I didn’t come to food chasing trends.
I came to it through work.

Through kitchens where heat teaches you patience.
Through long cooks that don’t care about your schedule.
Through repetition — doing the same thing until your hands learn what your head can’t.

Cazador is a smokehouse by origin and a catering house by design.
Some dishes meet the smoke.
All dishes meet the standard.

Whether we’re working a pit, building a menu for an event, or setting a table for a private dinner, the approach stays the same: real heat, disciplined technique, attention to detail, and respect for the process.

This is food built, not staged.

What we serve is meant to linger.
Not just on the palate.
In memory.

Cazador is the expression of a simple belief:
that time matters,
that hands matter,
that fire teaches,
and that smoke remembers.

Slow fire. Earned smoke.

— Carlos Perez Hunter
Founder, Cazador Smokehouse & Catering