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    Chef

    Alvaro Garrido

    Chef and Founder, Mina

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    Chef
    Based in
    Bilbao, Spain
    Portrait of Alvaro Garrido

    i. Biography

    Álvaro Garrido is the chef and founder behind Mina in Bilbao, Spain, a restaurant he opened in 2006 in Bilbao La Vieja/Muelle Marzana and later associated with the city’s Ercilla area. Michelin describes Mina as a one-star restaurant with Garrido at the helm, and a 2019 profile notes that he worked in kitchens in France, England, and China before returning to Spain to open the restaurant.