About

JENNIFER HWA DOBBERTIN

Chef/Owner

Jennifer Dobbertin collaborated on the Asian fusion concept that would become Hot Joy, refining the menu through pop-ups before opening a full-service restaurant in 2013. By 2014, Bon Appétit had named Hot Joy one of the top ten new restaurants in the nation. 

Dobbertin left Hot Joy in 2016 to open a fast-casual ramen concept (the first in San Antonio) called Tenko Ramen, located in the Food Hall at the Bottling Department of the Historic Pearl. 

In 2018, Dobbertin, wanting to address the sparsity of Asian-American female chefs in South Texas, developed a new concept through a series of pop-up dinners called Best Quality Daughter with fellow chef Anne Ng and artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk.  As the pop-ups evolved into plans for a brick and mortar, she moved forward with the test kitchen and menu development.  Best Quality Daughter is now open inside the historic Mueller House, at The Pearl Brewery.