S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018: The Local Juries Announced

With S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 well underway, 210 regional semi-finalists have already been selected, the local juries are complete and the local competitions are underway (find out the latest news here).

Each of the 21 regions competing has been allocated a local jury (one for every world region) of world class professional chefs. The team of culinary heavyweights will select the most talented young chef in the region with the capacity to represent the area on the world stage at the Grand Finale of S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 in Milan.

A chef from each local jury has already been, or will be selected as the area mentor, and will provide the local finalist with tutelage and support up until and including the Grand Finale.

See the full list of chefs forming the local jury for each of the 21 regions below plus new of the local winners when the competition has taken place.

(Please note that in some regions the mentor will be announced following the local competition to ensure geographical proximity to the winner's country.)

The Local Jury Members by Region and the Local Finalists, as announced

France

Frédéric Anton - Mentor (you can meet him here)
Philippe Mille
Christophe Bacquié

Click here to find out more about the French Jury

Antonio Buono is the young chef winner for France.

Italy

Anthony Genovese - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Cristina Bowerman
Caterina Ceraudo
Loretta Fanella
Carlo Cracco
Ciccio Sultano

Click here to find out more about the jury for Italy

Edoardo Fumagalli is the Italian winner

Japan

Luca Fantin - Mentor (you can meet him in our interview here)
Yoshiaki Takazawa
Thomas Angerer
Zaiyu Hasegawa

Click here to find out more about the jury for Japan

Yasuhiro Fujio is the young chef winner for Japan.

UK- Ireland

Angela Hartnett
Alyn Williams
Phil Howard
Mickael Viljanen

Find out more about the Uk and Ireland jury here

Germany and Austria

Karlheinz Hauser - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Karl Obauer
Nico Burkhardt
Robert Maas
Sarah Henke

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

Falko Weiß is the regional winner.

Benelux

Peter Goossens - mentor
Ron Blaauw
Jaimie van Heije
David Martin
René Matthieu

Click here to find out more about the jury for Benelux

China

Jacqueline Qiu - Mentor (you can meet her here in our interview here)
Riccardo La Perna
Zhou Xiaoyan
Stefan Stiller
Otto Wong

Click here to find out more about the jury for China

Spain and Portugal

Oriol Castro - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Josean Alija
Henrique Sa Pessoa

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

Africa and Middle East

Marthinus Ferreira - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Sascha Triemer
Dominique Grel

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

Vusumuzi Ndlovu is the young chef winner for Africa and Middle East.

South-East Asia

Richard Ekkebus - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Chele Gosalez
Vicky Lau
Mingoo Kang
Tetsuya Wakuda

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

North-East Asia

Umberto Bombana - mentor (meet him in our interview here)
André Chiang
Jason Tan
Margarita Forés
Ray Adriansyah

NB Gaggan Anand retired from the jury prior to the local competition due to work commitments and was replaced by Umberto Bombana.

Find out more about the north-east Asia jury here.

Mediterranean Countries

Nikos Roussos - Mentor (Meet him in our interview here)
Ismet Saz
Haim Cohen

Find out more about the jury for the Mediterranean Countries here

Constadina Voulgari is the winner for the region.

Switzerland

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

Click here to find out more about the Swiss jury.

David Wälti is the finalist for the region.

South America

Rafel Osterling - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Harry Sasson
Rodolfo de Santis

Meet the South America Local Jury here

Elizabeth Puquio Landeo is the regional finalist.

Russia-CIS

Andrey Shmakov - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Emmanuelle Pollini
Dmitriy Blinov
Anatoliy Kazakov
Dmitriy Zotov
Adrian Quetglas
Regis Triguel
Vladimir Mukhin

Meet the Russia and CIS local jury here.

Scandinavia and Baltics

Henri Alen - Mentor (meet him in our interview here)
Nikolaj Schmidt Skadborg
James Maxwell-Stewart
Jānis Zvirbulis
Egidijus Lapinskas
Andrus Laaniste

Meet the Scandinavia and Baltic local jury here.