Victor Albisu owns Del Campo, an upscale South American grill in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. Del Campo was named a Best New Restaurant of 2013 by Esquire magazine.
His other restaurant, Taco Bamba in Falls Church, VA, is a takeout taqueria that reflects his Cuban and Peruvian roots. The restaurant has received a great deal of local recognition and made the Washingtonian’s 2015 Best Cheap Restaurants List.
This experience in totality has been incredible for us. To see the food, where it comes from, where it grows and how it makes a trajectory to your plate has been intense.
Victor is a graduate of the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu School in Paris, where he received basic, intermediate and superior diplomas in cuisine, pastry and wine. In 2015, Victor competed on Food Network’s “Beat Bobby Flay” and bested the host and grill master with his signature dish, steak & eggs, and also appeared as a guest judge on the FOX TV Series, “Hell’s Kitchen.”
In 2015, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) named Victor Chef of the Year. Victor currently lives in Washington, DC.
