08-12-2015
Giancarlo Princigalli, born in Milan in 1978, has been the restaurant and f&b manager at Alyn Williams, the restaurant inside the Westbury hotel in Mayfair, 5 stars luxury, since 2010. Princigalli has been working in London since 1999, «a town experiencing an extraordinary growth and offering great opportunities»
Giancarlo Princigalli, has been working in London since 1999. He was born in 1978 in Milan to a mother from Bergamo and a father from Apulia : «I graduated from the Carlo Porta catering school in my town», he sums up his experience, «and after the military service I left for London straight away: at 20 I had my first experience at the Savoy. I should have stayed for a year and a half to learn the language but a series of events made me stay». For 16 years in a row. Now he's the restaurant and f&b manager at the Alyn Williams, the restaurant inside the Westbury hotel in Mayfair, 5 stars luxury, he doesn't forget the events that led him here: «I cut my teeth at Pétrus, in the years when the patron Gordon Ramsey was also opening Claridge’s. Those were very hard years, of which I have great memories». He set a precise goal right away: «I'm working 14 hours a day while others are having fun, I'd think. This job is so hard that if I can't get to become a restaurant manager by the age of 30, I'll change career».
Alyn Williams, the hotel Westbury's restaurant: 16 tables for around 50 seats maximum. The chef is one of the speaker at Identità Milano 2016, on March the 6th
Giancarlo Princigalli (photo by John Carey)
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born in Milan, 1973, freelance journalist, coordinator of Identità Golose World restaurant guidebook since 2007, he is a contributor for several magazines and teaches History of gastronomy and Culinary global trends into universities and institutes. twitter @gabrielezanatt instagram @gabrielezanatt
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