Mauro Colagreco

As a newly qualified chef, Colagreco headed to France and worked with Bernard Loiseau until his death in 2003. He then worked in Paris with Alain Passard at l’Arpège,[2] Alain Ducasse at the Hotel Plaza Athénée and finally spending a year at Le Grand Véfour.[3]

Colagreco established Mirazur in Menton in 2006.[3] Just six months after opening Colagreco received the ‘Revelation of the Year’ award, a brand new category to recognize his merits, from Gault&Millau, and in less than a year, he earned his first Michelin star.[1] His second Michelin star was awarded six years later.[4]

Mirazur became officially one of the best restaurants in the world listed in The S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants.[5] In the same year, Colagreco was also awarded “Chef of the Year” by the prestigious Gault & Millau restaurant guide - the first non-French chef ever to receive this title.[6]

His third Michelin star was awarded in January 2019.[7]

In June 2019, Mirazur was elected the best restaurant in the world by The World's 50 Best Restaurants.[8]

Colagreco has imposed a style of his own in the interpretation of ingredients and the contrast of flavours.[9] This style is not rooted in his Italian-Argentine cultural heritage and does not refer to the experienced chefs with whom he worked in France.[10]

In 2022, Colagreco was the very first chef to be named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for biodiversity.[11]

• MIRAZUR: The first restaurant of Mauro Colagreco in Menton, France.[12]
• AZUR, in Beijing, China.[13]
• Grill 58°, in Macao, China.[14]
• Le Siècle, in Nanjing, China.[15]
• Grandcoeur, in Paris, France.[16]
• BFire, in Courchevel, France.[17]
• Le Majestic Bfire, in Cannes, France.[18]
• Carne, in La Plata, Argentina.[19]
• Carne, in Olivos, Argentina.[20]

• 2009: Cuisinier de l’Année in Gault Millau[21]
• 2017 : Nommé Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite[22]
• 2017: Mirazur becomes a member of Les Grandes Tables du Monde[23]
• 2018: Mirazur: The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants, #3[24]
• 2019: Mirazur: The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants, #1[25]