Chef Anthony Jones Wiki, Age, Top Chef, Marcus DC
Anthony Jones Biography – Anthony Jones Wiki
Anthony Jones is an American chef and a contestant on Top Chef 2026. He is currently the executive chef at Marcus DC. Anthony was recently named a James Beard Award semifinalist for Emerging Chef. He was a contestant on Food Network’s “Chopped” in 2022.
Hailing from Sunderland, Maryland, Anthony’s interest in a career as a chef started when he was in middle school. After graduating with a culinary arts degree from Johnson & Wales in Charlotte, N.C., he moved to Washington, D.C., where he quickly rose through the ranks and landed the Chef de Cuisine role at the iconic Restaurant Eve under Cathal Armstrong.
Anthony then joined Marcus Samuelson’s team and where he was the Executive Sous Chef for the Miami-based Red Rooster Overtown opening team, earning them a Michelin Bib Gourmand. He moved back to D.C., where he spent two years running the award-winning Dirty Habit DC. He has since opened Marcus DC as the Executive Chef, which was named a top five restaurant by the Washington Post, and he was awarded Rising Chef of the year by Eater DC in 2025.
At Marcus DC, Anthony offers his distinct narrative of the Black diaspora. His dish, Mel’s Crab Rice, was named one of the best dishes in the city by the Washington Post and is an ode to his childhood growing up near the Chesapeake Bay and his family’s favorite crab shack.
Outside of restaurants, Anthony was part of the first Roots to Glory Diaspora Tour. Anthony’s culinary style is African and Latin flavors, but he likes to highlight the locality of the ingredients around him.
Anthony Jones Age
Top Chef contestant Anthony Jones was born and raised in Sunderland, Maryland.
Anthony Jones Top Chef
Marcus DC executive chef Anthony Jones is competing in season 23 of Top Chef on Bravo. He will be vying for the title in North Carolina, alongside fellow DC-area chef Jonathan Dearden, corporate chef at KNEAD Hospitality + Design. Anthony has been watching Top Chef since season 1, when Harold Dieterle won the competition.
“It’s always been something that I watched, especially when I went to culinary school,” Anthony told Washingtonian. “It was a nice challenge for me. It’s a very serious competition. It’s nothing that we normally handle on a regular basis. There are elements of course that correlate with regular restaurant life, but Top Chef takes it even further.”
Anthony Jones’ Instagram is @chefanthonyj.
