Our chef, Soledad Nardelli, believes that cooking is a way expressing love. Her vision of cooking is based on being curious, an ongoing training and research making, as key concepts for understanding each product, and then serving them at their most to our guests.
Education
After receiving her diploma as Culinary Art Specialist from IBAHRS, she decided to carry on with her education in Europe. She completed a graduate course at l´Ecole des Arts Culinaires et de l´Hotellerie (Institut Paul Bocuse), Lyon, France, and a restaurant administration course at Universidad de Alicante, Spain.
She spent two years working at different restaurants in the gastronomic community in Valencia, amongst which we must note her work with Paco Torreblanca, and one more year in Barcelona. Back in Argentina she resumed her professional training in first-class restaurants, such as Cholila, Llao Llao Hotel, Katrine and Hotel Internacional Iguazú, amongst others.
Acknowledgments
In her career, Soledad, has received several distinctions, such as
• 2011 Chef (Cuisine & Vins magazine)
•Chef de L’Avenir in 2009 (International Academy of Gastronomy, France)
•Revelation Chef 2010 (Tendencias Gastronómicas)
• Best Young Chef Chef 2009 (Cuisine & Vins magazine)
• Best Signature Cuisine 2011 and 2012, Guía Oleo
•Creative Award, Argentina, for Chila’s Menu 2010
• Argentinean Cuisine Ambassador 2013 (País Brand Agreement)
Television
Cooking means sharing; and Soledad shares her knowledge as party of different shows broadcasted by Gourmet channel in Argentina:
• Nueva generación (New Generation)
• Sabores de mi tierra (My Land Flavors)
• Ligero y liviano (Light and Mild)
•La huerta con Mónica Cahen d´Anvers (A Vegetable Garden with Mónica Cahen d’Anvers)
• Recetas de familia (Family Recipes)
• Sabores del litoral (Flavors from our “Litoral” region)
• Un viaje a la Tierra del Fuego (A trip to Tierra del Fuego)
• Gourmet responde (Gourmet Answers)
•Especial de navidad (Christmas special show)