Chef Laszlo Bevardi’s love of food started when he was a child. His parents realized that he was always in the kitchen as he wanted to help out and learn to make dough and pasta and cut vegetables. So, it was natural that he went on to study the restaurant and hotel business in school.

Chef Laszlo Bevardi studied at culinary school in Eastern Europe and then went on to attend culinary school in Berlin, Germany.  He then went on to the Royal Caribbean cruise line and spent two years traveling as a Chef through the Caribbean, before settling in the US to open Bevardi's Salute Restaurant in 2010. The downtown Sarasota locale is famed for its home-made pasta, prepared daily, its whole fish dinners that are often imported and filleted table-side, and its freshly-picked produce from local farms.