Claudio Aprile
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| Born | 23 January 1969 |
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| Website | www.instagram.com |
Claudio Aprile (born 23 January 1969) is a Uruguayan–Canadian celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and TV personality of Italian descent best known for serving as a judge on CTV's culinary competition MasterChef Canada from 2014 to 2021. Having owned and worked at multiple Michelin-starred restaurants as a professional corporate chef over the years, he served as the head chef, owner and manager of multiple Toronto restaurants, such as Colborne Lane, the Origin chain, Copetin and Xango, which closed down in 2023. He serves as the Culinary Director of Via Allegro Ristorante in Etobicoke, Toronto.[1]
Claudio Aprile was born in Uruguay, and raised in Toronto. He has worked in professional, multi-Michelin starred restaurant kitchens as a professional chef internationally. Aprile began cooking at 14 years old.[2] He never received formal training for becoming a chef. As a child, he informed his mother that he would become a chef, rather than attempt to become one. At 18 he travelled to Thailand, which had a profound influence on his style of cooking. He visited 160 cities in 17 countries, before stopping in England, where he worked extensively throughout London until earning the executive position as the head chef at Bali Sugar in Notting Hill.[3][4]
Working in Bali Sugar in London earned him outstanding reviews and critical acclaim as a young chef. On returning to Toronto in 2000, Aprile continued to improve his reputation at Senses in Toronto.[5]