Tobias Dorzon Instagram – Tobias Dorzon is cookin’ these chefs!
The culinary ace is living proof that magic is made in the kitchen. Growing up in Maryland, he cut his teeth early in the space by assisting his dad in the operations of being a master chef. Equipped with turbo speed, Chef Tobias ultimately chose to earn his stripes on the football field, eventually earning a scholarship to Jackson State University. But even then, he never strayed too far away from his ingrained love for cuisine.
After a run of playing football professionally in both the National Football League and Canadian Football League, Tobias decided to hang up his cleats for good in the latter half of his 20s to become a full-time chef. He went to the Art Institute of Washington and then the Italian Culinary Institute to study fine dining. With extensive knowledge of the proper diet athletes need to feel and perform well, he built up his celebrity clientele upon graduating. He cooked for high-level figures like Santana Moss, Rajon Rondo, Lil Baby, Chris Brown, and James Harden—who hired Tobias as his personal chef in the 2020 NBA bubble and to eventually become the executive chef of Harden’s restaurant Thirteen in Houston. (The dish that won the former NBA MVP over? “Curry shrimp,” Dorzon says.)
Now, Tobias, owner of fine dining establishment Huncho House, is the star of his own ESPN show, Timeout with Tobias, a first of its kind cooking talk show on the sports network that in its debut season featured guests like Tanzel Smart of the New York Jets, former WNBA lottery pick Ty Young, and the New York Giants’ Kayvon Thibodeaux.
Tobias caught up with LEVEL to discuss his career journey thus far and the important pillars and moments that propped him up to where he is now.
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