Meet Chef Angie

Meet the Owner

Chef Angie Jimenez

Jimenez, a single mother of four, moved to Lawrence permanently from the Dominican Republic in the early ‘90s. Her passion for cooking began with her mother and aunt. “I helped them start their own little diner, about 20 some years ago, here in Lawrence. They ran it and I helped and that’s when I started to see I liked it.” “Then I watched the movie Julie and Julia and I really fell in love, so I decided to go to school after that.” Jimenez graduated from Le Cordon Bleu of Culinary Arts in Boston and truly began to pursue her dreams. “I was in the business (of catering) a while already, but I wanted to have more techniques and learn more,” she says.

When Chef Angie was in the catering business, she specialized in appetizers using fresh, natural ingredients. She was also perfecting her line of pastelitos or empanadas. With her cooking experience she can share with you her technique and you can learn how to cook some of her specialities including breakfast pastelitos which includes black forest ham, scrambled eggs, and gouda cheese. You can learn how to prepare pastelitos using fresh tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, basil pesto and reduced balsamic. Bocaditos by Angie can also train you on making homemade desserts and paninis using combinations of all healthy ingredients to give the best taste.