Victor Albisu
Victor Albisu is the chef/founder of Taco Bamba, an award-winning taqueria with several locations in Northern Virginia and Maryland. With more than two decades of experience in fine dining and upscale French, American, and Latin American restaurants, Albisu combines his culinary education with his Latin American heritage to bring a unique style of cuisine to his widely popular taqueria. In 2020 and 2016, Albisu was nominated as Best Chef Mid-Atlantic by the James Beard Foundation. In 2015, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington honored Albisu as Chef of the Year.
Outside the kitchen, Albisu is active in global culinary relief initiatives, including extensive work with CARE and World Central Kitchen, for whom he was a founding board member and has travelled to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Peru, among other destinations. In early 2020, Albisu co-led a relief trip to Peru with a group of chefs and dentists bringing aid and medical care to underserved communities with a newly formed non-profit, Smile on the World.
Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, Albisu is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu School in Paris, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and International Relations from George Mason University. He resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and two sons.
