Riccardo Lucque / Chef and owner

Riccardo Lucque started his career in gastronomy at age 16, working in various hotels around Rimini and Pesaro in the Marche region of Italy. In 1990, he began working at Da Alceo restaurant in Pesaro, which specialized in seafood and which boasts one star from the famous gastronomic Michelin Guide. Three years later, at 24, he left for the UK and worked at Zafferano, named the best Italian restaurant in London in 2001 and also the winner of a Michelin star. After a three-month sojourn as head chef of Buco in Manhattan, he returned to the UK, serving as executive chef of a chain of five Italian restaurants in the Thames region. He came to Prague in 2002 as head chef of the restaurant “Square” in Malostranské square.

In April 2005, he opened his first restaurant, Aromi, in Vinohrady. After four years, in 2009, he opened a second restaurant, La Finestra in Cucina in nearby Staroměstské square in the centre of Prague.

lucque@lafinestra.cz

Tomáš Černý / Chef

Tomáš Černý is Chef of La Finestra restaurant. He joined our Aromi team in 2007. His prior experience was in the Hotel Ambassador and 3 years under a Michelin star chef, Vito Molica in Allegro at the Four Seasons hotel in Prague. Under Vito Molica´s guidance, Tomáš has gained excellent experience and knowledge of different techniques of cooking. Due to his talent and passion for cooking, he has become the right hand of Riccardo in La Finestra in Cucina.

cerny@lafinestra.cz