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Umberto Bombana
Italian chef
Umberto Bombana (born 1963) is an Italian chef and co-owner of three Michelin star restaurant 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana.[1]
He is hailed as the "King of White Truffles" and was appointed a "Worldwide Ambassador of the White Truffle" by the Piedmontese Regional Enoteca Cavour.[2]
Career
A native of Clusone, Bergamo in Northern Italy, Bombana was inspired by his grandmother who used to cook for an aristocratic family.
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As a child, his pastime was eating and observing all stages of his grandmother's meal preparation.[3]
After finishing hotel school, Bombana trained and apprenticed at one of the best Italian restaurants at that time, Antica Osteria del Ponte, with acclaimed chef Ezio Santin.[4]
In 1983 he moved to Los Angeles to work with one of the most respected Italian restaurateurs, Mauro Vincenti.
In the 1990s he arrived in Hong Kong to open Toscana at the Ritz-Carlton. “I knew I wanted to come to As