Seamus Mullen is an award-winning New York chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. Known for his inventive, approachable, and modern Spanish cuisine, Seamus has earned critical acclaim as one of the leading chefs in the country. He rose to national prominence first in 2006 with the opening of Boqueria, a highly successful tapas restaurant in New York’s Flatiron District, and again in 2009, as one of 3 finalists on the popular Food Network series “The Next Iron Chef.”

In August 2011, Seamus opened his first solo restaurant, Tertulia, in Manhattan’s West Village. A runaway success, Tertulia was awarded 2-stars from The New York Times, 3-stars from New York Magazine, and was a finalist for one of the industry’s highest honors, the James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant. He is also a contributing columnist to Everyday with Rachael Ray, and a regularly featured judge on the James Beard award-winning Food Network series “Chopped” In 2012, Seamus released his first cookbook “Hero Food: How Cooking with Delicious Things Can Make Us Feel Better,” published by Andrews Mcmeel.

Inspired by the charming sidrerias, or cider houses, of Asturias in northern Spain, Chef Mullen opened Tertulia in August 2011 in New York’s West Village. Guests and critics alike were instantly drawn to the restaurant’s warm, casual, inviting spirit and Chef Mullen’s distinct and modern take on Spanish food. Using only the best ingredients available, Chef Mullen has created a menu that both honors and innovates upon Spanish culinary tradition, featuring a variety of traditional tapas, small plates to share, and family-style platters, including Tertulia’s much celebrated
paellas and chuletón.

Hero Food

“This gorgeous book proves without a doubt the point I’ve been making for years:
Healthy food is delicious!”
– Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat

“Unlike any ‘health’ cookbook, Hero Food is fundamentally culinary: the Tertulia chef cooks with an intuition for product and place – with a passion that comes from a creativity,
and a body, renewed.”
– Emily Bell, StarChefs

Hero Food is Chef Seamus Mullen’s first cookbook. More than just a collection of  130 recipes, it is also an intimate portrait of his own journey with food, from his upbringing in rural Vermont to his formative years in Spain, to his present-day battle with rheumatoid arthritis, an auto-immune disease. Hero Food is Chef Mullen’s personal philosophy of well-being, illustrating how he believes delicious food and wellness can go hand in hand.