Enrique Limardo

The Path

Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland are where Enrique Limardo built his name through discipline, ambition, and a standard that held whether the room was large or small. As partner at Chicken + Whiskey in Washington, DC and executive chef at Alma Cocina Latina in Baltimore, Maryland, he moved across concepts and cities without diluting the work: the same demand for control, pace, and consistency carried through both roles. Those early kitchens established a base that was already broad in range and clear in intent. Since 2019, chef/owner of Seven Reasons and founder of Immigrant Food have marked a different kind of responsibility for Enrique Limardo: not only delivering the work, but setting its direction. The shift matters in trade terms. It moves the center of gravity from service and execution toward authorship, from working inside an existing structure to defining one. In Washington, that has produced a profile rooted in the city and shaped by scale, with the reach of someone used to building across formats.

The Work Today

The current shape of the work is defined less by a sequence of job titles than by the change from operating within someone else’s framework to owning the framework itself. For Enrique Limardo, that distinction gives the present tense its weight. Seven Reasons and Immigrant Food are not just outputs; they are the structure through which his priorities are now read. Hospitality, in this register, extends beyond the plate. Enrique Limardo’s career points to the mechanics behind a durable project: the ability to keep a concept legible, to sustain it, and to make it recognizable through point of view rather than scale alone. The result is work that reads as entrepreneurial without losing its kitchen discipline.

In Their Words The line reads as a statement about exposure and repetition as much as movement. In trade terms, it suggests a perspective built by contact with different places over time, and a working sense of range that can inform how Enrique Limardo approaches the room, the menu, and the business around them.

Acclaim

Enrique Limardo has received MICHELIN Guide recognition. Enrique's honors include Michelin star recognition for Imperfecto. That recognition places Imperfecto within a career already associated with ambition and exacting standards, and confirms the level at which Enrique Limardo’s work has been received.