Andrew Carmellini is an American chef and restaurateur. Carmellini is responsible for the food and drink at the 15 restaurants, bars and food stands he owns with his partners at NoHo Hospitality. He has received a place on ''Food & Wine''’s Best New Chefs list,

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Rising Star Chef and Best Chef New York awards, and a

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star. He is the author of two cookbooks.

Career

Carmellini began his cooking career at age 14 in his hometown of

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. After a stint at San Domenico in New York City, Carmellini honed worked at restaurants in Europe, including Valentino Marcatili's two-star Michelin restaurant San Domenico in

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, Gualtiero Marchesi di San Pietro all'Orto in Milan and Arpège in Paris. In New York, Carmellini spent four years on Gray Kunz's ''New York Times'' four-star team at Lespinasse and served as sous chef at

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. Carmellini worked as chef de cuisine at

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, where he earned three stars from ''The New York Times'', won The

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's Best New Chef and Best Chef: New York awards and was named to ''Food & Wine''’s Best New Chefs roster. As chef at A Voce, he earned a three-star ''New York Times'' review and a

star. In 2009, Carmellini opened Locanda Verde, a Tribeca Italian taverna, in

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’s Greenwich Hotel with partners Luke Ostrom and Josh Pickard.

Current restaurants

* Carne Mare, a Nashville Italian chophouse * Locanda Verde, a Tribeca Italian taverna * The Dutch, an American bistro in SoHo, NYC, a New York Times Restaurant of the Year * Lafayette, a French grand café in NoHo, NYC * Joe’s Pub, a live music venue & The Library at the Public, a restaurant at

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in New York’s East Village * Bar Primi, a pasta-focused restaurant in New York’s East Village and a

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* Leuca, a southern Italian restaurant in Brooklyn * Westlight, a rooftop bar on the 22nd floor of The William Vale in Brooklyn * Mister Dips, offering burgers at locations in NYC and Detroit * Rec Pier Chop House at the Sagamore Pendry Hotel in Baltimore * Rye Street Tavern, an American eatery in the

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section of Baltimore * At the

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Hotel in Detroit: San Morello, a Southern Italian restaurant, the cocktail lounge Evening Bar, The Brakeman beer hall, and Penny, Red’s, a fried-chicken joint

Cookbooks

With his wife, Gwen Hyman, Carmellini is the author of two books of recipes and stories: ''Urban Italian'', and ''American Flavor''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carmellini, Andrew Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Italian descent American chefs American male chefs American food writers Writers from New York (state) Culinary Institute of America alumni People from Seven Hills, Ohio James Beard Foundation Award winners