Marvin Gauci is a chef and

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from

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. He also serves as the chief

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of the Dinner in the Sky in Malta. Gauci is the Ambassador of Gastronomy, serving as an official representative in foreign and domestic affairs for Malta.

Biography

After completing secondary school, Gauci started his formal education at the

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. In 1997, he traveled to Ireland to pursue his career where he worked first 6 months in a catering service before joining the Buswells Hotel which is a Georgian hotel that dates back to 1882 and is located next to the Dáil in

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. Later he came back to Malta where he opened his first restaurant, Wild Thyme in

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. Then he started operating four of Malta’s most successful eateries. In 2007 he launched Tarragon in St Paul's Bay followed by Caviar & Bull in 2014 that is located in Saint Julian's and Buddhamann in 2015 which was later closed and replaced with a new restaurant named Sussurus. In 2016, Marvin joined the Dinner in the Sky as a chef in Malta which is a novelty restaurant service that uses a crane to hoist its diners, table, and

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into the air and has been named as one of the world's ten most unusual restaurants by the ''

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'' magazine. In the following year he joined the historic hotel, Corinthia Hotel Budapest. He has collaborated with chef

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and worked in

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, Skylon,

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and Novikov up-market restaurants in central London and cooked in different restaurants in Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Austria and the UK. He was the chief chef for the

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. In 2018, Marvin was awarded the ''Best Chef of the Year'' by the Best of Budapest and Hungary Awards organization.

References

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