Mario Mihelj is widely known as one of the mentors on the culinary show MasterChef. However, Mihelj is much more than a TV personality, and one of his more significant early career engagements was with the highly successful Mundoaka restaurant on Petrinjska Street in Zagreb. In addition, for the last eight years, he has managed the El Toro restaurant, which brought a taste of Latin America to Zagreb, and for the past two years, he has led the Maredo restaurant. Mihelj is now turning to his own projects.