Ethan Stowell is an American chef and restaurateur. Based in Seattle, his restaurants include Goldfinch Tavern, How to Cook a Wolf, Red Cow, Rione XIII, and TavolÃÂ ta. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Ethan Stowell Restaurants.
Stowell owned 13 restaurants in Seattle, as of 2016.
In 2008, he was named Best New Chef by Food & Wine. In 2020, he was a semifinalist in the James Beard Foundation Award's Outstanding Restaurateur category.
Stowell is the son of ballet dancer Francia Russell and her husband, Kent Stowell.