Founder/Chef
A French Culinary Institute graduate, Daniel specializes in Italian cuisine and has worked in some of New York’s most highly esteemed kitchens, including Lupa, Babbo, and Quality Meats. Most recently he worked as Sous Chef for Otto Restaurant Enoteca Pizzeria and Executive Chef for the Italian Wine Merchants. Daniel’s desire to further enhance his international culinary perspective has led him to kitchens all over the world. In Foixa, Spain he worked with Felicitat Rutlan at Can Quel, and he is the Executive Chef of his newest project, Vera, an Italian inspired restaurant in Designer Silvia Tcherassi’s debut Hotel & Spa in Cartagena de Indias.
Daniel is the Executive Chef and Partner at Emilia Romagna in his hometown, Bogotá, Colombia, which was named Best New Restaurant by the Revista La Barra in 2009.
Daniel co-founded a razor, a shiny knife with Michael J Cirino in the summer of 2007 over many a drunken Sunday bocce game spent talking about the dinner they would cook after the sunset. He has been in Colombia for too long and should come back to New York soon for all of our sakes.
Next generation cooking lessons from America’s trendiest foodies « ooh.com
on May 19th, 2010
@ 05:37:
[...] by a razor, a sharp knife founders, Daniel Castaño and the moustached Michael Cirino (see above), the first of these events will be held in [...]