Cultural fusion cuisine, foraged ingredients, and meals that gather people around the table — wherever in the world the table happens to be.
Gio started in restaurant kitchens at twenty-one — washing dishes, then learning every station, then cooking for private tables and traveling retreats. Almost eight years later, the through-line is the same: feed people well, and feed them with intention.
His cooking is cultural fusion — woven from Mexican and Ethiopian traditions where nothing is wasted and flavor is built through time and natural processes — layered with foraged local ingredients and an Ayurvedic eye for balancing the six flavors.
He learned to love food at home. His parents cooked together as an act of love, and that's the kitchen he still tries to bring to every table — Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Peru, Guatemala, Belize, Arizona, and wherever's next.
"My food is approachable and deeply layered with flavor. Similar to that of food from your grandmother — inviting and never intimidating."
Gio arrives at your home with fresh ingredients, cooks everything from scratch, and shares the stories behind each dish — where the herb was picked, why this spice meets that one. A meal, and an experience.
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Nourishing, on-time meals that connect your guests with their retreat experience through their gut. Groups of 8 to 100. Yoga retreats, wellness retreats, corporate offsites, multi-day events, destination events, and small weddings.
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Menus are built around whoever is at the table. Tell Gio what your people need and he'll design around it.
The kitchen changes. The intention doesn't. Wherever the retreat, the dinner, the gathering — Gio shows up, sources locally, and cooks for the place he's in.
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The fastest way to reach Gio is WhatsApp. For private dinners and retreat bookings, please fill out the intake form first so he has what he needs to design the right experience for you.
Based in Puerto Rico. Available worldwide.