Meet Chef Charles Semail

Chef Charles is originally from Chartres, France. He started his culinary education as an apprentice from ages 14-18, first in Chartres, then in culinary school.

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In the US, he worked as a chef and restaurant owner in Palm Beach, Florida, Lexington, Kentucky, and Culver City, California. Then, Charles and his family moved to Charlotte in 1994.

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Executive chef at Quail Hollow Club, he leads the opening of Dean and Deluca’s franchise locations in Charlotte.

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Chef Charles Catering started in 2002. He was a personal chef and became the team chef for the Carolina Panthers for 13 years.
With his team, he served 2000+ people on Game Days.

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He began doing inflight catering for private aviation clients in 2013 and his commercial kitchen is only 8 minutes away from the CLT airport

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