Juan Amador

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Juan Amador in his restaurant in the 19th district of Vienna.
Juan Amador, 2018

Juan de la Cruz Amador Perez (born December 10, 1968 in Strümpfelbach ) is a German chef .

biography

Juan Amador is the son of Spanish guest workers . After training with Walter Hofmann at the Gasthof Lamm in Strümpfelbach and two other jobs at the Hotel Alter Wirt in Grünwald near Munich and at the Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe , Schwarzwaldhochstrasse , he switched to Albert Bouley at the Waldhorn in Ravensburg in 1990 , where he became sous chef . In 1993 he became head chef at the Petersilie restaurant in Lüdenscheid , which was awarded a Michelin star . In 1997 he moved to the Fährhaus Munkmarsch restaurant on Sylt (one Michelin star). His next position as head chef, the Carême restaurant (self-confidently named after one of the most important chefs of his time, Marie-Antoine Carême ) in the Schlosshotel Die Weyberhöfe in Sailauf near Aschaffenburg received another star in 2000, followed by a second Michelin star in 2002.

In February 2004 he opened his own restaurant Amador in Langen near Frankfurt am Main . It has been awarded three Michelin stars since the 2008 Michelin Guide. In 2007, his second restaurant Tasca in Wiesbaden also received a Michelin star. Two years later he had to close the Tasca for lack of economic success. From July 2009 to June 2011 he ran the Amesa in Mannheim , which was also awarded a Michelin star in 2009. In August 2011 the Amador restaurant moved to the former Amesa in Mannheim . There it was again awarded three stars in November 2011. In November 2012, Amador AG had to file for bankruptcy; the restaurant business continued, however.

From December 2013 to June 2017, Amador was also the patron of the Sra Bua by Juan Amador restaurant , which had an Asian-European concept. In May 2015 he closed his Amador restaurant in Mannheim. In the same year, the Alma restaurant opened at the Goodwood Park Hotel in Singapore , for which Amador contributed the culinary concept and which was also awarded a Michelin star in 2016.

In April 2016 Amador opened in Vienna Restaurant Amador in the 19th district, which by the end of 2017 as Amador's tavern and general store was operated. The restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars in 2017. A third Michelin star followed in 2019, as the first restaurant in Austria. In 2016 he was an opponent of Tim Mälzer in the TV cooking format Kitchen Impossible .

In November 2017, he acted as a guest judge on the fifth episode of the fifth season of The Taste . In spring 2017, he accompanied the conceptual implementation of the Kitch Bar & Grill . The restaurant was nicknamed by Juan Amador. The collaboration was resolved by Amador in December 2017. In 2018 he was seen again at Kitchen Impossible , this time as one of the jurors of Mälzer's assignment in Vienna.

style

During his time in Langen from 2004 onwards, Amador focused more and more on the then new methods of molecular cuisine , which are derived from the influences of the chemical and food industries and enable new types of consistencies, compositions and flavors. In his creative workshop, Amador also experimented with devices from laboratory supplies that, with precise measurement technology, allowed cooking processes lasting several days, for example.

The basis of the recipes was the classic cuisine of Catalonia , France and the Basque Country . Amador himself emphasized several times that he was in line with the Spanish role models Ferran Adrià and Juan Mari Arzak . In the opinion of the restaurant critic Jürgen Dollase , Amador differs from them in that it "often tastes much better with him than with the Spanish competition ."

Memberships

Awards

  • 2005: Restaurant of the year, restaurant guide Der Feinschmecker
  • 2008–2015: Three stars in the Michelin Guide for the Amador restaurant
  • 2008: 1st place in the category "The Avant-garde", Koch der Kche Voting on restaurant-ranglisten.de
  • 2016: One star in the Michelin Guide for the Alma restaurant in Singapore
  • 2017: Two stars in the Michelin Guide for the Amadors Wirtshaus und Greißlerei restaurant
  • 2019: Three stars in the Michelin Guide for the Amador restaurant (formerly Amador's Wirtshaus und Greißlerei )

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Juan Amador, patron of the Amador in Faak am See. Gourmet-Portal GmbH, accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Goerlich: Wiesbaden: Juan Amador closes the Tasca. Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, March 20, 2009, accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Highlights / History. Amador AG, archived from the original on October 7, 2011 ; accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ bankruptcy. (No longer available online.) Gourmet-Portal GmbH, archived from the original on November 30, 2012 ; accessed on August 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Out for Sra Bua by Juan Amador. Gourmet-Portal GmbH, June 6, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Alma by Juan Amador. Company website. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Amador Restaurant. Company website. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Juan Amador gets two stars in Vienna. Gourmet-Portal GmbH, March 7, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Austria's first three-star restaurant. ORF.at , March 27, 2019, accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Bernhard Degen: "Kitch" -Gastronomy in Economic Needs - Falstaff. Falstaff Verlags-GmbH, January 10, 2018, accessed on March 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Alexander Rabl: Juan Amador: What comes after molecular cuisine. Courier , April 27, 2012, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Jürgen Dollase: "Ascended into the three-star heaven" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 14, 2007, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Amador, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amador Perez, Juan de la Cruz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cook
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Strümpfelbach (Weinstadt)