen’s Room, in Astoria, during the pandemic. Sharing the line once again, they were able to feed off of each other to organize, stay patient, and adapt to changes and stresses the industry endured. With Queen’s Room as a foundation, and their unwavering dreams, Chef’s embraced their reignited passion for creating and working together and from there, their gourmet food truck, StrEat Kings, was born.
