Chef Luca Mascolo was born in Italy, 

He grew up between the farmfields. At the early age of 10 he already knew he wanted to become a Chef. 

Cum laude finished Chef school earlier than classmates. He joined a national cooking competition at 16 in which he competed with older competitors and managed to get the 3rd place. His career at the beginning already started off well. 

He wanted to gain the best experiences and worked for Michelin starred restaurants and world renowed now 3 Michelin key resorts like Aman in Venice, Montenegro and run the Amanpuri kitchen in Phuket. When he met his other half Brigitta Houkamp he felt the time was right to start his own restaurant together. Starting off with a Smokaccia his newly invented sourdough that he called The Smokaccia. When they could extend after 1,5 year and at that moment made a restart with their dream restaurant, highest level fine-dining 18 courses

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