Artur Gomes wins the Social Responsibility Award

Chef Artur Gomes from Portugal has been announced as the winner of the S.Pellegrino Social Responsibility Award, a collateral award of the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition 2022-23.

Gomes beat 14 other young chef hopefuls to the global award, all of whom were winners of the prize at their respective regional finals, and will now travel to the Grand Finale in Milan in October. The prize is given to the chef whose signature dish best interprets the principle that food is better when it is the result of socially responsible practices and is voted for by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).

Gomes won with his signature dish, ‘”Vale das Lobas” celeriac’, which the SRA describes as a dish that “not only champions hyper-local ingredients, but also showcases regenerative agricultural processes that are being introduced with soil health and climate in mind.”

“I am honoured to have received this recognition that is so important to me,” says Gomes. “Social responsibility should be a collective commitment that goes beyond our restaurant. With my dish I wanted to show how sustainability should start from our communities, our artisans and the region. My hope is that through sustainable constructions, regenerative farming and resource management we aren’t only regenerating this land but also this community.”