ROB ANDERSON

Rob Anderson is a chef, writer and divinity student.

In 2013, Rob left his desk job as a journalist to open the Canteen, a small Provincetown restaurant he co-founded with his partner, Loïc Rossignon. What began as a scrappy start-up grew into a beloved, community-centered institution and year-round economic engine on Cape Cod. Today, the Canteen is proudly led by a team of LGBTQIA, female, immigrant, and PoC workers—proof that a restaurant can do good while doing well.

Rob grew up outside Detroit and studied American and African American Studies at Georgetown University, where he co-led a campaign to establish the school’s first LGBTQ student support center—a landmark achievement at a Catholic university. He began his professional life as an opinion journalist, working for The New Republic, The Washington Post, the Center for American Progress and The Boston Globe. Rob’s most recent writing appears in The Atlantic.

Now based between Cambridge and the Cape, Rob is pursuing graduate study at Harvard Divinity School, exploring how different spiritual traditions find the sacred in everyday life — from how and what we eat to who and how we love.

Rob holds a master degree in journalism from Columbia University and a grand diplôme in culinary arts from the International Culinary Center. He lives with Loïc and their mini-labradoodle, Tato, who ensures that no project—entrepreneurial, culinary or spiritual—ever gets too serious.