Chef profile · 1 win vs. Bobby Flay

Victor Albisu

steak and eggs
16 Taco Bamba locations across Mid-Atlantic and Nashville. Previous restaurants Del Campo and Poca Madre closed.
  • Taco Bamba · Multiple locations in VA, MD, DC, NC, Richmond, and Nashville
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Sixteen Taco Bamba locations across Virginia, Maryland, DC, North Carolina, and Nashville. Victor Albisu built that empire after Beat Bobby Flay, not before. The win was a runway.

The dish he chose in 2015 was steak and eggs, which sounds like a diner order but is — when a chef from a fine-dining background like Albisu's old Del Campo and Poca Madre cooks it — a Maillard exam. A hard skillet sear on the steak so the crust comes off the pan in one piece. Eggs basted in the rendered fat, whites set, yolks running. Salt at three intervals, not one.

Bobby cooks steak and he cooks eggs. He does not, apparently, cook them in the same pan.

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S3E11
Round 1
vs. Eddie Tangredi · advanced to face Bobby
W
S3E11
Round 2
beat Bobby with steak and eggs
W