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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"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hector Jimenez-Bravo – Awards )〕 award. ==Biography== 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Chef Data Base )〕 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.〔 In 2006 Jimenez-Bravo became a chef at Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, St. Petersburg.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Talk of The Town )〕 His work brought to the hotel Radisson the «Best Hotel Restaurant Award» from magazine "TimeOut". After his arrival to St. Petersburg, he surprised the city with the opening of a «Nuevo Latino» concept, which was very unknown and new to the city. In 2006 the G8 Summit took place in St. Petersburg, where Jimenez-Bravo had a difficult task serving heads of the world's leading countries.〔 After Russia, in 2007, Jimenez-Bravo moved back to Canada, where he took a lead on the kitchen at the Delta Hotels & Resorts in Fredericton.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Delta Fredericton's chef named Culinary Ambassador )〕 In 2008, Hector left to Maldives〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=W Retreat N Spa Maldives )〕 to lead the kitchens of the most famous Hotels in Asia. There he was the Director of Cuisine at "W Retreat & SPA"〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Retreat & Spa – Maldives: Chefs Win First Culinary Awards For The Property )〕 and the "Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort & SPA" hotels. Traveling to Singapore and Hong Kong, Hector studied the culture of Chinese and Malay cuisines, and was part of the "Task Force" for the openings of the "W Hong Kong"〔〔 and the "St. Regis Singapore" hotels. In 2009, Hector Jimenez-Bravo received an offer from the international hotel chain InterContinental Hotels Group to open restaurants at the five-star hotel InterContinental Kyiv〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=InterContinental Kiev Opens in Ukraine's Historic Capital )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hotel News in Brief )〕 in Ukraine, where he created and implemented the concepts of all the restaurants. Aside from the hotel, Hector developed concepts for several restaurants of the owning company.〔 At the end of 2010, he developed restaurant concepts and kitchen technology for the Fairmont Grand Hotel Kyiv,〔 as well as other prestigious hotels in Kyiv. From September 2011, Hector has been involved into several culinary projects on Ukrainian television, primarily STV channel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hector Jimenez-Bravo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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