Robert Ruíz

Robert Ruiz is a Barcelona-born chef whose work centers on fermentation; his trajectory includes itinerant cooking work in Iceland, Sweden, France, and even elBulli Lab before he co-founded LOV Ferments in 2019 with Nicolas Lavallière. He is also the author of Fermentar and teaches fermentation courses attended by chefs from restaurants such as Mugaritz and Aponiente. A separate profile in Spanish sources identifies a chef Roberto Ruiz who spent 25 years at Frontón in Tolosa and later joined Hika txakoli winery in Villabona, but the evidence does not securely show that this is the same person as the Barcelona-born fermentation specialist.