Geronimo Lopez talks about his life as a chef, innovator and culinary educator in San Antonio

Dec 21, 2024

When Geronimo Lopez hired on in September as executive chef at the Pearl’s Hotel Emma, the move represented a homecoming of sorts. While many San Antonio foodies came to know the chef through his Asian-Peruvian fusion restaurant Botika, which closed this summer, he spent decades cooking at hotels and resorts worldwide with stops in Mexico, Hawaii and Croatia, among other places.