Regine Bigler is the executive Sous Chef at NeueHouse Madison Square. She was born on a small farm in Switzerland. Creatively, Regine was heavily influenced by her vegetable-growing mother who grew food to sustain her family before “sustainability” was a buzzword. She stopped eating meat in 1995 and that opened her tastebuds to a whole new world of flavors. Her search for creative vegetable expressions, along with a passion for travel, encourages her to keep expanding her palate. She continues to eat, cook, read, and grow all things vegetable. Regine’s career was never stagnant and always moving towards creative expression.

Her teenage urge to break out of farm life took her to the nearby city of Bern where she managed movie theaters and helped to bring them into the digital age. Encouraged by her success in Bern, and motivated by a love of challenges, she moved to NYC in 2000 where she started her New York journey by managing a rundown youth hostel in East Harlem. Her desire to work in the arts pushed her into a management position at the iconic Sunshine Cinema for the next nine years. In 2016, hungry to further express her creativity, she turned to a professional career in the kitchen. In 2018, she started collaborating on all things plant-based with Chef Morgan Jarrett at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and moved up the ranks to the position of Sous Chef. This is where Regine really tapped into her passion, and, despite the Covid pandemic, she volunteered at a food pantry and held several pop-up food events to hone her skills and bring awareness to the natural beauty of vegetables.