Senior Food & Beverage Editor, Nation's Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality; Brooklyn, NY

Bret Thorn is senior food and beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, with responsibility for spotting and reporting on food and beverage trends across the country for both publications. From 2006 to 2008, he also wrote the Kitchen Dish column for The New York Sun, covering restaurant openings and chefs’ career moves. He joined Nation’s Restaurant News in 1999 after spending about five years in Thailand, where he wrote articles about business, banking, and finance as well as restaurant reviews and food columns for Manager magazine and Asia Times newspaper. Bret joined Restaurant Hospitality’s staff in 2016 while retaining his position at NRN. A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Bret also studied traditional French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. His monthly column in Nation’s Restaurant News won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best staff-written editorial or opinion column. @FoodWriterDiary