For a local kid who remembers his mother always being in the kitchen, Michael Sandoval now has a kitchen of his own. And what an impressive kitchen it is. The Las Vegas native is chef de cuisine at Chef Thomas Keller’s award-winning bistro Bouchon in California’s Napa Valley, Yountville to be exact. How impressive is this? Sandoval is working for Keller who has won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation and is the only American chef to have been awarded simultaneous three-star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants. Very simply, Sandoval, who graduated from Centennial High School in 2002 and began his culinary career at the College of Southern Nevada, is working for one of the most noted and celebrated chefs in the country.