Relais & Châteaux and S. Pellegrino award the 2025 Rising Chef Trophy to Chefs Elia Calcinotto, Chef de Cuisine, and Riccardo Celeghin, Pastry Chef at Agli Amici dal 1887 in Udine, for their dedication and promising future. Riccardo and Elia (respectively 29 and 31 years old) are representative of a new generation of chefs trained to the highest level. Their culinary creativity and ability to anticipate trends through their own gastronomic research have ensured their work is both renowned and inspiring. They share their values and vision with the youngest members of the team with passion, often involving them in their creative process.
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Restaurant in town. Agli Amici, which was thus named in the 1960s when it was a meeting place for a group of friends from the village, is a wonderful family adventure, which started in 1887 as a café-tobacconist. At present it is run by siblings: Michela ensures that the tradition of hospitality lives on and promotes wines from small producers and forgotten vineyards. In the kitchen, Emanuele reinvents traditional dishes and gives pride of place to the produce of this region which boasts both mountains and the sea – sea bass, sea urchins, pork, vegetables –, whilst wild herbs gathered in the surrounding area add an original finishing touch to meticulously produced dishes. ... Learn moreless
