Amanda Rockman

I have been a pastry chef for over 20 years. Woah- that is a lot of cookies.

When I was 15, I dreamt of becoming a pastry chef. It wasn’t that I was a savant baker at a young age, I just loved chocolate that much. The road to learning the craft of baking and pastry was a long one- leaving Texas where I grew up to go to the Culinary Institute of America in New York to working across the US in San Francisco, Chicago, and Austin. I have had the pleasure to work for incredible chefs and mentors in a variety of different settings: from a three star Michelin restaurant to a five star five diamond hotel and too many Italian restaurants to count.

I returned to Austin in 2015 with the opportunity to reestablish my Texas roots and opened the South Congress Hotel with New Waterloo which I called my work home for over nine years. After opening restaurants and hotels for other people for over 24 years, I opened Rockman Coffee + Bakeshop in 2024.