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Peter X. Kelly is a restaurateur and renowned chef. He runs the Xaviar Restaurant Group that includes Xaviar's http://www.xaviars.com/xaviars/index.html and Freelance Cafe http://www.xaviars.com/freelance/index.html in Piermont, NY, Restaurant X and Bully Boy Bar http://www.xaviars.com/restx/index.html in Congers, NY and Xaviars X₂O http://www.xaviars.com/yonkers/index.html in Yonkers, NY. The name of the group is based on Peter Kelly's middle name, Xavier. He is self-taught as a chef.

He was born and grew up in Yonkers, New York, in a family where he was the tenth of twelve children, and Croton-on-Hudson

Croton-on-Hudson, New York

Croton-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 8,070 at the 2010 census. It is located in the town of Cortlandt, in New York City's northern suburbs...

. He studied business at Marist College

Marist College

Marist College is a private liberal arts college on the east bank of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York. The site was established in 1905 by Marist Brothers, and the college was chartered in 1929...

in Poughkeepsie, NY. He started out in the food business washing dishes at a little German Restaurant where everything was made in house. He worked in numerous restaurants in New York

New York

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including top restaurants such as Laurent in New York City and Plumbush in Cold Spring, NY before going to France

France

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to pursue his interest in cuisine. At 23, he opened Xaviars in Garrison, NY but closed it in 2002 at this location. Xaviars was moved to Piermont, NY along the Hudson River

Hudson River

The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...

. He has opened other restaurants as his business has grown.

His restaurants have received the highest praise; Xaviar's has received a 29 out of 30 in Zagat. The New York Times
The New York Times
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highest rating (Extraordinary), The Mobil Travel Guide Four Star Award, The Dirona Award, Restaurant News Dining Hall of Fame, Wine Spectator's
Wine Spectator
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"Best of Award of Excellence", New York State Restaurateur of The Year 1998. In 2003 Westchester Magazine
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awarded him the Best Chef award. In 2010 he was nominated and won a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY STATE, RI, VT), for his Xaviars at Piermont. Mr. Kelly is in the Nation's Restaurant News Fine dining Hall of Fame.

Mr. Kelly has appeared on TV, radio and print media, including an appearance on Iron Chef

Iron Chef

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1992, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended...

(Season 4: (2007) episode 10) and Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain is an American chef, author and television personality. He is well known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and is the host of Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.A...

's “No Reservations” program's profile of the Hudson Valley with Bill Murray

Bill Murray

William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack , Ghostbusters , and...

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVkVSCBpSs8&feature=related In the 90's he became a vintner

Vintner

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, his wine is known as "Silenus

Silenus

In Greek mythology, Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.-Evolution of the character:The original Silenus resembled a folklore man of the forest with the ears of a horse and sometimes also the tail and legs of a horse...

" (the Teacher of Bacchus

Bacchus

Bacchus is the Roman name for Dionysus, the god of wine and intoxication.Bacchus can also refer to:* Temple of Bacchus, a Roman temple at a large classical antiquity complex in Baalbek, Lebanon...

in Greek Mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...

). In 1999, became the founding chef and culinary director for Impromptu Gourmet http://impromptugourmetincentives.com/

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