Michael Bonacini
Michael Bonacini | |
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| Born | 1 March 1960 Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
| Spouse | Valerie Bonacini |
| Children | 1 |
| Culinary career | |
Current restaurants | |
| Jump Canoe Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants | |
Television shows | |
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Award | |
| Ontario Hostelry Institution GOLD Award | |
Michael Bonacini (born March 1, 1960) is a Welsh-Canadian chef of Italian family origins who owns eleven restaurants (including Jump, Canoe, Luma, and Bannock) in Toronto, Ontario, and is a co-founder of Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants. Bonacini trained in London and immigrated to Canada in 1985. He founded his first restaurant, Jump, with business partner Peter Oliver in 1993.
From 2014 to 2021, Bonacini was a judge on the television cooking competition MasterChef Canada. He was also the host of Bonacini's Italy, a cooking program featuring cuisines from different regions of Italy cooked by Bonacini, was featured on Cook Like A Chef and was the resident chef for The Marilyn Denis Show.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Michael Bonacini". The Marilyn Denis Show. Bell Media Television. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ↑ 'MasterChef Canada' Introduces Judges Claudio Aprile, Michael Bonacini, and Alvin Leung
- ↑ Bonacini's Italy on Gusto TV
- ↑ "Cook Like A Chef". Bell Media. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017.
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