Antonio Bachour

Antonio Bachour (1975 in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico) is an American pastry chef. In 2011, he was named one of the ten best pastry chefs in America, and he subsequently won the 2012 Zest Award for Baking & Pastry Innovator after having been nominated for the 2011 award. Zagat has described him as a "confection master".
He has also served as a judge in the 2013 US Pastry Competition and the Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition, and as a guest chef at the 2013 Friends of James Beard dinner, held by the James Beard Foundation.
Bachour is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University, and has studied at the Valrhona cooking school
In 2013, Bachour published his first cookbook.