Claudio Aprile Biography
Claudio Aprile is an Uruguayan-Canadian celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and TV personality of Italian descent best known for hosting and judging CTV’s MasterChef Canada since January 2014.
How old is Claudio Aprile? – Age
He is 54 years old as of 23 January 2022. He was born in 1969 in Uruguay.
Who is Claudio Aprile’s Wife? – Husband
He is married to Heather Aprile.
Claudio Aprile’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Claudio Aprile Restaurants
Aprile opened the successful restaurant Colborne Lane in Toronto, Canada, in 2007. He opened the first Origin restaurant in Toronto in 2009. Colborne Lane, lauded for its modernist cuisine and nitrogen desserts, led the pack in terms of creativity in an otherwise unimaginative Toronto foodscape. Because of the success of the first location, he was able to open two more locations in Toronto in the following years.
Colborne Lane was named one of the best restaurants in the world, and Aprile was named one of Canada’s most innovative chefs. He switched gears with Origin restaurant after offering beautifully crafted, precisely plated fusion cuisine with molecular gastronomy at Colborne Lane.
Origin, which opened in 2010, provided fast, fresh, and accessible food to guests sitting directly across from the chef in the open kitchen. Origin was voted the best restaurant in Toronto by Toronto Life and Now magazines.
Colborne Lane was located near St. Lawrence Market on Colborne Street in Toronto. Colborne Lane, Aprile’s first restaurant, opened to immediate success and became a training ground for some of Toronto’s current top chefs, including Jonathan Poon, Steve Gonzalez, Matt Blondin, Jonathan Bower, and Romain Avril. It was named one of Canada’s top ten new restaurants by enRoute Magazine. Aprile’s restaurant was officially closed in February 2013.
Aprile became the executive chef and owner of the first Origin restaurant in 2009. The original restaurant, which was located on King Street in Toronto, opened in 2010 and closed in early 2017. Aprile went on to open two more Origin restaurants, one in Liberty Village and one in Bayview Village. The Liberty Village location first opened its doors in 2012 and closed in 2013.
Origin North Bayview Village opened in June 2013 in a two-story building in the Bayview Village mall parking lot. It was the third of Aprile’s Origin restaurants and the first to open outside of the downtown area. It was promoted in MasterChef Canada’s Season 1 Restaurant Takeover and closed in early 2016. Aprile was the owner and creative force behind the Orderfire Restaurant Group, which included Toronto’s acclaimed Origin brand restaurants, which were voted Toronto Life and Now magazine’s #1 restaurant.
Claudio Aprile Toronto Restaurant
Aprile reimagined his original Origin restaurant space in June 2017 when he opened Copetin Restaurant & Bar at the same Saint James location on King Street East in Toronto. His high-end restaurant was featured in MasterChef Canada’s Season 5 Restaurant Takeover. “Not one, not two, but four separate menus: an a la carte dinner card for the eastern dining room, a menu of casual salads and sandwiches for the patio, a slate of bar snacks for the western “lounge” half of the resto, and an anything-goes tasting menu for those who elect to sit at the kitchen rail,” according to the open-concept kitchen in the 80-seat dining room.
Claudio Aprile Xango
Aprile collaborated with Nick Di Donato of the Liberty Entertainment Group to open Xango in the heart of Toronto’s King St. West neighborhood in September 2019.
