Peter X. Kelly

Peter X. Kelly (born June 3, 1959) is a restaurateur and chef. He runs the Xaviars Restaurant Group, which owns and manages Xaviars and Freelance Cafe in Piermont, New York, Restaurant X and Bully Boy Bar in Congers and Xaviars X2O on the Hudson in Yonkers. The name of the group is based on Peter Kelly's middle name, Xavier. He is a self-taught chef, where he was the tenth of twelve children. He had worked nearly full-time since he was twelve, working to deliver newspapers, shovel snow, stock shelves, or mow lawns. In 2010 he won a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast for his Xaviars at Piermont. Kelly is in Nation's Restaurant News Fine dining Hall of Fame. where he beat Bobby Flay. In the 1990s he became a vintner, his wine is known as "Silenus" (after the tutor of Bacchus in Greek mythology). In 1999, became the founding chef and culinary director for Impromptu Gourmet.

In 2008, he opened X20 – Xaviar’s on the Hudson in Yonkers. After years of financial instability, it filed for bankruptcy and was seized by the New York State Tax Department in 2023. The restaurant would later reopen after filing for bankruptcy protection, his second since 2019. Kelly closed X2O - Xaviars on the Hudson on September 29, 2024.

In 2025, he became the chef for two "by PXK" restaurants: Basso by PXK in Chappaqua, New York and The Waveny Tavern by PXK in New Canaan, Connecticut