River Twice welcomes Alexandra Holt of Roxanne
Alexandra Holt grew up with a single mom with a government job. They moved every year to a new country or state until she went to boarding school for highschool in France. Holt graduated from CIA in 2013 for baking & pastry, working in NYC, Chicago, D.C., and Baltimore each for a year. In 2018 she moved to Stuttgart, Germany to take a job as pastry chef of a two michelin starred restaurant and also run the pastry department of the hotel it was located in. Her time there gave her the opportunity to work throughout Europe as well as some pastry in Iceland. When the pandemic hit she pivoted to working as a butcher. Holt came to Philly in 2021. She established her own catering, wholesale, and pop-up business called Pastry Slut. Holt decided put down roots in Philadelphia and open her first restaurant - Roxanne, named after her mother. Named among Esquire's best new restaurants in America 2022