Omar Allibhoy is a Spanish/Indian

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. He has previously worked at

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. He is the founder of the Tapas Revolution group. He opened his first restaurant at

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in 2011.

Early life and education

Omar Allibhoy was born near Madrid, Spain and began to cook when he was five years old. He is of Indian Muslim descent through his father's side (hence his Muslim name and surname) and Spanish through his mother's side. He started taking evening cooking classes while still at school.

Career

After working at several restaurants near where he lived, he gained a position at

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and worked there for two years. In 2008, he joined the team at

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. He had originally come to the UK to learn English, as he felt this was necessary to learn how to cook other cuisines. Ramsay described him as the "

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of cooking". After he left, he started the restaurant El Pirata Detapas in Mayfair. He then founded the Tapas Revolution restaurant group, wanting to promote Spanish cuisine in the UK as he felt that there were only poor examples available at the time, admitting that this was the complete opposite to his original objective in the UK. His first location was opened at

in Shepherd's Bush in 2011, and by 2015 he had three locations with plans to open two more. He wrote a cookbook, also entitled Tapas Revolution, published by Ebury Press. This was part of his objective to promote the home cooking of Spanish tapas style dishes in the UK. He took part in the Rumble in the Kitchen charity boxing event, where he fought Stefan Chomka, the deputy editor of ''

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'' magazine. The card also featured

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, Monica Galetti and Will Holland. At the British Travel & Hospitality Hall of Fame event in April 2015, he was named the Young Entrepreneur inductee for his work with the Tapas Revolution Group.

References

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