Director of F&B and Executive Chef
Canyon Ranch Spa + Fitness
Chef Pete Ghione has dedicated his culinary career to using purposeful ingredients to create a wellness-inspired cuisine to help people happily live a healthy way of life. Currently the Director of Culinary Innovation & Training for four Canyon Ranch resorts and a father to a teenage daughter, Ghione is a World Culinary Olympic Silver Medalist and former private chef for people battling diseases, including lung cancer, diabetes, vitiligo, and leukemia. It is through the personal and successful experiences in his career of helping people live longer while losing his mother to ovarian cancer that motivated Ghione to eliminate preventable disease through food and medicine.
Ghione often volunteers his time by talking with students and works with Green Our Planet. In addition, he is on the Culinary Council for Three Square Food Bank and was the former chairman of Flavors for Life.
"Team Cooking for a Cure" was created to raise funds for medical research through the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. It was also an opportunity for Ghione to share his experiences and passion for the healing power of nature, all focused on delicious and exciting food.
In 2020, Ghione created the first fully vegan restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, Truth & Tonic Wellness Café. That same year, the Canyon Ranch Grill was named "Best Healthy Restaurant in Nevada" by Eat This, Not That.
Ghione was the Executive Chef for the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino at the young age of just 26. He was also the Assistant Executive Chef at Caesars Palace and opened the Horseshoe Casino in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Chef Pete Ghione has been all over the media many times. His most recent appearance was Guys Grocery Games on the Food Network and Season 33 Episode 1 of "Meatless Marvels."