Michelle Bernstein is an American chef from Miami, Florida. She is a James Beard Foundation Award recipient and cooks in a Latin American style.
In 2001 she opened the restaurant Azul at the Mandarin Oriental. She was a co-host of the Food Network series Melting Pot and was once won a battle on Iron Chef America versus Bobby Flay. She has appeared as a guest judge on Top Chef. She has hosted a PBS weekly television series, Check, Please! South Florida.
In 2005, Bernstein and her husband, David Martinez, became business partners and left Azul to open Michy's in Miami.
In May 2006, Bernstein became a consulting chef for Delta Air Lines.
Bernstein won the James Beard Foundation Award for best chef in the South in 2008. Bernstein's third restaurant arrived in 2008, called SRA. Martinez, a tapas restaurant in the Miami Design District. Bernstein operates a Miami chapter of Common Threads.
In 2011, Bernstein opened Crumb on Parchment, a café in the Miami Design District.
In April 2015, she debuted her TV show "SoFlo Taste."
