07 Nov The Michelin Guide 2020 awards the most starred Italian chef: Enrico Bartolini

After more than 25 years Milan returns to have a three-star rating. It was 1993 when Gualtiero Marchesi closed the shop in Via Bonvesin de la Riva to bring to Erbusco, among the hills of Franciacorta, the greatest tribute that the most famous gastronomic guide in the world can confer to a restaurant.

A recognition now that comes to Enrico Bartolini in a special year: ten years after the first star (awarded in 2009 to Le Robinie, the first restaurant that Enrico opened in Oltrepò Pavese) and close to the important goal of forty years, which the chef will accomplish in just over two weeks.   Three stars that for Enrico have not only “the taste of victory”, but also that of recognizability and credibility.

Milan is today an international metropolis that enjoys the interest and attention of a cosmopolitan public. “It is an honor to have brought the three stars back to Milan,” comments Bartolini. “Milan has always represented a duality for me: so beloved and, at the same time, so feared … But fears have become stimuli and it is here, in fact, that I decided to establish my headquarters: it is at Mudec that ideas are born. and the projects we then transfer to other restaurants. Milan is creativity, thanks also to the many talented colleagues who are doing an excellent job in the gastronomic proposal. ”  

Thus continues the rise of this young cook who as a child dreamed of “making shoes” as his father and three years old, in kindergarten (as it was then called), prepared his first caramel with pine nuts. With these two new assignments, the three stars in Milan and the two stars in Venice, Bartolini conquers a new record: after receiving three years ago in one fell swoop, today with eight (out of five restaurants) he is the holder of a absolute record that in Italy had never happened before.