Italian
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restaurant
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in
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence ...
,
Italy
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. The owners are
Giorgio Pinchiorri
Giorgio Pinchiorri (born 6 October 1946) is an Italian sommelier. He is the cofounder with Annie Féolde of the Enoteca Pinchiorri restaurant in Florence.
Biography
Pinchiorri was first drawn to the world of wine during the 1958 FIFA World Cup ...
and French-born
Annie Féolde
Annie Féolde is a French chef, best known for holding three Michelin stars at her restaurant Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Italy. She was the first female chef in Italy to win that level of accolade, and only the fourth ever.
Career
Born near ...
. The chefs are Annie Féolde, Italo Bassi and Riccardo Monco. In 2008, the restaurant was voted 32nd best in the world by the
British
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Restaurant
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magazine
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. Since 1984, the restaurant has been a recipient of the ''
Wine Spectator
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'' Grand Award. It has been awarded three stars by the
Michelin Guide
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in 1993 and 1994 and perennially since 2004.
Annie Féolde
Annie Féolde
Annie Féolde is a French chef, best known for holding three Michelin stars at her restaurant Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Italy. She was the first female chef in Italy to win that level of accolade, and only the fourth ever.
Career
Born near ...
was the first woman outside France to be awarded three stars for her restaurant. Féolde is from
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionPudlowski, Gilles. ''Great Women Chefs of Europe''. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2005. Print. Beyond working as a chef, Féolde has served as a bureaucrat in Paris, owner-operator, and instructor to her apprentices. As a young chef, Franck Cerutti worked under Féolde for seven years. Annie Féolde was featured in ''Great Women Chefs of Europe'', which was written by revered journalist and food critic, Gilles Pudlowski.
Fuji TV
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's ''
Iron Chef
is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle buil ...
'' from 1997 to the show's final episode in 1999, trained at Enoteca Pinchiorri from 1993 to 1997.
See also
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List of Michelin three starred restaurants
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