Los Angeles, California: Brooke Williamson, an American chef and restaurateur, is in a relationship with Bobby Flay after separating from her husband, Nick Roberts.
Brooke and Nick co-owned several restaurants and shared a son named Hudson.
Highlights
- Brooke Williamson married Nick Roberts in 2007, and they have a son, Hudson.
- They met at Zax in Brentwood and co-owned several restaurants and the hospitality group Company for Dinner.
- They separated in 2022, and their divorce was finalized two years later.
Brooke was interested in cooking and attended the Culinary Institute of America. At 19, she became a sous chef at Michael’s, a Santa Monica restaurant.
Chris and Chantal Schaefer hired her as an executive chef of Zax in Brentwood in January 2001, and she also cooked at the James Beard Foundation House in the same year.
With all her cooking experience, she successfully opened several restaurants in California.
Moreover, she has showcased her remarkable culinary skills on various television platforms. She appeared twice on the cooking competition show Top Chef and won season 14.
Brooke won the first Tournament of Champions cooking reality competition in 2020.
Beyond that, she has brought her expertise to judging BBQ Brawl and served as a host and mentor on MTV’s House of Food.
Starting in 2022, Williamson joined forces with Bobby Flay, Michael Voltaggio, and Tiffany Derry to star in Bobby’s Triple Threat.
Brooke Williamson’s Ex-Husband Is Also A Sous Chef
Brooke and her ex-husband, Nick Roberts, met when she joined Zax in Brentwood. Their shared passion for culinary arts blossomed into a personal and professional partnership.
They married in 2007 and have a son, Hudson. Sadly, they separated in 2022, and their divorce was finalized two years later.
Nick Roberts is also her business partner, and they opened Amuse Café in 2003.
They were doing well in their business and culinary, and the StarChefs named the duo Rising Star Chefs in 2004.
It’s funny how people call it [an empire]. It feels like we have some restaurants.
Brooke Williamson
They expanded their ventures, opening Hudson House in Redondo Beach and the Tripel in Playa del Rey in 2010.
However, both establishments were eventually closed or left during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Afterward, they introduced Playa Provisions in 2014, followed by Da Kikokiko and a kitchen supplies store, Tripli-Kit. The former couple also co-owns the hospitality group Company for Dinner.
We aim to be approachable but interesting. We both understand you need to keep people entertained and wanting to come back—so you have to have these interesting twists—but I think that most of what we encourage are nostalgic twists. We’re not creating things people haven’t seen before; we’re just doing them in a special way—an up-to-date way.
Nick Roberts
Brooke Williamson And Bobby Flay Are Officially A Couple
Brooke Williamson and Bobby Flay had been friends for a long time before their love bloomed. They worked together on Bobby’s Triple Threat.
After Brooke’s divorce, they decided to turn their friendship into a romantic relationship.
On March 17, 2025, Brooke was honored at Los Angeles’s No Kid Hungry Dinner, which had a theme of “Restoring Hope: Feeding Kids in the Wake of the LA Wildfires.“
Bobby flew to Los Angeles to surprise her for the event, which was a sweet gesture.
Moreover, he was previously married three times and has a daughter, Sophie Flay, with his second wife, Kate Connelly, whom he married in 1995.
He has been single since his split from Christina Perez was made public in June 2024.
When you give Brooke a problem to solve in the kitchen, she’s very thoughtful about it, but she always goes for satisfaction. She wants to make sure that when you’re tasting something that you’re incredibly satisfied. She knows that the word craveability is really the key and she conquers that every single time.
Bobby Flay
Additional Information
- Brooke Williamson, the daughter of Catherine Elliot and Keith Williamson, was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1978.
- At 15, she worked as a teacher’s assistant at the Epicurean Institute of Los Angeles and graduated from Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in 1996.
- As of 2025, her net worth is estimated at $2 million.
