Michael Bonacini

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Michael Bonacini
Born (1960-03-01) 1 March 1960 (age 65)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales [1]
SpouseValerie Bonacini
ChildrenChef Oscar Bonacini
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
Television show(s)
Award(s) won
  • 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. [1] Bonacini trained in London and immigrated to Canada in 1985. [1] He founded his first restaurant, Jump, with business partner Peter Oliver in 1993. [1]

Bonacini is a judge on the television cooking competition MasterChef Canada [1] [2] and the host of Bonacini's Italy, a cooking program featuring cuisines from different regions of Italy cooked by Bonacini. [3] He was also featured on Cook Like A Chef and was the resident chef for The Marilyn Denis Show . [1] [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Michael Bonacini". The Marilyn Denis Show. Bell Media Television. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  2. ↑ 'MasterChef Canada' Introduces Judges Claudio Aprile, Michael Bonacini, and Alvin Leung
  3. ↑ Bonacini's Italy on Gusto TV
  4. ↑ "Cook Like A Chef". Bell Media. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017.


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