Chefs Josh Habiger and Mathew Meeker Team Up for Special Meals at Bastion Former cook at Butcher & Bee, Husk and Peninsula plans multicourse feast for second pop-up Tweet Share Chef Mathew Meeker is finally ready for his closeup. Meeker started out in the kitchen at Butcher & Bee before stints working at Husk and Peninsula, and he has spent the past year working with Sean Brock on new projects while planning his own future restaurant venture. The native West Tennessean was inspired by Ferran Adrià’s book A Day at El Bulli as a youth and decided he wanted to enter the world of cooking.