Founder of Eating House in Miami, Giorgio Rapicavoli opened the pop-up restuarant Eating House in February 2012. He’s also Miami’s first winner of Food Networks Chopped and has made repeated appearances on Slow Food’s Terra Madre in Italy, where he’s worked alongside Alice Waters and Joshua Viertel. Rapicavoli enrolled in the Culinary Arts program at Johnson and Wales University. Never on to be called conventional, Rapicavoli dropped the program just one semester short of graduation to dive full-force itno the restaurant industry. He took turn working in some of the city’s hottest restaurants under renowned chefs (Robin Haas, Adam Votaw) and then honed craft during his three-year executive chef stint at 660 at The Angler’s on Miami Beach. An avid artist both in and out of the kitchen, Rapicavoli demonstrates his passion for street art and love of music through his work with stencils and spray paints, as well as his occasional dabble into the world of sampling and mixing various beats and songs. On any given evening at Eating House, the crowd may be privy to the sounds of one of Rapicavoli’s very own deejay mixes.