Ricardo Larrivée

Ricardo Larrivée (born March 12, 1967) , sometimes mononymously credited as Ricardo, is a Canadian celebrity chef, television host, food writer and restaurateur. He previously presented the television shows Ricardo on Radio-Canada and Ricardo and Friends on Food Network Canada.

Early life and education In the 1980s, Larrivée enrolled in the Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ), a hospitality institute in Quebec, where he studied hotel management. He studied communications in Ottawa.

Career Larrivée moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, and accepted a job as a technician at Radio-Canada. He created both simple and elaborate dishes in his spare time and gained a reputation as a good cook. He was hired to present a food show on Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was experiencing lay-offs, however, and Larrivée was one of those let go. In 2006, Ricardo and Friends began to run on Food Network and lasted to three years. His cooking show employs about 125 people The same year, Ricardo opened a new headquarters in a Montreal suburb. He has operated a restaurant in the greater Montreal area since 2016, named Café Ricardo, which will later expand to three cafés.

On April 20, 2023, he announced that he was ending full-time hosting after 21 seasons and nearly 3,000 episodes. He continues to make guest appearances on the successor show La Cuisine d'Isabelle et Ricardo, whose primary daily host is Isabelle Deschamps Plante. In 2025 he became cohost with Jean-Philippe Wauthier and Rosalie Bonenfant of the talk and interview series Deux hommes en or et Rosalie, succeeding Patrick Lagacé.

Television shows

Books Ma cuisine weekend (La Presse August 5, 2004 , ) La chimie des desserts: 60 recettes de Ricardo PER Christina Blais (La Presse, 2007, , ) Ricardo - Parce qu'on a tous de la visite (La Presse, October 2008, , ) Weekend Cooking co-written with Christian LaCroix (Whitecap Books April 5, 2006 , ) Meals for every occasion (2009) La mijoteuse - de la lasagne à la crème brûlée (2012) Slow Cooker Favourites (2013) La Mijoteuse 2 (2015) Un Québécois dans votre cuisine, in France (2016) Mon premier livre de recettes (La Presse, 2015, ) Slower is Better, (HarperCollins, 2016) 2015

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Himself Algonquin College Alumni of Distinction Awards Alumni of the Year Vegetables First Television Chef Book World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards