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THE SKY OF ROME HAS A NEW STAR: LA TERRAZZA DELL’EDEN
Chef Fabio Ciervo, Executive Chef of the exclusive Hotel Eden, has received the first Michelin star
in the 2013 guide’s edition.
Rome, 15 Novembre 2012 – The 2013 edition of the Michelin Guide recognizes the significant work of chef
Fabio Ciervo of Rome’s Terrazza dell’Eden, the restaurant of the Hotel Eden, one of the most fascinating and
intimate hotels in Italy. Just two years after his entry in the kitchen, Ciervo has been awarded his very welldeserved first Michelin star.
LaTerrazza dell’Eden, which from the beginning has been an important reference point in the world of high-end
restaurants in Rome, has succeeded in combining the emphasis on gastronomic quality with the extraordinary
location—boasting a view of Rome’s rooftops and cupolas as far as the eye can see—without allowing one to take
over the other. Instead, the two elements come together to create an unforgettable experience that one could call
“panoramic cuisine.”
As the Michelin Guide’s review states: “The young chef has added a seductive and incredibly varied cuisine, an
unending carousel of international specialties and products: from France to the Mediterranean nothing escapes
him, not even caviar.”
Among the proposed dishes, besides the restaurant’s flagship — a version of Ballotin of foie gras that periodically
undergoes slight variations according to the season—notable dishes include Pastificio dei Campi spaghetti with
pecorino cheese, cinta senese cured bacon, Madagascar black pepper, and scented with rose buds; Roasted saddle
of venison and its sausage with pistachios from Bronte, celeriac, and pear poached in Red Port; and Fillet of sea
bass glazed with mixed vegetables, crayfish bocconcini, and an emulsion of oil from olives from the Santagatesi
hills.
At age 33, Fabio Ciervo already has years of impressive international experience behind him, including time at the
Waterside Inn at Bray (UK), the legendary restaurant that has been holding three Michelin stars for 27 years,
where he worked beside Michel Roux. After studying at the most important institutions of high cuisine in the
world, including l’Ecole Lenôtre, the acclaimed French gastronomic school, he continued his career at the
restaurant of London’s Grosvenor House and at the three-Michelin-star restaurant of chef Matin Berastegui in San
Sebastian in Spain. Since October 2010, Fabio Ciervo has guided the brigade of the restaurant of the Hotel Eden.
Fabio Ciervo follows his own specific vision that intertwines international techniques and influences into Italian
tradition with a rigorous and attentive eye towards nutrition and health, which today is becoming more and more
requested in the world of haute cuisine. With a menu that changes every season and ingredients selected, among
other things, for the colors they bring to a dish, Fabio Ciervo also exalts the visual aspect of the gastronomic
experience.
“La Terrazza dell’Eden,” taste and beauty in the sky of Rome.
TERRAZZA DELL’EDEN
Via Ludovisi 49 · 00187 Roma
Tel. +39 06 4781 2752
www.laterrazzadelleden.com
Opening hours:
Lunch 12.30 - 14.30 | Dinner 19.30 - 22.30
Always open
ABOUT HOTEL EDEN
Since Francesco Nistelweck and Berta Hassler decided to open the Hotel Eden at the end of the last century, men
and women who have made modern-day history—royalty, heads of state, celebrities in the world of science, art,
and show business—have frequented and continue to visit this centuries-old palazzo immersed in the green
gardens of Villa Borghese, Villa Ludovisi, and Villa Malta and located just minutes from Trinità dei Monti and
Via Veneto. In 1994, the hotel underwent a significant and impressive renovation that lasted for almost three years
and restored the Hotel Eden to its timeless splendor, thus creating a hotel with a strong self-identity in which
luxury equals refined elegance and never ostentation; in which the harmonious matching of furniture and details
makes the hotel seem as intimate as a private home—“your” home above Rome.
At the helm of this prestigious “house of hospitality” is Marcel Lévy, a leading figure in the international hotel
business, a “citizen of the world” with a personal and professional history of rare importance and a staunch
supporter of the Italian tradition of hospitality. All of this has given the Hotel Eden a personal touch very much
appreciated by the extremely demanding international clientele that frequents or has stayed in the hotel, including
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Robin Williams, Naomi Campbell, Cindy
Crawford, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Wynona Rider, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Antonio Banderas, Ralph Fiennes, Harrison Ford, Leonardo Di Caprio, Martin Scorsese, Cameron Diaz, Daniel
Day-Lewis, John Malkovich, Simon& Garfunkel, Willem Dafoe, and Bill Murray.
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