I’m Álvaro. I grew up in Cuba, studied psychology there, and later found my way into marketing and communications in Australia — a combination that turned out to matter more than I expected. Understanding people and knowing how to tell their stories are closer to the same skill than most people think.

I’ve spent years inside the travel industry since, and somewhere along the way, food became the thing that made it all make sense. Leading food tours taught me that a dish is never really just a dish. That’s the idea House of Routes is built on: food is the fastest route into a place, and travel is just how you get to the table.