The full article originally appeared in White Bear Lake Magazine in March 2015 By Renee Stewart-Hester Before he was Pete, he called himself Pom Pom or Barry. And before that, his Thai mother named him Pibul. “I’m a man of many names,” he says. He’s also a man who learned to subsist on less than a dollar a day, to persist in climbing his way up the restaurant ranks and, on occasion, outlast immigration searches by altering his name. “I learned how to survive,” he says. At 4 years old, Pibul Pratumwon learned to carefully harvest vegetables from a community…

Chef Pete has catered several events for us and we haven't found anyone else that offers this combination of excellent food, humor and price.  Pete has catered dinner parties, birthday parties and our daughter's high school graduation party.  Now we have to compete with our neighbors for Pete's time because they were so impressed with his food and want him to cater their parties too.