S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018: Local Juries and Mentors

UPDATE 14/05/2018: The wait is over - the winner of S.Pellegrino Young Chef has finally been crowned! Discover which rising star took home the honour of winning S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 and watch all the young chefs of the competition in the 4 live streaming episodes covering the S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 Grand Finale: a true display of extraordinary passion, skill and determination of the new talents in the world of gastronomy.

UPDATE 29/11/2017: All the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Local Finals are now completed and all the 21 finalists have been selected. Find out more about the finalists, look at their signature dishes and follow the interviews with their mentor chefs.

With the third edition of S.Pellegrino Young Chef underway, applications to the global talent search for the best young chef in the world are open.

The names of the chefs that will form each of the 21 local juries (one for every world region) are being finalised and announced one by one.

At the start of June the names of the 210 semifinalists (10 for each region) will be announced and the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Local Competitions 2017 will commence. It’s during this phase that each of the area finalists will be selected to represent the region at the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Grand Final in Milan 2018.

A chef from each local jury has also been selected as the area mentor, and will provide the local finalist with guidance on how to improve their signature dishes and their chance of being crowned S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 on the world platform.

Here are the names of juries and mentors by region, so far.

France

Frédéric Anton - Mentor 
Philippe Mille
Christophe Bacquié

Click here to find out more about the French Jury

Italy

Anthony Genovese - Mentor
Cristina Bowerman
Caterina Ceraudo
Loretta Fanella
Carlo Cracco
Ciccio Sultano

Click here to find out more about the jury for Italy

Japan

Luca Fantin - Mentor
Yoshiaki Takazawa
Thomas Angerer
Zaiyu Hasegawa

Click here to find out more about the jury for Japan

UK-Ireland

Angela Hartnett 
Alyn Williams - Mentor
Phil Howard
Mickael Viljanen

Find out more about the Uk and Ireland jury here

Germany & Austria

Karlheinz Hauser - Mentor
Karl Obauer
Nico Burkhardt
Robert Maas
Sarah Henke

Click here to find out more about the jury for Germany & Austria

Benelux

Peter Goossens - Mentor
Ron Blaauw
Jaimie van Heije
David Martin
René Mathieu

Click here to find out more about the jury for Benelux

China

Jacqueline Qiu - Mentor
Riccardo La Perna
Zhou Xiaoyan
Stefan Stiller
Otto Wong

Click here to find out more about the jury for China

Spain & Portugal  

Oriol Castro - Mentor
Josean Alija
Henrique Sa Pessoa

Click here to find out more about the jury for Spain & Portugal

Africa & Middle East 

Marthinus Ferreira - Mentor
Sascha Triemer
Dominique Grel

Click here to find out more about the jury for Africa & Middle East 

South-East Asia

Richard Ekkebus - Mentor
Chele Gonzalez
Vicky Lau
Mingoo Kang
Tetsuya Wakuda

Click here to find out more about the jury for South-East Asia

Mediterranean Countries

Nikos Roussos - Mentor
Ismet Saz
Haim Cohen

Click here to find out more about the jury forMediterranean Countries

North-East Asia

Umberto Bombana - Mentor
Ray Adriansyah
Andre Chiang
Margarita Fores
Jason Tan

Click here to find out more about the jury for North-East Asia

SCANDINAVIA - BALTICS 

Henri Alén - Mentor
Tom Sjöstedt
James Maxwell-Stewart
Jānis Zvirbulis 
Egidijus Lapinskas
Andrus Laaniste
Nikolaj Schmidt Skadborg

Click here to find out more about the jury for Scandinavia & Baltics

SOUTH AMERICA

Rafael Osterling - Mentor
Harry Sasson 
Rodolfo de Santis 

Click here to find out more about the jury for South America

PACIFIC 

Scott Pickett - Mentor
Jacques Reymond
Andrew McConnell
Christine Manfield
Paul Carmichael

Click here to find out more about the jury for Pacific 

EAST EUROPE

Wojciech Modest Amaro - Mentor
Andras Wolf 
Ana Ros
Florin Scripca
Andre Tokiev 

Click here to find out more about the jury for East Europe 

USA

Gavin Kaysen - Mentor
April Bloomfield
Dave Beran
Daniela Soto-Innes
Mitch Lienhard

Click here to find out more about the jury for USA

CANADA

Riccardo Bertolino - Mentor
Anthony Walsh 
Joël Watanabe
Todd Perrin
Jen Agg

Click here to find out more about the jury for Canada

Central America–Caribbean

Mario Castrellon
Saverio Stassi
Martha Ortiz
Mikel Alonso - Mentor
Edgar Nunez

Click here to find out more about the jury for Central America–Caribbean

Switzerland

André Jaeger - Mentor
Martin Dalsass
Robert Speth
Patrick Zbinden
Markus Linder

Click here to find out more about the jury for Switzerland 

Russia-CIS

Andrey Shmakov - Mentor
Emanuele Pollini 
Dmitriy Blinov
Anatoliy Kazakov
Dmitriy Zotov
Adrian Quetglas
Regis Triguel
Vladimir Mukhin

Click here to find out more about the jury for Russia-CIS

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