Margarita Fores

Fores is known for fusing her Italian background with Filipino cooking and ingredients, and uses organic ingredients to help the farmers who produce these. She prepared the welcome dinner for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit for APEC leaders, together with Glenda Barretto, founder of Via Mare, in Manila in November 2015. She is Asia’s Best Female Chef for 2016, according to Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants’ Awards. Fores is also the first Filipino chef to win the award. She is a Certified Public Accountant graduate of Assumption College.