Chef Victor Albisu

An award-winning chef, restaurateur, and philanthropist, Victor Albisu is the founder of Taco Bamba, Electric Bull, Del Campo, and Poca Madre. His cult-favorite taqueria has sixteen locations across the Mid-Atlantic and Nashville, TN. In late 2025, Albisu will open Electric Bull, a South American steakhouse and butchershop in his hometown of Vienna, VA.

In 2015, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) honored Albisu as Chef of the Year, and in 2020 and 2016, he was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award as Best Chef Mid-Atlantic.

Outside the kitchen, Albisu is active in global culinary relief initiatives, including extensive work with CARE and World Central Kitchen, for which he was a founding board member and has traveled to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Peru, among other destinations. He is a member of the American Culinary Corp, a partnership between the Department of State and the James Beard Foundation. Albisu co-founded Smile on the World, a non-profit group of chefs and doctors who provide aid and medical care to underserved communities, and with whom he co-led relief trips to Peru in 2020 and Oaxaca, Mexico in 2024.

In 2015, Albisu competed on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay and bested the host and grill master with his signature dish, steak & eggs. Albisu has also appeared as a guest judge on Telemundo’s Top Chef Estrellas and the FOX TV series Hell’s Kitchen.

Guest Chef at Punta Del Este Food & Wine

Smile on the World

Albisu co-founded Smile on the World, a non-profit group of chefs and doctors who provide aid and medical care to underserved communities, and with whom he co-led relief trips to Peru in 2020 and Oaxaca, Mexico in 2024.

PERU 2020

OAXACA 2024