Cotogna gets a new chef: Chris Cipollone

Jul 27, 2017 906

BY: Justin Phillips

A few weeks out from his first day as the new executive chef at Cotogna, Quince’s rustic sibling, Chris Cipollone was nearly 3,000 miles away in his New York home, mulling over how to coordinate a short-notice move across the country. “It’s a lot,” he says with a laugh. “But San Francisco was always the dream for my wife and I. Before now, we just didn’t have a away to actually get there.” To successfully (and quickly) uproot a culinary career on one coast and set it down on another, Cipollone said it takes planning, some luck and the right job opportunity.

The East Coast chef was born in New York, Hudson Valley to be exact, and raised by parents that worked in the wine industry. They were also the reason Cipollone enrolled in and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. From there, he traveled to Italy as part of a fellowship before coming back stateside and opening Tenpenny at the Gotham Hotel. In 2013, he opened Piora in New York City’s West Village, which went on to earn a Michelin star in 2015. The menu was based around his penchant for mixing Italian and Korean influences into modern American dishes. Both restaurants are now closed.

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SOURCE: http://www.sfchronicle.com

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