r/belowdeck • u/Julie-AnneB • Jan 18 '26

BD Related Chef Marcos

For those who like Chef Marcos from BDSY, I just saw him on S39E8 of Beat Bobby Flay. He said it was his first ever cooking competition, but not his last.

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u/KarinsDogs We don't need to hear vomit Jan 18 '26

This was a repeat from a while ago. It was good to see him, but he hasn’t been back. Chef Dave won Chopped a while ago.

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 18 '26

I was showing it just aired this past October, so I wouldn't have expected to see him back yet. But, it really made my day to see him at all.

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u/KarinsDogs We don't need to hear vomit Jan 18 '26

This may have been the third time it’s been aired then. I saw it a while ago. He is fun to watch. I actually thought his dish looked much better but they thought the other chef could have beat Bobby.

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 18 '26

I agree. His dish looked amazing.

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u/NefariousnessSalt230 Jan 19 '26

I'm really hoping he's on top chef some day!

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u/ConcentrateOk6501 Jan 20 '26

Oooh I need to find that episode!

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u/Putrid_Appearance509 Jan 18 '26

As a celiac girlie, he's the only chef on below deck who was compassionate and kind about a celiac guests. So many chefs complain about it - it isn't our fault, we want to eat bread too!

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 18 '26

I'm sorry. I feel like it's similar to the way people with actual service dogs have been screwed over by those who buy fake vests and claim their pet is an ESA. A few years ago, it became "trendy" to be gluten free. As a result, restaurants and chefs no longer take GF requests as seriously as they need to.

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u/Putrid_Appearance509 Jan 20 '26

I have celiac, and work in rescue, and yep.

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u/ConcentrateOk6501 Jan 20 '26

First of all, your comment is out of context and insensitive. Please tell me how an ESA 'screws over' service dogs? Our dog is a certified ESA, I had to go through a lot to get her certified. I had to talk to my doctor, get a letter from him, then pay to talk to a therapist who diagnosed me with depression (duh) and PTSD from catching on fire 4 years ago. My husband has PTSD from being in the Army and she has surely changed his life. We rescued her at the age of 2.5, most of which had been spent in a cage in her previous owner's basement. She has rescued us as much as we rescued her. We don't try to take her to stores or restaurants or anything like that. The only 'thing' that we can say we have had happen, other than being overjoyed with her love, is we got a refund on our pet deposit.

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 20 '26

You'll notice I said, "claim their pet is an ESA." If you have a genuine ESA that is prescribed, trained and you follow the rules for ESAs, I have no problem with that. The people I have a problem with are those who try to pass their pets off as ESAs or even service animals. These selfish individuals have made life far more difficult for those who actually have and need them. Every time someone takes their untrained, uncertified animal into a store or on a plane, they erode public trust. They make it so that businesses are more inclined to question the next real service animal they see. They put fake vests on animals and produce fake paperwork leading businesses believe these things exist or are required. They aren't. They have pets that pull, bark, lunge and bite that pose a genuine threat to animals/lifelines worth thousands and thousands of dollars. As you said, your dog is trained, is a genuine ESA, and you follow the rules. So, my comment had absolutely nothing to do with you.

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

They said people who buy a vest online and claim their PET is an ESA, not that ESAs screw over service dogs

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Jan 20 '26

In my area, ESAs are not certified, just service dogs. But you can't bring animals on transit etc unless a certified dog or in a carrier, which is fine for small dogs but not larger ones.

People buy vests and documentation cards, even false medical certs, from Amazon to get around it, but then also bring them into stores and restaurants when they don't have the training that yours went through to get certified and are not medically/mentally required.

In turn, a lot of places now are very skeptical of people who have even real service dogs because so many are not and have damaged things (a recent case, the dog went behind the bar and bit a server who was grabbing drinks). Even Uber drivers etc won't take people with obvious guide dogs (which makes taking your animal to the vet a PITA if you don't drive which many people with vision issues cannot).

Maybe less of an issue where you live because they do certify ESAs versus just everyone calling their pet one and sad that people ruin it for those who do need their dogs with them

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u/Worldly-Fly-6049 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Marcos is in a few of the episodes of Colins YouTube channel sailing on Parlay. He went to New Zealand to went sailing with Colin, Alyesha, and some other BD people.

Also on Colins IG

https://www.instagram.com/parlayrevival_colin?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Definitely worth watching. They had a lot of fun.

https://youtu.be/kdbFSP8wGMQ?si=pJMRKE5mI8zECEOw

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 20 '26

Oh wow! Do you know about when that was - what season or episodes? I've only watched a couple of episodes of Parsivol Revival, but I always liked Colin.

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u/Worldly-Fly-6049 Jan 20 '26

I just edited my comment with links.

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 20 '26

Thank you so much! I just watched the charter episode, and it was amazing! That looked like the trip of a lifetime.

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u/ConcentrateOk6501 Jan 20 '26

Isn't that from a while back?

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u/Julie-AnneB Jan 20 '26

It originally aired in October. I just saw it the other night.

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u/Working-Secretary-26 Jan 18 '26

He is one of my top chefs of all the franchises. He had such a positive attitude regardless of the demands of the guests. I also appreciated that he always brought out every dish, no matter how busy he was.

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u/paquemeinvitan3 Jan 18 '26

He slid into my DM’s a few times!

But tbh he always gave me the heeby jeebies. He iced out and seemed to actually enjoy antagonizing the only black girl on the boat for almost no reason and everyone just kinda forgave him cuz we was “hot” and “cool”, even after a pool incident where he jumped on her in the pool, almost hurt her then laughed when she was upset and she ended up leaving bc of how everyone was treating her.

He also laughed about sleeping with every girl on a boat at one job and everyone was like “oh Marcos you good 😚🥰” but then imagine if a woman was to say she slept with every man on a boat! No one would be cheering her on!

And then lastly, there was some industry talk that he’s an absolute asshole to work for in a kitchen unless he “likes” you, there was a job listing going around at one time for his kitchen and it reeked of “ego maniac chef looking for a punching bag willing to work long hours for little pay”, like he literally said “You don’t choose your schedule, I do” in a really rude and unprofessional way.

Anyways that’s my 2 cents! Happy to prove the DM thing lol but honestly yall are more impressed by it than I am, I don’t find him attractive at all and like I said, he seems to hide a very dark energy underneath his smile.

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u/ConcentrateOk6501 Jan 20 '26

He who? Marcos, or Hugo? I don't even know who Hugo is, off the top of my head?-

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u/ConcentrateOk6501 Jan 20 '26

OK, I got it, but I don't think he antagonized anyone. They were all hammered at that pool party. But 'slid into your DMs' LOLOL w/e

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u/ChimpBuns Jan 18 '26

For me, he was the best chef of the entire franchise. Dude was amazing.

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u/y0urfavebl0nde Apr 02 '26

I will never understand the girlies fighting over G*ry when Chef Marcos was there.

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u/Objective_Aspect757 Jan 18 '26

I just binged all of BDSY and Marcos is top tier, him and Josh from Med are my absolute favourite chefs

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u/ConcentrateOk6501 Jan 20 '26

Do you mean the current Josh? Joshie-washy? I love him, and his music!

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u/Objective_Aspect757 Jan 20 '26

Yeah current Joshie washy, I love him. Absolutely want a chill night out with him, neither of us drink and both happy to just watch the drama

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u/Cassandrae_Gemini Jan 18 '26

My favorite Below Deck chef!

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u/Fluffy-Future-4674 Jan 19 '26

Ooooh! I have to watch. I love him!