Dino's formative years were spent living in various countries in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America due to the fact his father was first a journalist and then a senior manager with Reuters. Whilst at School and then during his years at University, he worked part time in Delicatessens, Cocktail Bars, Pubs and Restaurants both in the Kitchen and Front of House. After completing his undergraduate, postgraduate education in the UK and France, he worked first as a 
Management Consultant and then for three North American headquartered technology companies. For the last 12 years he has been involved with a number of New Media Technology and Software Services start up companies.
Today largely thanks to his work he has the opportunity to continue to eat and travel around the world. When at home in London he enjoys cooking and shopping for excellent ingredients. He tends to have a small number of favourite restaurants but continues to try new ones too. His passion for good food has led to me take on a couple of non executive roles with food related businesses where he believes
The Blog "˜s editorial approach is to recommend good restaurants, ingredients and producers with the odd recipe thrown in. In terms of restaurant reviews they are generally based on at least 3 meals in the respective establishments and only positive reviews tend to be posted. Dino is very active on Twitter where his views on ingredients, products and restaurants good and bad are made apparent.
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