Maarten van Loo

Maarten van Loo (3 March, 1962 in Koningstad) is a Brunanter-Libertan award winning-chef and head chef of the restaurant Aqua in his birthplace Koningstad which he established in February 1991.

Biography
Maarten van Loo was born in March 1962 in the city of Koningstad, Brunant. His mother was a Brunanter doctor and his father came from the Libertan town of Aeroville. When is mother died in 1969 Maarten, his father and his brother Pieter moved to the Libertan city Skeend in the same province as Aeroville. Maarten grew up in Skeend and studied at a cooking school. He started as second chef in the Libertan restaurant Goudzand in Civitas Libertas but came back to the Brunanter town Roodstad where he worked in some restaurants and pubs but he finally established his own restaurant, Aqua, in Koningstad. It was located in The Port and began serving food on 2 February 1991. Van Loo became famous with his sea dishes and was one of the important chefs in the Brunanter cuisine in the late 1990s. In 2004 Brunanter chef Marc Brunner joined the restaurant. His function was the international cuisine while van Loo focused on the Brunanter cuisine with many fish dishes like oysters and sardines but octopus, squid and normal fisch as well. On the ninth of October 2012 he was one of the main guests in the Brunanter show Bizz with presentator Karen Vogelaar and other main guest Brianna Tanzi.