Ray Garcia is Esquire magazine’s chef of the year for 2015 and his downtown flagship Broken Spanish and around-the-corner little brother BS Taqueria were named two of the year’s best new restaurants.

Garcia got to culinary school by way of UCLA, a Department of Justice internship, and the notion of a law degree abandoned after looking around D. C. and noticing everyone was miserable. At night, after class at a culinary school that doesn't exist anymore, he would make recipes from Cooking for Dummies for his friends.

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