Don Melchor Culinary Asia Tour with three-star Michelin chef Bruno Menard

November 02, 2015 | 16:00

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Famous three-star Michelin chef, Bruno Menard, also Don Melchor Brand Ambassador for 2015, has just made the first stop of the Asia Don Melchor Culinary Tour at Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City where he prepared a signature five-course menu to match with five outstanding vintages of Concha Y Toro’s Don Melchor, Chile’s most iconic and awarded wine.

After Vietnam, Bruno will arrive in Singapore, Japan, Shanghai, Korea, Macau and Taiwan to introduce his specialties to diners.

Bruno is one of Asia’s iconic chefs who can express both tradition and innovation in the best way possible and render the subtleties of a food pairing with this Chilean icon.

Famous former three-star Michelin chef of the restaurant “L’Osier” in Tokyo, Bruno Menard is an ever changing chef.

He began his career in the fragrances of chocolate with his father Jean-Claude and with his mentors Charles Barrier and Jean Bardet. At 27 years, he is the youngest French chef to obtain 17/20 and 3 red Chefs hats in the Gault & Millau Guide in the restaurant “Le Golden” in Niort, an area between Paris and Bordeaux.

At 40 years of age, Bruno Menard obtains 5 stars by Mobil Travel Guide and 5 diamonds by AAA (American Automobile Association) in the restaurant “The Dining Room” at the Ritz Carlton Buckhead in Atlanta.

In 2005 Bruno Menard was appointed to the position of chef at “L’Osier” in Tokyo. He took the restaurant in a new “neo-classic” direction that combined traditional French cuisine with the progressive concepts of the era.

During this period, L’Osier was awarded three stars in the Michelin Guide Tokyo for three consecutive years, from 2008, when it was first published, until 2010, when the restaurant was closed for its renovation.

It was in 2007 that the restaurant “L’Osier” in Tokyo (Japan) was awarded its first 3 star by the Michelin Guide. It was the first time in the Michelin Guide’s history, that a restaurant gets 3-star straightaway.

Thanks to the confidence placed in him by Shiseido, Bruno Menard at 45, by directly gaining three stars in the Michelin Guide, joined the exclusive circle of the greatest chefs of the world.

Today, with over 20 years of experience in Asia and more than 15 years in Europe and the US, chef Bruno has launched his own culinary consulting firm Bruno Menard Pte Ltd in 2013, and is also one of the three judges on the television show, MasterChef Asia - launched in September 2015 across Asia.