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DUENDE is a collaboration between Chef Paul Canales and restaurateur/impresario Rocco Somazzi, born from a common passion for creative soulful food, artisan wines, beers & spirits and eclectic improvised music and art. Their cohorts in this venture are tech whiz and food enthusiast Tony Siress and strategic visionary and style maven Alex Vorbeck.

Alexandra Vorbeck

Alexandra Vorbeck has spent her career succeeding in a broad range of businesses. She started her career helping large companies invest and expand and then moved on to helping private parties manage and build their wealth. Working very hard her whole life, alex has created several growing companies. But her accomplishments go further than finances, Alex has a diverse collection of successes, from a thriving all natural avocado farm, to a successful boutique wealth management firm, and even an independent film and television company. Although she is a great business entrepreneur she is an even better mom and her greatest accomplishments are her two children, Devon and Aaron.

Tony Siress

Tony is the Principal of Siress AG Venture Capital & Consulting, a firm that invests in and consults to start-up organizations. He is an accomplished business entrepreneur with a passion for Technology, Food and wine. Tony provided initial funding for AsiaSF, an extremely successful destination restaurant, and in the late 90′s transformed the historic Oasis nightclub into V/SF, a large-event venue host to a variety of events, including big budget Hollywood wrap parties. Most recently He is a lead investor in the newly opened Tank18Wine bar in SF’s SOMA District.

Rocco Somazzi

Rocco is both an accomplished entrepreneur and a seasoned restaurant operator, adept at creating a dining and entertainment experience that embodies the creative energy of the local arts community. Along with a proven ability to create an exciting, inviting ambiance enhanced by first rate local & national musical talent, Rocco will bring his passion and knowledge of fine wines to DUENDE by offering a stand out selection of lesser known terroir driven Spanish wines and rarely featured artisan sherries.

Paul Canales

“Paul Canales has found and taken unfailing command of what everyone who cooks struggles to discover: the straight road to pure, sincere, deeply satisfying flavor.” Marcella Hazan, International Cuisine Expert and Writer

Paul is a locally and nationally acclaimed Oakland-based Chef who is passionate about creating culinary improvisations from local sources and Mediterranean-based cultural touch points. With Duende, he is excited to use his own cultural background, Spanish and Basque cuisines, and their many influences as jumping off points.