Tabacón Thermal Resort & Spa is happy to welcome Saul Umaña as the brand new Culinary Director. Returning to his native Costa Rica with
5 years of worldwide culinary expertise, Umaña is tasked with elevating the gastronomy providing, positioning the resort as a high culinary vacation spot firmly rooted in Costa Rican flavors and traditions.
In his function as Culinary Director, Umaña will execute what he’s greatest recognized for: marrying delectable flavors with beautiful presentation and distinctive service to create a singular haute delicacies expertise. Umaña will develop new meals and beverage tasks together with new menus and sustainable initiatives to focus on the wealthy culinary choices of Costa Rica. Utilizing regionally sourced and conventional elements with high worldwide strategies, Umaña and his group will develop large taste with a small footprint.
A local Costa Rican with over a decade of culinary and resort expertise, Umaña beforehand held positions as head chef for Marriot St. Kitts and Santarena Lodge in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. In the direction of the start of his profession, Umaña labored at Kokotxa, a Michelin restaurant within the Basque Nation that first piqued his curiosity in modern culinary strategies. Most not too long ago, Umaña held the place of Culinary Director for Islas Secas Reserve & Resort in Panama the place he led all culinary operations together with workers coaching, menu growth, and kitchen administration for the luxurious resort. He efficiently spent two years enhancing the meals and beverage idea highlighting sustainability and seasonality.
“I’m excited to implement a brand new imaginative and prescient as Culinary Director and be a part of the proficient group at Tabacón,” Umaña says. “That imaginative and prescient is to assist to place Costa Rica as a gastronomic vacation spot for worldwide guests. Right here we’re blessed with a residing, edible, inexperienced nation from coast to coast that offers us recent and wholesome produce year-round. By mixing these basic elements with fashionable strategies, we will have a good time our previous and nonetheless shock even probably the most demanding palates. I’m proud to hitch a group that believes in supporting the local people and defending the setting whereas creating distinctive eating experiences for friends of Costa Rica’s best sizzling springs resort. I’m elated to return house to Costa Rica with worldwide expertise and recent concepts to share our historical past and flavorful heritage with the world. ”
Andrey Gomez, Basic Supervisor says: “We’re happy to welcome Saul as Culinary Director to the Tabacón household. His spectacular expertise will assist strengthen Tabacón’s place as a high culinary vacation spot. I sit up for working carefully with Saul to develop artistic methods to raise the Tabacón expertise for our friends.”