Profile of the chief: Ilya Blagoveshchensky

Agree, it is not fair that everyone knows good restaurants, but only a few know the chefs who cook there and create the menu. We at The Fashion Vibes decided to fix this situation and created the “Chef Profile” section, where we will introduce you to the main chefs not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia.

This time we are talking with Ilya Blagoveshchensky, the brand chef of the Sapiens and Magma projects. By the way, an interesting fact: Ilya is not the first chef in the family. His grandmother worked as a chef all her life, so he grew up in an atmosphere of gastronomy and later decided to continue the dynasty himself. Before moving to Moscow, Ilya was responsible for the kitchen of restaurants in the south of Russia; he worked on projects in Sochi and Rostov-on-Don. And you know him from the Sapiens restaurant since 2022.

But before examining other merits of the chef, we suggest you find the most interesting details of his biography in our material.

So, shall we get started?

Ilya Blagoveshchensky.

It’s rude to ask a man’s age… He’s 40.

Sapiens and Magma Lounge Bar.

From birth and grandma’s cooking.

Boring foods – meat, fish and root vegetables.

Homemade, because it’s without pretense.

Dough. He and I go our separate ways, like our exes.

Something I prepare myself. For example, borscht.

I once made a complex broth using pot-au-feu (a French hot dish of beef and vegetables). Premium. to organise.), cooked it for three hours, babysitting it like a capricious woman. Then I forgot to put the pan in, so I poured it through a sieve into the sink.

Grandma’s pies with any filling and mom’s onion cutlets.

What do chefs cook at home?

Cardamom.

Because in life you can realize yourself and give emotions to people.

Rooster soup and shish kebab.

Your own restaurant on the Mediterranean coast.