Three Seasons

Specialties

The Three Seasons Restaurant is the on campus dining room that provides lunch service Tuesday through Thursday during the semester to any member of the community and college. At the Three Seasons Restaurant, Culinary Arts Department faculty and students strive to provide an enjoyable experience for all of our guests.

The restaurant features new menus monthly/​seasonally and host numerous banquet events, culinary competitions and themed buffets throughout the semester. Students are responsible for the superb culinary creations and the esteemed service that our patrons have been experiencing for years. The menu style and content varies periodically to coincide with the current curriculum and subject matter of the numerous culinary and baking courses of the semester.

Our devoted students and faculty work very hard to ensure that the restaurant functions at or above the high standards of the hospitality industry. The seamless experience leaves most of our guests astonished at the super

History

Established in 1950.

The college was founded in 1950 on a temporary location housed at the shuttered Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. In 1957, a permanent campus was opened on Mission Bell Drive in downtown San Pablo.

Meet the Manager

Nader S.

Manager

Chef Nader Sharkes, Culinary Arts Department chair

For more than fifteen years, Chef Nader Sharkes’ name has been synonymous with the respected Hotel and Restaurant Management Program.

He was trained in London, England while attending school and earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies/​Language.

He developed an interest in culinary arts and went on in this field in France, Switzerland, England and the United States, completing various food service and nutrition programs to add to his wealth of knowledge.

Sharkes worked as banquet chef at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City and then went on to become executive chef at the Roosevelt Hotel there. He also worked as executive chef at La Sommet Restaurant in San Mateo and as a consultant for research and development for the Del Monte Corporation. He opened Orpee Restaurant, a fine dining establishment, in 1989, at the same time serving as part-​time chef instructor at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg.