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Enoteca Pinchiorri is an
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restaurant in
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,
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. The owners are Giorgio Pinchiorri and French-born Annie Féolde. The chefs are Annie Féolde, Italo Bassi and Riccardo Monco. In 2008, the restaurant was voted 32nd best in the world by the
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'' Restaurant'' magazine. Since 1984, the restaurant has been a recipient of the ''
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'' Grand Award. It has been awarded three stars by the
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in 1993 and 1994 and perennially since 2004.


Annie Féolde

Annie Féolde was the first woman outside France to be awarded three stars for her restaurant. Féolde is from
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, France.Pudlowski, 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,
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.


Alumni

Masahiko Kobe, Iron Chef Italian on
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's ''
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'' from 1997 to the show's final episode in 1999, trained at Enoteca Pinchiorri from 1993 to 1997.


See also

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