Bruno CIRINO

Chef : 2 restaurants

Presentation

Born in Italy, Bruno Cirino arrived in Alsace at a very young age in the luggage of his parents, who had intended him for the priesthood. The Church may have lost a good man, but the kitchen has gained a great chef, one whose legacy the younger generation love to claim.

Bruno Cirino, who lives in a beautiful, modest 16th-century house in a small Provencal village high above the Rock of Monaco, is a fitting reminder of this. This unrivalled chef, who prefers his old grey apron to a white breastplate studded with decorations, makes the rounds of his unique producers every day. They reserve their wares for him, guaranteeing the exclusivity of the chef's cuisine.

For this former pupil of Roger Vergé, Alain Ducasse (when the latter was working at Juana) and Jacques Maximin, with whom he forged and Jacques Maximin, with whom he has forged an unbreakable bond, is all about the product, simplicity, but also diabolical precision and the ultimate sense of just taste, the one that separates the world into two unequal parts.

Yes, Bruno Cirino is a savant, a "knowing" as we say these days, and a master. His Hostellerie Jérôme, which he took over in the late 1990s with his wife Marion, a former harp virtuoso, is now one of the most exciting houses on the Mediterranean.