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At 31, with a crown of long black curls he sometimes pulls into a ponytail, Vizcarra is very much his own man, an entrepreneur who is succeeding in pulling off the creative vision he has set for himself. "I think people are surprised sometimes when they meet me, they imagine maybe some older dude and then they see some hippie kid," Vizcarra said with a laugh. Starting from scratch Vizcarra grew up watching the action around the hot stove of his family's home. He originally considered going into the seminary to become a priest, but his love of food won out.

It was a who's who of the culinary community, and a first for St. Johns County. Billed as a "Chefs Round Table," a gathering of what organizer Tyrone Bennett called the "heavyweights" of the St. Augustine dining scene got together to talk shop, break bread and share a few laughs. The event took place Monday afternoon (an off-night for many in the restaurant industry) at Amici Italian Restaurant, where owners Freddy and Jenn Underhill offered up the banquet hall for the occasion.  The grouping represented decades of experience from some of the biggest local names — from the executive ...