David Muñoz Rosillo, known professionally as Dabiz Muñoz, is a Spanish chef born on January 15, 1980, in Madrid. He is the chef-owner of DiverXO, the only three-Michelin-starred restaurant in the Spanish capital and one of the most acclaimed avant-garde kitchens in the world, built around a highly personal fusion of Spanish, Chinese and Japanese techniques. He is married to television presenter Cristina Pedroche, with whom he has two children, and the couple’s combined public profile has made him one of the best-known chefs in Spain. Wikipedia documents his birth details, career timeline and family life.

Muñoz has said his interest in cooking traces back to childhood meals at Viridiana, the Madrid restaurant run by chef Abraham García, and he trained at Madrid catering college before working the city’s kitchens at Viridiana, Catamarán and Chantarella. He then moved to London, where he spent several years working in restaurants specializing in Asian gastronomy, including Nobu, Hakkasan, Nahm and Locanda Locatelli, absorbing the techniques that would later define his own cooking. He returned to Madrid in 2007 to open his own restaurant rather than continue working for other chefs. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants traces this training period across Madrid and London.

DiverXO opened in Madrid in 2007 and quickly became known for a boundary-pushing tasting menu built around global ingredients and theatrical presentation. The restaurant earned its first Michelin star in 2010, a second in 2012, and a third in 2013, when Muñoz was 33, making him the second-youngest chef in the world at that time to reach three stars. DiverXO later relocated into Madrid’s NH Eurobuilding hotel in 2014 to accommodate demand, cementing its status as the city’s only three-star restaurant. Wikipedia lists the star-by-star progression and the 2014 relocation.

Muñoz was named Best Chef in the World by The Best Chef Awards for three consecutive years, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, a recognition his official profile with the organization confirms. DiverXO has been a fixture of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list and was ranked number four in the world in the 2025 edition. His pasta and dumpling restaurant RavioXO, opened in 2022, earned its own Michelin star within roughly six months of opening, an unusually fast turnaround even by fine-dining standards. The Best Chef Awards confirms his repeat wins.

Muñoz is frequently described in the press as Madrid’s “enfant terrible,” known as much for his eccentric mohawk hairstyle and outspoken personality as for his cooking, yet he has been notably self-deprecating about his individual fame. On accepting his second consecutive Best Chef in the World title, he said, “I do not feel like the best chef in the world, far from it. But I believe I have the best team in the world.” His profile has been amplified further by television work, including “Planeta Calleja” in 2014, the documentary series “El Xef” from 2016 to 2017, and the Netflix documentary “UniverXO Dabiz,” released in December 2024. Euronews covers this profile and quote in detail.

Muñoz’s highest-profile commercial partnership is with Burger King, for which he began designing limited-edition gourmet burgers in 2024, starting with chicken and Angus beef versions in Spain before the collaboration expanded to France and was set to reach Portugal and Italy. His restaurant brands also carry an ongoing retail partnership with the El Corte Inglés department store chain, which hosts both StreetXO and RavioXO inside its Madrid locations, giving the department store a fine-dining draw and Muñoz a retail footprint beyond his own standalone restaurants. El Español reports on both the Burger King and El Corte Inglés arrangements.

Beyond DiverXO, Muñoz built a multi-brand restaurant group that includes StreetXO, a more casual concept he opened in Madrid’s El Corte Inglés department store in 2012 and later expanded to London’s Mayfair in 2016, before that London site closed in 2020, and to Dubai in 2024; RavioXO, opened in Madrid’s El Corte Inglés Castellana store in 2022; and GoXO, a delivery-focused concept. The group has been restructured under a holding company and has grown fast financially, with DiverXO’s own filed accounts showing revenue climbing to roughly 16.2 million euros, and staffing growing from fewer than 100 employees in 2020 to around 150 by the end of 2022. El Español details the GoXO delivery expansion and group structure.

Muñoz and Pedroche own a home in La Finca, an exclusive gated urbanization on the outskirts of Madrid whose residents have reportedly included Paz Vega and, during his Real Madrid years, Cristiano Ronaldo. The property spans more than 700 square meters of construction on a plot exceeding 1,000 square meters, and includes a swimming pool, a hot tub, a barbecue area, a four-car garage, and four bedrooms, including a main suite with its own dressing room. The Objective published these details of the residence, though no purchase price has been made public.