Roberto Treviño is an American chef known for his appearances on Iron Chef: America and The Next Iron Chef. He is chef and owner of three restaurants and a bar in the Condado area of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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| Cooking style | Nuevo Latino, Fusion, Latin-Asian, Criollo Boricua |
Current restaurant(s)
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Television show(s)
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| Website | www |
Personal life edit
Treviño was born and raised in Sunnyvale, California. He became fascinated with the kitchen when he began working as a young cook in the San Francisco Bay Area while he was still in high school.
Career edit
Treviño moved to Puerto Rico in the early 1990s to work as a chef for the inauguration of the El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. In 1996 he quit his job at El Conquistador to open The Parrot Club, a Nuevo Latino restaurant in Old San Juan, where he served as Executive Chef. Following the success of The Parrot Club, Treviño opened two more restaurants in Old San Juan: Dragonfly (2000), specializing in Latin-Asian Cuisine, and Aguaviva (2002), a seafood restaurant.
In 2007, Treviño stepped down as Executive Chef of the three restaurants in Old San Juan and opened the 5,000 square foot Latin-Asian Budatai [1] in Condado as Chef / Owner. He has since opened three more locales of his own in Condado: Bar Gitano[2] which features Spanish tapas and paellas, local watering hole El Barril,[3] and his latest, the 16,000 square foot "criollo kitchen" Casa Lola.[4] His fifth restaurant in Puerto Rico, Rosa Mexicano, a collaboration with NYC restaurateur Howard Greenstone, is set to open in early 2013.
Treviño has cooked dinner at the James Beard Foundation house in New York, & Orlando for their award events, is frequently featured as a guest chef in food events throughout the US and the Caribbean, including the Aspen Food & Wine Classic, Telluride Culinary Festival and the St Croix Food and Wine Festival, and has served as guest chef on Celebrity Cruise Lines ships on several occasions.[5]
He has made numerous television appearances both in Puerto Rico and the US, including a battle against renowned Chef Mario Batali on Iron Chef: America, as a contestant on The Next Iron Chef,[6] with Rachael Ray on her show $40 a Day, as well as on his own local shows Kandela and the currently running 4 Minutos con Chef Treviño [7] on WIPR-TV.
In late 2011 Treviño launched CookShop,[8] a production company specializing in television production and live events. Up to date CookShop has produced Treviño's series 4 Minutos con Chef Treviño and presented the Food & Fashion Festival,[9] a once a year event which was attended by more than 3,000 guests on its inaugural date.
References edit
- ^ "Budatai San Juan Restaurant Review | Fodor's". Fodors.com. 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
- ^ [1] Archived September 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "El Barril San Juan Review | Fodor's". Fodors.com. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
- ^ Puerto Rico. "Casa Lola Criollo Kitchen, San Juan - Restaurant Reviews". TripAdvisor. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
- ^ "Roberto Trevino - Budatai, San Juan". www.culinaryhalloffame.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ "Roberto Trevino : Chefs". Food Network. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
- ^ "4 minutos con chef Treviño (2012– )". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
- ^ "CookShop [pr]". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
- ^ "Condado Food and Fashion Festival". Discovering Puerto Rico. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2013-10-07.