A family of outstanding restaurateurs heads the various "Da Vittorio" establishments around the world - one in Brusaporto, Lombardy, another in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and one in Shanghai, - led by the eldest of five children: Enrico, known as Chicco. The Cerea family now boasts a total of Seven MICHELIN Stars.
Enrico, Chicco, Cerea was born in Bergamo in 1964 and grew up surrounded by the wonders of cooking and gastronomy in the family restaurant "Da Vittorio," founded by his father in 1966, together with his wife, and mother of Chicco (the eldest), Francesco, Barbara, Roberto, and Rossella, Bruna. The restaurant earned its first MICHELIN Star in 1978, but it wasn't until 1996 that it received its second star.
After spending five years at a language high school, doing homework hastily to experiment in the kitchen, Chicco flew to Paris, aware that staying at home would limit his knowledge and experience as a future chef. In France, he worked with Jacques Cagna and Roger Vergé, and later moved to Munich, Germany, to work with Heinz Winkler. Those years were ones of experimentation, a profound change in high-level cuisine, and Chicco was already aware of this. Therefore, before definitively returning home – as he would come back to impart new knowledge learned to the brigade between jobs around the world – he went to the Costa Brava to work with Ferran Adrià, and to New York with Jean George Vongerichten and Sirio Maccioni.
Once back home, for good this time, Chicco took over the kitchen reins, assisted by his brother Roberto. Now part of the Relais & Chateaux circuit, in 2005 "Da Vittorio" was moved from the center of Bergamo to its current location in Brusaporto, and in 2010 the restaurant finally achieved its third MICHELIN Star, in addition to the Platinum King of Catering award.
But the five siblings, now in charge of the establishment, were unstoppable: in 2012, they opened "Da Vittorio St. Moritz" in the "Carlton Hotel" in St. Moritz, and in 2019, they launched "Da Vittorio Shanghai"; now both restaurants hold Two MICHELIN Stars each.
During the pandemic, the Cerea family actively participated in the construction and organization of the field hospital erected in the Bergamo Fair area and collaborated in fundraising for donations to intensive care units in hospitals in Bergamo and Rome.
