Marco Campanella from Eden Roc Ascona crowned chef of the year
Published: Monday, Sep 30th 2024, 12:20
Updated At: Tuesday, Oct 1st 2024, 01:59
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Marco Campanella has received the "Chef of the Year 2025" award. He is head chef at the "La Brezza" restaurant in the Hotel Eden Roc in Ascona. The Gault Millau restaurant guide awarded the 32-year-old 19 out of a possible 20 points.
Campanella fascinates with his incredible sauces, his versatility and his talent for inspiring a young team for his mission, the jury of the restaurant guide wrote in a statement on Monday. The fact that he also makes vegans happy "as a matter of course" also sets him apart.
Born in Germany with Italian roots, he cooks at the "La Brezza" restaurant in the Hotel Eden Roc in Ascona in summer and at the "Tschuggen" in Arosa in winter.
In the 2025 edition of the restaurant guide, there are seven chefs who received 19 points: Tanja Grandits (Basel), Peter Knogl (Basel), Franck Giovannini (Crissier VD), Andreas Caminada (Fürstenau GR), Philippe Chevrier (Satigny GE), Heiko Nieder (Zurich) and Marco Campanella (Ascona).
Five new discoveries
The discoveries of the year are Dan Rodriguez-Zaugg and Alejandro Polo ("Sommerlust", Schaffhausen,15 points), André Kneubühler ("The Omnia", Zermatt, 16 points), Quentin Philippe ("Arakel", Geneva, 15 points) and Joao Antunes ("Villa Emden", Isole Brissago TI, 14 points).
Nicolas Darnauguilhem has been named "The Green Chef of the Year". He cooks "where fox and hare say goodnight", as the communiqué puts it, namely in the romantic "Pinte des Mossettes" in the woods around Cerniat FR.
Darnauguilhem fulfills the strict requirements of Bio Suisse and continues to impress the testers. It therefore now receives 17 points.
"Swiss star" in Mauritius
Roman Götsch has been recognized as a Swiss star abroad. The General Manager runs the "One&Ony Le Saint Géran" resort in Mauritius with "inspiring restaurants", according to the press release.
880 restaurants, 100 gourmet hotels and the top 150 Swiss winemakers are listed in the Gault Millau 2025 guide. 103 chefs move up, 42 lose a point.
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