Join us for two nights of gastronomic delights at the Grand Hotel Timeo and Villa Sant'Andrea!

An exclusive package including two nights in Junior Suite with daily breakfast, two gourmet dinners with two Michelin star Chefs and a lively excursion to the Catania fish market, completed with a visit to a puppet-making workshop with an exclusive puppetry performance.

29-30 September - Grand Hotel Timeo and Villa Sant'Andrea, Taormina

Pietro Leemann, Joia, Milan - 1 Michelin Star

After a spell in Osaka, Japan and China, Swiss-born Pietro Leemann opened his Milan restaurant, Joia, in 1989. It became the first vegetarian restaurant in Europe to receive a Michelin star in 1996. His style is called “natural cuisine” and uses only organic ingredients carefully sourced from around Italy. Incidentally, the name Joia is fabricated: a mix of “joy” in English and “gioia” in Italian, because Pietro believes eating should always be a joy.

Pietro will delight us with an unexpected vegetarian menu.

• The wildest dish he’re ever created?

“Tribute to Surrealism”, an innovative dish he created in 1990

• His essential ingredients?

Yoghurt and ginger

• If he weren’t a chef?

Architect or doctor; in fact, cuisine is both architecture and a way to stay healthy

Heinz Beck, La Pergola, Rome - 3 Michelin Stars

La Pergola, situated in the Rome Cavalieri hotel, is the proud winner of three Michelin stars. Multi-award-winning Executive Chef Heinz Beck has been conjuring his magic there since 1994, producing exciting contemporary cuisine with a respect for culinary tradition. He loves Italy — in fact, his wife is Sicilian — and likes to joke that he’s the most famous German in Rome.

His dishes resemble works of art, and he loves to paint in his spare time.

• The wildest dish he's ever created?

Called “Mare”, it’s a hard brick of crustaceous and velvet potatoes, covered with a boiling fish consommé that makes it melt and look like a sea full of fish

• His essential ingredients?

Tomato

• If he weren’t a chef?

He’d be a painter