Antonio Bachour

Antonio Bachour is a Puerto Rican pastry chef based in Miami. He grew up in his family’s bakery in Río Grande, trained at Johnson & Wales and L’École Valrhona, and worked in hotel and restaurant pastry in Puerto Rico, Miami and New York, including as corporate pastry chef for St. Regis Hotels from 2011 to 2016. He opened Bachour, a bakery-café in Coral Gables, in 2016 with his brother José; it has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2022. He now runs Bachour bakeries and restaurants in Miami, Mexico and Brazil. The Best Chef Awards named him world’s best pastry chef in 2018 and 2022, and Esquire named him best pastry chef in the United States in 2019. His books include Bachour, Bachour Chocolate, Bachour the Baker and Bachour: The New Era of Viennoiserie.