{"id":17942,"date":"2012-03-06T22:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=17942"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:43:12","slug":"eaters-hottest-chef-in-america-2012-is-kurt-ramborger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/eaters-hottest-chef-in-america-2012-is-kurt-ramborger\/","title":{"rendered":"Eater’s Hottest Chef in America 2012 Is Kurt Ramborger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kurt Ramborger, Eater’s Hottest Chef in America [Photo: Paul Rutowski]<\/em><\/p>\n

Eater’s Hottest Chef in America 2012 Is Kurt Ramborger<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 6, 2012<\/p>\n

By Raphael Brion<\/p>\n

Ladies and gents, we have a winner: After tabulating all the votes in
\nour hottest chef competition in a head-to-head tournament \u2014 and
\neliminating all the fraudulent votes \u2014 we can officially crown Eater’s
\nSecond Annual Hottest Chef in America. The winner: chef Kurt Ramborger
\nof ViUDA Bistro in Buda, TX (just outside of Austin).<\/p>\n

Ramborger goes by the nickname “The Irish Chef \u2014 he is a fiery redhead,
\nindeed \u2014 and he ran a very impressive social media campaign to win the
\ntitle. He posted videos to YouTube, including this one in which he
\nsigns (he’s deaf, haven’t you heard?) the story of his twenty-year
\ncareer in restaurants, starting as a dishwasher, moving around from
\nSeattle to California and elsewhere. The deaf community totally rallied
\nbehind him. Ramborger is still single, but he tells Eater, “I am datin’
\nwith my kitchen now, sorry mi’ladies….”<\/p>\n

Reached for comment about his win, Ramborger emailed Eater: “Whooo…
\nReally felt a longest hours I have been await fer the result!!! Just
\nglad ’tis all over with and give Austin a Proud with best Chefs in the
\ncountry amongst Chef Paul Qui’s Top Chef winner, 3 F&W Best new Chef
\nnominated, and best Food Truck in America! Austin are in the Food
\nnational Map now! Don’t mess with TEXAS!!!””<\/p>\n

And Paul Rutowski, a partner of ViUDA Bistro, emailed: “Rene Alcala and
\nI (Paul Rutowski) as ViUDA Bistro Partners, Rene and I both are elated
\nabout Kurt’s success with the Eater.com contest! We may be a small
\nbistro in Buda but this propels us onto the national scene! The good
\nnews is that we will have enough room for everyone provided that they
\nmake reservations!”<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/eater.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/06\/eaters-hottest-chef-in-america-is-kurt-ramborger.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kurt Ramborger, Eater’s Hottest Chef in America [Photo: Paul Rutowski] Eater’s Hottest Chef in America 2012 Is Kurt Ramborger March 6, 2012 By Raphael Brion Ladies and gents, we have a winner: After tabulating all the votes in our hottest…<\/p>\n

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