Michael Bonacini is a British-Canadian chef of Italian descent who owns eleven restaurants (including Jump, Canoe, Luma, and Bannock) in Toronto, Ontario and a co-founder of Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants.
Bonacini trained in London and immigrated to Canada in 1985.
He founded his first restaurant, Jump, with business partner Peter Oliver in 1993.Bonacini is a judge on the cooking competition MasterChef Canada and the host of Bonacini's Italy, a cooking program featuring cuisines cooked by Bonacini from different regions of Italy He was also featured on Cook Like A Chef and is the Resident Chef for The Marilyn Denis Show.