Chef Mashama Bailey

Mashama Bailey is the executive chef and partner of Savannah's acclaimed The Grey, which was named one of the World's Best Restaurants for 2019 by Food + Wine and Travel + Leisure. Bailey has been featured in the Netflix series "Chef's Table," and won the James Beard Awards for Best Chef: Southeast in 2019 and Outstanding Chef in 2022. She serves as Vice Chairman on the board of the Edna Lewis Foundation.

Bonded by a common viewpoint on what makes for delicious food, Chef Mashama Bailey, who won James Beard Awards in 2019 and 2022, and restaurateur Johno Morisano partnered to build The Grey in Historic Downtown Savannah. Located in an old Greyhound bus terminal, The Grey reclaims the building’s history and places it at the very heart of southern cooking by transporting guests to the past, present, and future of Port City Southern Cuisine. Tapping into much of what they learned in creating that space, Mashama and Johno opened The Grey Market, a New York bodega meets southern lunch counter, in 2018.