Chief profile: Andrey Shmakov

I agree, it’s not fair for everyone to know about good restaurants, but few know about the chefs who cook there and create the menu. As The Fashion Vibes, we decided to remedy this situation and created the “Chief Survey” section, where we will introduce you to the main chefs not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia.

According to the Wheretoeat restaurant award, this time we are talking with Michelin star owner and chef of the year Andrey Shmakov. By the way, you can see him in the Master Chef Kids program on STS channel. But if you’re away from television and want to meet the titled chef after learning about all his achievements, pay attention for three minutes.

Until you Google what else the chef is known for, we recommend that you study his biography in our material. Shall we begin?

Andrey Shmakov.

49.5 years old.

savva

With fried sausage and cheese. When I was 9, my grandmother brought sausages to the kitchen and asked me not to touch them. I took this as a challenge, bought sausages, punched holes in them, filled them with cheese and baked them. This is where it started.

kebabs Get the recipe from Andrey Shmakov: for three kg. pork – two kg. cracked tomatoes, two sweet peppers, a head of garlic, any greens, hot pepper.

Grind all this, pour over the meat, leave for a maximum of 12 hours and you will have the most delicious pork skewers. Forgive me vegans.

The most delicious cuisine is Italian because it is the most honest.

I hate baking desserts, pies, eclairs – all this is not my element.

My mother’s Napoleon.

I have a billion of them (laughs). Perhaps one of the most ridiculous is about the hot pepper when I clean it without gloves … Then I went to the toilet. Also without details, but strongly compressed. Now only with gloves.

Grandma’s whites.

You will always be full and you will always be on top.

I don’t have any ingredients that I hate, but I never want to cook maggots, bugs, spiders, I think it’s all nonsense. Still, who knows, maybe 10 years from now, we’ll all be eating bugs.

Communication with people.

Rice. When I cook rice and invite my friends, everyone knows it will be delicious and also very friendly because I always have vodka for my signature rice.

I’ve dreamed all my life, but my real dreams haven’t come true yet.