On March 23, 2025, tragedy struck Gianna Buzzetta, an executive pastry chef who worked at the Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad.

Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad will donate all proceeds from its April 7 dinner service to medical and burial costs for its former pastry chef ...

Gianna Buzzetta, a 26-year-old Southern California pastry chef, died after being struck by a tumbling boulder at Makaleha ...

According to her family, she had been living out a lifelong dream of visiting the waterfall when the tragic accident occurred.

Family members say Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was on vacation in Kaua‘i with her boyfriend when the incident occurred on March 23. Kaua‘i Fire Department says it received a call around 2pm about an injured ...

Executive pastry chef for California-based restaurant Jeune et Jolie, Gianna Buzzetta, recently died on March 24, 2025, following an incident at the Makaleha Falls Trail in Hawaii the previous day.

The Michelin-starred restaurant will raise money for Buzzetta’s medical and burial expenses on Monday, April 7. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune) When Oceanside native Gianna Buzzetta ...

Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was hit by the falling debris on March 23 as she was checking out the Makaleha Falls waterfall in Kauai with boyfriend Connor Quinton, who was described as her “soon-to-be ...

Gianna Buzzetta was hiking with her boyfriend when the accident took place on Sunday, March 23 Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KGTV) — Gianna Buzzetta, a 26-year-old rising culinary star and executive pastry chef at the Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad, California, died last ...

When Oceanside native Gianna Buzzetta landed the prestigious job of pastry chef at Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad in the summer of 2022, she was just 23 years old.