Celebrity Chefs

Giuseppe Mancino, top Chef of the restaurant “Il Piccolo Principe“ has a long academic career that led him in 2005 to arrive in the restaurant of "Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte". Before long it obtained several international awards including, among the most important, listing in the "Gambero Rosso" and "Espresso" guides followed by the recognition of a Michelin star in 2008. His cuisine is a mix of creativity and classicism: reinventing typical dishes without altering the traditional flavors.

Fabio Pisani and Alessandro Negrini are the two young chefs who have taken over the kitchens of the renowned restaurant Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia. Alongside Stefania the daughter of Aimo e Nadia, they are the heirs of the unique style which combines the rich culinary history of Italy in contemporary dishes.

In the pursuit of wellbeing, and thanks to his clever use of spices and herbs, chef Alfons Schuhbeck determined the revolutionary approach to cuisine, developed over thirty years of worldwide research. His research involved a great medical support in order to give scientific evidence to the multiple effects that spices and their mixtures have on certain diseases.

His passion for cooking developed when at 13 he helped his mum Wanda in the kitchen of a ‘simple but good country trattoria’. In Italy he works alongside Sergio Mei at the Four Seasons in Milan. Expert in the art of respecting the raw materials, he reaches an almost obsessive perfection in his work.

The chef who revolutionised Johannesstube, the gourmet restaurant of the elegant 4-star Hotel Engel, he is inspired by ancient recipes and adds the boundless goodness of fresh ingredients he buys direct from the locals, giving a Michelin-starred voice to the terrain.