Simone Zanoni
Simone Zanoni (born 25 June 1976) is an Italian chef. He is the chef at the "George", one of the three restaurants of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, one star at the Michelin guide. He was before a chef at the restaurants of Gordon Ramsay, two and three Michelin stars. Early life and career. Simone Zanoni was born in Salò and grew in Lombardy in a farm of Provaglio Val Sabbia, near the lake Garda. He was initaled early into cooking, where his family made its own charcuterie, vegetables and cheeses. During the summer, he visited his  grandparents at the mountain, helping his grandfather making cheeses and his grandmother making tortellini. She also learned him a lot technically, especially the cookings. On the advice of his father, he followed cooking studies at the "Istituto Alberghiero polivalente" in Idro while working the weekend in a cooking team on the lake Garda. Graduated at the age of 18, he decided to move to London to learn English. He began working in a trattoria called the "Mediterraneo", while following classed at Le Cordon Bleu to improve himself. Career. Thanks to a job offer, Simone Zanoni started working as a cooking  assistant in a restaurant of Gordon Ramsay, the Michelin starred restaurant "Aubergine" in London, before becoming chef de partie. In January 2001, he became sous-chef in the restaurants of Ramsay, working in the restaurants "Amarylis" (one Michelin star), "Petrus" (two Michelin stars) and the "Claridge's" (one Michelin star). In 2003, Simone Zanoni briefly returned working in Italy at the restaurant "Dal Pescatore" in Canneto sull'Oglio. In August 2003, after the accidental death of the chef David Dempsey, he became at age 27 the chef of the restaurant "Gordon Ramsay" in London, the only restaurant having three Michelin stars  in the British capital. In 2007, he moved to Versailles where he became the chef of the restaurant "Gordon Ramsay" at the Trianon Palace (two Michelin stars). In September 2016, Simone Zanoni became the chef of the "George", the Mediterranean restaurtant of the Hotel George V, opened since October 2015, second table of the restaurant after "Le Cinq", three starred table of chef Christian Le Squer. The hotel then opened a third table named "L'Orangerie" with Alain Taudon. In 2017, the "George" obtained a first Michelin star. In 2017, Simone Zanoni also created a vegetable garden for the restaurant, at  the Domain of Montreuil in the Yvelines on a parcel of 3,000 m, managed by 5 gardeners, including people in professional reinsertion. Engaged in the preservation of the environment and for a "reasoned" gastronomy, Simone Zanoni created a bio-virtuous system, the trash of the "George" is transformed into composting used to nourish the grounds of the vegetable garden. He was also chef of the kasher restaurant "Le Rafaël" in Paris, opened in 2014 and closed since, and opened a pizzeria in Versailles named "Pizzeria César by Simone Zanoni". Other activities. Passionated of cars, Simone Zanoni is an ambassador for  Porsche.