About the chef

Chef Fernanda Reyes

Chef Fernanda Reyes comes to Kansas City to revolutionize the American palette and give Mexicans far from home a fresh remembrance of the classic homemade flavor of Comida Casera.

Long before shaping Kansas City's contemporary Mexican cuisine, Chef Fernanda graduated in gastronomic studies from the Instituto Culinario de México, Campus Monterrey, and later achieved a Master’s in Business Administration and Nutrition of Foods and Beverages. At only 10 years old, Fernanda started learning every recipe from her mother's family restaurant in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango Mexico, and started forming her culinary style.

Fernanda has more than 15years experience transporting the flavors of Mexico around the world. During her culinary studies, Fernanda participated in international culinary competitions where she received world-renowned recognition for her gastronomic performance with a Bronze Medal during the 2008 IKA Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany, and a Silver Metal during the Culinary World Cup at Expogast Luxembourg 2010. In 2015 Chef Fernanda moved to Dublin, Ireland where she continued her studies and worked at various local restaurants of diverse cuisines and learned the essence of French, Italian, and Spanish dishes.

Chef Fernanda helped bring the vision of modern Mexican cuisine to Kansas City become a reality. Now she is changing the Kansas City taco game with TACO NACO KC by bringing love, flavor, and joy to Kansas City and Overland Park and presenting a little bit of Mexico in just a bite.