Another year, another new chef for Cook St. Paul, the little diner with the big heart on St. Paul’s East Side.

Kat Nelson, whose resume includes stints at Wise Acre Eatery, Strip Club Meat and Fish, Surly Beer Hall and Tullibee, will replace current chef Mitch Robbie. Robbie started at Cook about a year ago.

“We feel like (Nelson’s) experience, drive and ideas for where Cook St. Paul can go are going to take us to delicious new places in 2018,” owner Eddie Wu said in a news release.