Hector Jimenez-Bravo
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Héctor Ismael Jiménez Bravo
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Héctor Ismael Jiménez Bravo 14 January 1972 Bucaramanga, Colombia |
| Education | National Service of Learning (Colombia) |
| Website | www |
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| Cooking style | French / Latin America / Asian / American / Canadian |
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Héctor Ismael Jiménez-Bravo (Spanish: Héctor Ismael Jiménez-Bravo, born 14 January 1972 in Bucaramanga, Colombia) is a Canadian chef of Colombian origin, business man, TV presenter, judge at the TV project "Master Chef Ukraine", "Ukraine's Got Talent", and culinary arts lecturer. He is founder of Bravo Restaurant Group Company. He also received the prestigious "The World Master Chef" award.
Hector Jimenez-Bravo was born and raised in Colombia. In the words of the chef himself, his mother has encouraged him to cook. He was interested not only in the procedure of cooking but also in its aesthetic side. In high school, he was into fine arts, which woke-up his creative side. Later on he did enroll into the Culinary Arts Program from the National Learning Service in Bogota, from where he has graduated. After in 1992 began to work in the best 5 star hotels of Colombia, such as the "Hotel Charleston Casa Medina", "Metrotel Royal Park" from Royal Hotels.
In 1995–1999 he lectured Culinary Arts at National Learning Service of Medellin.
At the age of 27, he was offered to become a Chef of Restaurants at one of the most luxurious hotels in the USA – Hilton Boston Back Bay in Boston. He then became the youngest chef at this Hilton. At first days of his work, colleagues did not perceived Hector seriously, because of his youthful age, but soon they encountered his professionalism. According to Hector Jimenez-Bravo, the work in the U.S. had a powerful influence on him, and divided his career into two parts – before and after Hilton.
After one of private dinners at the Hilton organized for a group of hoteliers from Canada, he was invited to work in Ottawa. Hector was offered a contract to open at The Marshes Golf Club. After a little more than 2 years he made a move to open the restaurant "Foundation" in the Canadian capital.
The restaurants led by Hector, more than once made the top 10 best restaurants in Canada. After 6 years in Canada, Jimenez-Bravo took the citizenship of this country.
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