Daniela Soto-Innes is a Mexican-born chef and the youngest chef named World's Best Female Chef by the World's 50 Best Restaurant. Born in

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, Mexico to two lawyers, she moved to

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at the age of 12. She was a competitive swimmer until she was 20. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Austin, Texas and then trained in both Europe and New York under chefs Danny Trace, Chris Shepherd and

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. In 2014, she helped to open Cosme in

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, serving there as the Chef de Cuisine. In 2017, in partnership with chef Enrique Olvera, she opened the restaurant Atla.

Awards

In 2016, she received the

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for Rising Star Chef. In 2019, she was named the World's Best Female Chef at the World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards. Travel Channel named her one of the ten up and coming chefs to look out for based on her work at Cosme in

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References

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