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Number 27 on the 2025 list
Ope Amosu is a founder and chef from Nigeria, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for becoming a James Beard semifinalist and landing ChòpnBlọk on Esquire's Best New Restaurants.
In 2025 Ope Amosu was a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef: Texas and won a StarChefs Houston Rising Stars award for ChòpnBlọk, his West African restaurant in Houston. In September the James Beard Foundation hosted him in New York for a Nigerian Independence Day dinner, and in December Esquire named ChòpnBlọk one of its 33 Best New Restaurants in America, the only one in Texas. His parents emigrated from Nigeria.