Celeb chef Jordan Andino dishes on two new baking shows and his Manila restaurant 

Jordan Andino has sewage a batch cooking. 

The Filipino-Canadian chef, restaurateur and tv characteristic has been engaged successful nan workplace kitchen, serving arsenic a judge connected 2 caller shows — “Halloween Bakeshop” and “Holiday Bakeshop” — that will premiere this autumn connected Canada’s Flavour Network. At nan aforesaid time, he’s partnering pinch Filipino cook Francis Tolentino connected Union, a buzzy caller edifice opening successful Manila, Philippines, connected Nov. 8. 

Meanwhile, Andino remains nan culinary head of Continuum wellness club, an ultraluxe gym and wellness retreat successful NYC’s Greenwich Village. And he’s ever connected daddy duty, doting connected his adorable 2-year-old girl Malou pinch his woman of astir 4 years, Erin Andino. 

Of each those jobs, nan gourmand says fatherhood is nan astir important. “I get affectional reasoning astir it,” he tells Alexa. “To me, it intends making judge that nan personification that you are rearing is nan champion contributor to nan world — truthful personification who is thoughtful, caring, proactive, ambitious, driven, loving and considerate.”

From a young age, his parents — Toronto cook and restaurateur Richard Andino and exemplary and character Joanna Garel — instilled successful him an accomplishment mindset. And they were strict. “My dada taught maine nan meaning of difficult activity and nan meaning of a dollar,” says nan tastemaker. “The migrant mentality is: Head down and activity arsenic difficult arsenic you tin to do amended for nan adjacent generation.” 

The TV cook was calved successful Toronto, past moved to Manhattan Beach, Calif., pinch his mom erstwhile he was 9. He developed a emotion of surfing and skateboarding successful nan Golden State, and a passion for nutrient while making pastries, pizza and basking apps successful his father’s kitchens each summer. After attending Cornell University’s renowned Hotel School, he worked astatine apical restaurants including The French Laundry, Spago and Jean-Georges. In 2015, he opened Flip Sigi, a fast-casual Filipino taqueria successful Greenwich Village, later adding outposts successful Chicago and Jersey City, NJ. In 2023, he unveiled Carriage House, a New American edifice pinch world influences, connected NYC’s West 10th Street. Over nan past year, he shuttered those locations to attraction connected TV and different projects.

With his nutrient world expertise, gift of gab, down-to-earth demeanor and dazzling smile, Andino is simply a earthy connected camera. He’s hosted shows including Netflix’s “Cook astatine All Costs” and Cooking Channel’s “Late Nite Eats,” judged connected bid from “Chopped” to “Worst Cooks successful America” and appeared connected programs for illustration “Beat Bobby Flay,” “Rachael Ray” and Selena Gomez’s “Selena + Chef.” He besides runs a engaged broadside business catering events for brands specified arsenic Versace and Oscar de la Renta and has worked arsenic a individual cook for celebs, including Kyrie Irving and nan Kardashians. “They were really immoderate of nan champion clients I’ve ever cooked for because they’re normal,” he says of nan celebrated family. “They eat a lot! I emotion them.” 

His latest surface effort: baking battles. Eight contestants will compete for a $25,000 prize connected nan 2 seasonal programs, which are hosted by Canadian character Lauren Ash and co-judged pinch Kareem “Mr. Bake” Queeman. “The shows characteristic immoderate of nan champion bakers I’ve ever seen,” observes Andino. “They recovered group who person unthinkable attraction to detail.”

Andino says that he has evolved arsenic a judge, giving much captious feedback connected these programs than successful nan past. In different words, he strikes a equilibrium betwixt saccharine and salty.