Meet The 6 Chefs With Michelin Star Status At WGS
by Cristabel Chia
@ 24 Mar 2016
Get to know six chefs with Michelin star status gracing this year's World Gourmet Summit. Find out what sparked their passion, their style of cuisine and their milestones.
1) Arnaud Bignon
Chef Arnaud Bignon’s culinary passion was inspired by his grandfather’s garden in France, where he discovered a respect for high quality ingredients that has become quintessential in his cooking. His philosophy combines traditional French cooking with contemporary techniques. It is based around finding perfect harmony and balance in all his dishes, and dictated by his knowledge of quality produce. He plays with fresh and original flavour combinations and presents his dishes clean and contemporary.
2) Javier Aranda
Being only 28 years old, Chef Javier Aranda is positioned as one of the leaders of the Spanish dining arena, achieving his first Michelin Star at 27 with his first project, “La Cabra”. Some of the restaurants Javier has worked at includes Ars Vivendi, El Bohío, where we was working alongside with great masters such as Santi Santamaría, Urrechu, Piñera and two-Michelin-star restaurant San Celoni. Chef Javier Aranda developed his career through his time in many great restaurants such as “El Bohio alongside highly celebrated chefs such as Santi Santamaría. He plays his first post as Chef at age 24 in “Pinera” restaurant, which in 2012 was award the title the Cook revelation in Madrid Fusion.
3) Julien Lemarié
Chef Julien Lemarie has paved his way to culinary success with hard work, passion and commitment. He has worked at many Michelin-starred restaurants and cut his teeth under many famous chefs. In 1994, Chef Lemarie started working as an apprentice chef at la Table Ronde, years later as chef de partie at three-Michelin-star Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, and in 2010, he became chef de cuisine at The Raffles Grill in Singapore. He now resides in France where he leads the kitchen of one-Michelin-star La Coquerie.
4) Nacho Manzano
Chef Nacho Manzano was born in Asturias, a region in north of Spain. At the age of 22, he took on the responsibility of managing his own restaurant, Casa Marcial, which is his parents' former bar and was awarded the first Michelin- star in 1999. Subsequently, he was considered by the prestigious magazine, Iberia, in 2001, to be one of the ten greats of Spanish cuisine which granted him “two suns” in the Repsol Guide. In 2009, Chef Mazano was awarded his second prestigious Michelin-star for Casa Marcial and the “Caldereta de Don Calixto” (Stew) award to the revitalisation of Asturian cuisine.
5) Takagi Kazuo
Takagi Kazuo is owner-chef of ‘Kyoto cuisine TAKAGI’ in Ashiya, a city between Osaka and Kobe. The restaurant has had two-Michelin-star since 2010, and Chef Kazuo is a recognised master of the super refined Kyoto style of Japanese cuisine known as “Kyo-ryori”. Kyo-ryori cuisine uses unique and traditional methods to unfold and celebrate cultural tales that capture the changing seasons of Kyoto. He creates all of his dishes, using only the freshest ingredients, with “season, festivity, and innovation” in mind and prepares them with great “taste, harmony and care.”
6) Yoshinori Ishii
As an executive chef of Umu in London, Chef Yoshinori Ishii brings over 20 years of cooking experience to the elegant dishes the restaurant is famed for. Aside from being a highly accomplished chef, he is also a skilled fisherman, potter, and calligrapher. Chef Ishii has a rare eye for artful display and flavour, incorporating his expertise not only as a chef, but also a skilled artist into each dish. Chef Ishii trained for nine years at the three Michelin-starred restaurant Kyoto Kitcho, Japan. Following his time at Kyoto Kitcho, he then became head chef at the Japanese Embassy for the United Nations in Geneva and New York, after which he worked as omakase chef at Morimoto restaurant also in New York. During his time there, he received the prestigious ‘rising star chef’ award and was a finalist for the Vilcek prize for culinary arts. In August 2013, he was nominated as a rising star by Masaharu Morimoto.
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