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Restaurateur, ‘Top Chef’ winner dies of virus

Chef Floyd Cardoz with kerala style banana leaf salmon from Paowalla at the 2016 New York Taste presented by Citi hosted by New York Magazine on November 1, 2016 in New York City. | Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for New York Magazine

NEW YORK — A “Top Chef Masters” winner and beloved restaurateur, Floyd Cardoz, has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 59.

A statement released by his company says Cardoz died Wednesday. He was admitted a week ago to Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, New Jersey, with a fever and subsequently tested positive for the virus.

The chef won season three of Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” in 2011. He was a partner in three restaurants in his native Mumbai. In addition, he and famed restaurateur Danny Meyer operated the popular Manhattan eatery Tabla in the early 2000s. It closed in 2010.

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