Michael Bonacini (born March 1, 1960) is a Welsh-Canadian chef of

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family origins who owns eleven restaurants (including Jump, Canoe, Luma, and Bannock) in

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, Ontario, and is a co-founder of Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants. Bonacini trained in

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and immigrated to Canada in 1985. He founded his first restaurant, Jump, with business partner Peter Oliver in 1993. Bonacini is a judge on the television cooking competition ''

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'' and the host of ''Bonacini's Italy'', a cooking program featuring cuisines from different regions of Italy cooked by Bonacini. He was also featured on ''Cook Like A Chef'' and was the resident chef for ''

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1960 births Living people Canadian television chefs Participants in Canadian reality television series Welsh people of Italian descent Welsh emigrants to Canada Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian chefs {{Chef-bio-stub