Restaurant 1833 names decorated Jason Franey as new executive chef amid crazy-eventful year for parent company.

Coastal Luxury Management has a new star in its orbit.

Restaurant 1833 has named a new executive chef to replace departed Abby Burk, and Jason Franey brings a mean resume with him that includes no fewer than three James Beard nominations.

He most recently ran the kitchen at award-winning Canlis restaurant in Seattle.

In 2011, Food & Wine magazine named him one of the country's Best New Chefs.

His 20-year career includes time as executive sous chef at San Francisco’s Campton Place, working for Chef Daniel Humm.

In 2006, he joined Humm as executive sous in New York to reinvent Eleven Madison Park into the beacon it's become.

Franey's been at Canlis since 2008, where he's earned a “People’s Best New Chef Northwest” from Food & Wine and was nominated by the James Beard Foundation as a finalist for "Best Chef: Northwest” the past three years, a mouthwatering feat by itself.

In 2013, he was named one of 161 Relais & Châteaux Grands Chefs in the world. 

In other 1833 news, former beverage director Michael Lay is back as “chief of booze” for all of CLM’s concepts—from Vegas to L.A. to Pebble Beach—and will select a new resident bar master and sommelier soon.

With the addition of the new team will come an entirely new menu, plus brand-new cocktails and a new wine program.

The move is the latest in a 2014 filled with major breakthroughs and plot twists.

In January, absurdly ambitious Rose. Rabbit. Lie. debuted in Las Vegas, and was soon named one of the “Best New Restaurants” in Las Vegas by Zagat and Modern Luxury.

Faith & Flower opened in March 2014 in downtown Los Angeles and was recently honored by Esquire magazine as one of America’s best new restaurants and deservedly won cocktail of the year for Lay's incredible English milk punch.

In April, Pebble Beach Food & Wine celebrated its seventh year, and in June CLM co-founder Rob Weakley took a stunning buyout to clear the way for a partnership with Charles and Ali Banks of Terroir.

August merely marked the Fourth Annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival.

Key field generals Tobias Peach and William Townsend left to start their own restaurant consulting outfit, PeachTown, nearly luring Lay along with them.

Franey starts mid-December.

CLM pledges further details on the growing team at 1833 in the coming months.