Michael Bonacini

Michael Bonacini (born March 1, 1960) is a Welsh-Canadian chef of Italian family origins who owns eleven restaurants (including Jump, Canoe, Luma, and Bannock) in Toronto, Ontario and is a co-founder of Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants. Bonacini trained in London and immigrated to Canada in 1985. He founded his first restaurant, Jump, with business partner Peter Oliver in 1993.

Bonacini is a judge on the television cooking competition MasterChef Canada and the host of Bonacini's Italy, a cooking program featuring cuisines from different regions of Italy cooked by Bonacini. He was also featured on Cook Like A Chef and was the resident chef for The Marilyn Denis Show.