Alejandro Alvarez
Alejandro Alvarez has developed very successful and trendy enterprises; in 2008, his first startup Ki Bar Events, followed by The Event Society in 2015. His entrepreneurial talents have led him to collaborate with companies such as Tom Brady’s TB12 Foundation, The Bruins Foundation, The Light Foundation, The Dana Farber Institute, Gilt City Group, RueLaLa, BMW, Tesla, Ferrari, Michael Kors, Ted Baker, Bvlgari, Madewell, Campari America, Diageo, and Bacardi, among others, acting as brand liaison to Boston society and nightlife. Before launching The Event Society, Alejandro was a fixture and main attraction in Boston’s hot spots Mistral, Mooo, Stella, The Godfrey Hotel, Bastille Kitchen, and recently at Zuma, serving up creative cocktails and acting as an informal host to guests from near and far who knows his zest for life, passion for cocktails and hospitality and contagious personality made for a guaranteed good time. Alejandro received several awards and accolades, including GQ Magazine’s Most Inspired Bartenders, Stuff Magazine’s Boston’s Sexiest 2011 award, and 42 Below’s World Cup Champion. He was also the founder of W Hotel Boston’s Libation Elimination competition and has acted as an exclusive mixology consulter for Bacardi, a class instructor for The Patron Spirits Company Exotic Libations. Moreover, he was featured in various local publications like the Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Boston Common, Bravo, and Dirty Water. He was highly recognized for his talents as a bartender, mixologist, and award-winning personality.
Brett Williams
Brett discovered Lago d’Orta while working and travelling throughout the famed food regions of Italy – Tuscany, Piedmont, Liguria, the Veneto — a decade ago.
He had already fallen in love with food preparation, having helped his grandfather prepare family meals since childhood. Not coincidentally, Grandpa owned and operated Boston’s most well-known function house, Lombardo’s.
Later, interning in trattorias in towns whose names none of us can pronounce, Brett fell in love with the simplicity and clean flavors of true northern Italian cuisine, which he had begun to appreciate years earlier as apprentice to Jimmy Burke, a restauranteur whose name was synonymous with upscale Italian food in Boston in the 1970s-80s.
Finally, Brett fell in love with Cara, his Italian travel companion (and a seasoned restaurant pro). In fact, he proposed to Cara in a tiny town near Lake Orta just before the two returned to the Boston area.
The newly engaged chef refined his kitchen and management skills at Stella restaurant in the South End from 2010 to 2012, before the opportunity to purchase Orta from Jimmy Burke arose. Just before its Grand Re-Opening in the summer of 2012, Cara gave birth to Luca, who joins brother Jude is this fun-loving foodie family.