Herve pronzato biography channel

Arriving in Greece for the first time in 1990, after years of adventurous travel – which seems to be an innate vehicle for his incessant exploration of food – and earlier, since his teens, training as a chef in the top Parisian schools and Michelin-starred restaurants, Herve Pronzato has established himself as one of the country’s most outstanding and exemplary chefs.

With a singular culinary identity, and a force to be reckoned with in the kitchen, he opened Herve in Petralona a few years ago with co-owners George Efthimopoulos and Grigoris Kikis, setting a challenging – and exciting – new standard in Athens’ fine dining scene.

In my many years of writing about gastronomy, I have rarely been so intrigued to not only meet and congratulate, but to gain a deeper understanding of the person behind the whole concept of the kitchen, as I was with Pronzato.

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