Peter X. Kelly

[3] He was born and grew up in Yonkers and Croton-on-Hudson, New York, in an Irish Catholic family[3] where he was the tenth of twelve children.

[3] He studied business at Marist College in Poughkeepsie,[4] and started out in the food industry by washing dishes at a small German restaurant where everything was made in-house.

[3] In 1983, when he was 23 years old, he opened his first restaurant, Xaviars at Garrison, where he served as the head chef; he had no kitchen training or culinary school education.

[3] He was also a host in Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" program's profile of the Hudson Valley with Bill Murray.

After years of financial instability, it filed for bankruptcy and was seized by the New York State Tax Department in 2023.