According to Gordon Ramsay, “Cooking today is a young man’s game.” But is cheffing? Ordinarily it takes over a decade to climb the back-of-the-house ladder. At the front of a pack of young gun local chefs, though, stands 26-year-old Willie Eick of 608 Restaurant (608 Mission Ave.) in Oceanside. At the core of Eick’s game are creativity, passion and courage, but also a mature respect for his ingredients.
