Guy Grossi Travels from VIC
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Guy Grossi's Biography
Guy Grossi
is an affable, passionate and playful master chef who specialises in pure
Italian cuisine. He commands three kitchens with discipline, song, music,
creativity and devotion. Guy is the driving force behind one of Melbourne’s
oldest restaurants, Grossi Florentino in Bourke Street Melbourne and the
Venetian style The Merchant in Collins Street.
A popular
media personality, Guy is a judge on the top rating My Kitchen Rules. He
co-hosted the Italian special series of Food Safari series for SBS with Mauve O’Mara,
has made regular appearances on MasterChef, A Current Affair , Today Show,
Sunrise and across all networks as talking about and presenting food from all
angles as the fun, flamboyant, skilled and entertaining Chef. On the Seven
Network, Guy also starred alongside Neil Perry and Guillaume Brahimi as an Ironchef.
Internationally,
Guy has made television appearances around the world, from breakfast television
in Italy and the US to providing hospitality as a Masterchef across activities
for G’Day USA.
Guy
enthusiastically shares his love and excitement for tradition and in creating
the exceptional dish on stage, at festivals and for corporate special
experiences. He has plenty of stories to tell relating to his family heritage,
the history of recipes, and his own personal journey as one of Australia’s most
successful Chefs.
He started
cooking with his father Pietro, who was originally brought out from Italy by
his grandparents to work as a chef in their restaurant Mario’s. Guy then worked
at a seafood restaurant with a “mad chef, a Czech who was very hard. He used to
make me cry a lot when I was 15”. He says this gave him strength for the next
jobs before he joined Tolarno’s where his father was working. He was then at Two
Faces with Hermann Schnieder, and after that he went into his own place, Quadri.
Guy is
natural performer and with a huge personality, wit and charm, he’s a colourful
and entertaining master chef.