Arturo Rivera (Mexico City, 57 years old), recognized by Michelin in May 2024 as a chef Honoris Causa After 20 years preparing tacos in the León Caliph, he does not know why Mario Hernández, who was his patron during those two decades, has said that it is a Rockstar To whom the fame was raised to the head and left the business. “I left there in very good terms. I feel very grateful to them,” he says in a taquería in the Centro neighborhood, near the Hidalgo Metro station, where he makes a scale to attend the interview before leaving for his home in Ecatepec, State of Mexico. “Look at me, I’m not Rockstar. That Rockstar would he travel by subway? ”, Switch while making a gesture with your hands, from top to bottom.
You wears a khaki cap of the duck Lucas, a gray sweater with red and blue rhombuses, light -colored pants. He says he lives threatened by a talents representative, who offered him a contract to create his brand after the award. “I was very vulnerable,” he says. His father died on Friday, May 31, 2024, 16 days after receiving the Philippine. “On Saturday we created it. On Sunday they admit me for a diabetes issue. They are discharged on Wednesday and one of my children tells me that someone was looking for me in the Caliph of León those days.” Rivera features that the representative’s name is well registered. Pablo Uribe Flores Chapa. “The contract is 80% profits for him, 20% for me. It was for him that I left the taquería because yes, the sun, the moon and the stars lowered me.”
Chef Michelin is of humble origin. He says that at age seven he left primary school to start working and did everything. Sell chewing gum and cigarettes, try luck in the tianguis. When he completed the age of majority, he got more formal jobs and the last one, before entering the taquería, was a taxi driver. “My wife’s sister, Gloria Ochoa Hernández, who is now the barbecue, was the one who put me,” says Rivera. She is not very sure, but she thinks she has been working in the León Caliph for about 25 years.
On March 10, 2023 his mother dies. He says that his dad, who had been fighting for a larynx cancer for 16 years, had a health decline following the loss of his wife. A year later, during the month of April, a group of six people began to frequent the taquería in San Cosme. They asked him questions he considered irrelevant. As the weeks went by, the visits were more constant and the most personal questions, until on May 8, one of these six people invited him to an exclusive event for chefs, May 14.
“My first reaction was to tell him that I was not a chef, I was barbecue. And he replied that from that moment, the Michelin guide recognized me as a chef,” he says with a smile in his eyes. A day before the event, his father is admitted to the General Hospital of Mexico. “I called Michelin’s to tell them that he was not going to be able to go and they were offended.” However, the next day, an immense row of clients and journalists waited for their arrival. “As I did not go to the event, they came to my workstation to give me the red book with the star and the Philippine,” says Ear to Ear.
At the end of May is that his father dies, Rivera is hospitalized and when he leaves he decides to sign an exclusivity contract with the talent representative Pablo Uribe Flores Chapa. He acknowledges that he signed it without paying much attention to the matter. “All this was new to me.” Leave the León Caliph in September to start new projects and collaborations with brands. He begins to work in his new home, Pole Inn, from Monday to Saturday, a taquería in front of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), south of Mexico City. In November, he says, “he falls on the 20th.” However, this person did not accept what I sent him. He insulted me, he told me that it was nobody, that nothing was worth. And he threatened that if I used my image to do business on my own, I was going to imprison me. I don’t live with fear, but a little fearful, ”concludes Rivera. He hopes someone,“ another altruistic person like the graduate who drafted the recession contract ”, helps him out of the situation he is in.
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