Chef Brian Aaron finds family in the kitchen

The smallest omelet chef in Lenexa was finished with his prep work. The little piles of onions and peppers had been chopped and diced, and the eggs had been cracked. The pan was hot. He just needed his mom to give him a hand, although not in the way you’re probably thinking.

“My mom tells this story,” says chef Brian Aaron. “I was 4 or 5, and she asked what I wanted for breakfast. Eggs. How do you want them? My way. Then I pushed my little chair over to the stove, and she had to hold onto the back of my pants to keep me from burning my belly.”

The chef at Tannin Wine Bar and Kitchen will tell you that a kitchen is like a family — a philosophy that took root while he was taking omelet orders in his own family’s kitchen.