Christian is a chef, restaurateur and TV personality from the Bronx, NYC. He is a recurring judge on Food Network’s Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay and previously the Executive Chef and part-owner of Fortina, an Italian restaurant chain operating three locations in New York and Connecticut, with a fourth opening late-2016. Christian is the youngest Chef in the Hudson Valley, NY to have received a rating of “Excellent” from the New York Times and is a frequent guest cook at The James Beard House.
Prior to Fortina, Christian was the Executive Chef and Partner of Barcelona Wine Bar & Restaurant in Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated from the New York Restaurant School for Culinary Arts where he spent his summers cooking in Naples, Italy.
In this episode, we will take the full half hour going from a coffee bar in Manhattan, to the University of Coffee in Northern Italy and back again to New York.