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Michael Voltaggio (born September 29, 1978) is an American chef residing in Pasadena, California. Voltaggio is the winner of the sixth season of ''Top Chef'', Bravo's cooking competition reality show, where he competed with his brother, Bryan Voltaggio. The two ended in the finale, alongside Kevin Gillespie, with Michael winning the contest. ''Top Chef ''Head Judge Tom Colicchio said of Voltaggio, “Out of all the cooks that have come through the show, Michael is the most talented—both from a sensibility and technical standpoint. He has the chops to pull off what he’s trying to do.” Voltaggio did not have the money to attend culinary school. Instead, he did a long apprenticeship in The Greenbrier's prestigious culinary apprenticeship program. Michael completed his Greenbrier apprenticeship under Certified Master Chef Peter Timmins at the age of 21. He later held jobs at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Naples, Florida under chef Peter Timmins〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=People - Michael Voltaggio )〕 and Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Michael )〕 During his tenure as Chef de Cuisine at ''The Bazaar'' by Jose Andres, the restaurant was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant in 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2009 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARDS RESTAURANT AND CHEF SEMIFINALISTS UNVEILED )〕 Voltaggio was the Chef de Cuisine at ''The Dining Room'', Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Hotel Restaurant in Pasadena - The Dining Room at The Langham Huntington Pasadena, Los Angeles )〕 which received several culinary awards, including the AAA Five Diamond Award, the Mobil Five-Star Award, and a Michelin Star, one of the few held by restaurants in the US. Voltaggio left The Dining Room in 2010 and announced plans to open his own restaurant in West Hollywood, CA, in a space owned by former Hollywood superagent Michael Ovitz.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Voltaggio Announces New Restaurant )〕 After several delays, the highly successful ink. opened on September 21, 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First Taste )〕 Voltaggio's goal with the restaurant was to create what he called "modern Los Angeles cuisine."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KevinEats Review of ink. )〕 The restaurant seats 60 in the dining room with a private room that can accommodate an additional 10 guests.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Voltaggio Opens ink. on Wed, Here's A Looksee )〕 It was named America's best new restaurant by GQ Magazine in March 2012. While publicly developing and readying ink. for its highly anticipated debut, Voltaggio was quietly planning a smaller restaurant around the corner, a sandwich shop called ink.sack. Voltaggio designed and built the shop himself and surprised the culinary world when he opened the small restaurant with little notice or fanfare on August 11, 2011. Voltaggio appeared in September, 2010 on the finale of season seven of ''Top Chef'' and as a guest judge in Season 3 of Top Chef Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet the five Toronto contestants on Top Chef Canada season three )〕 Michael is divorced from Kerri Adams, with whom he has two daughters, Olivia and Sophia. His daughters live in Lewisburg, West Virginia with their mother. In the TV series Arrow he was mentioned in the first season episode "Betrayal", although not by name, as putting in an application as a chef at Oliver Queen's new nightclub: "This guy looks pretty good; he won Top Chef season six." Michael's sous chef, Mei Lin, won Top Chef Boston. ==External links== *(ink. Restaurant website ) 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「Michael Voltaggio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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