Adriana Urbina is a Venezuelan award winning chef consultant, with more than 12 years of experience in the restaurant industry, based in New York

She refined her talents at top international culinary institutes, including L'ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse in France and Sumito Estévez’s Instituto Culinario Caracas in Venezuela. She worked in several Michelin starred restaurants including 3 Michelin stars Martin Berasategui and Andoni Aduriz in Spain, 1 Michelin star Rouge tomate and 2 Michelin stars Atera. Additionally, she completed her studies in Holistic nutrition and gut health in the "Institute of integrative nutrition" in New York City.

With her background in fine dining and farm driven cuisine combined with her knowledge in nutrition, Chef Adriana's cooking focuses on responsibly grown and sourced local produce, with traditional Latin American flavours and a modern flare.

Her work has been featured in publications like Vice media, Forbes, Women entrepreneurs, Refinery 29, among others.

As well Urbina has competed in multiple national cooking TV shows and she is a three-time winner of Food Network’s “Chopped”; being  the only Latin-American female chef to have won the title so many times. 

Currently she develops culinary content for brands,  is a food contributor for Yahoo’s In the know media and runs her company Tepuy collective, offering curated culinary events that support food businesses representative of inclusion for corporations and brands 

Adriana is a big advocate of food waste reduction and you can Catch her on her last cooking show for Verizon Media called “Zero waste Kitchen”

Learn more about her work here.