Former Napa Valley Chef Shares Tips On How To Grill The Perfect Burger

Former Napa Valley Chef Shares Tips On How To Grill The Perfect Burger

we bring you burger-grilling advice from Adam Baird, executive chef at Irvine-based Habit Burger Grill.

Baird, to be sure, knows his way around a kitchen — and a grill — as he attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y, and has a resume boasting stints at Auberge du Soleil in Rutherford, the Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant at CIA’s St. Helena and at Disney’s Grand Californian Napa Rose restaurant in Anaheim.

He now works and steers The Habit menu, renowned for its award-winning Charburgers, signature sandwiches, hand-cut salads and more, at the restaurant chain, founded by two brothers in 1969 in Santa Barbara.