Discover Benelux | Restaurant of the Month | Luxembourg
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A Luxembourgish reference in gastronomy Chef Renato Favaro’s personal favourite dish, a fondant of Sicilian aubergines with a coulis of August tomatoes and gambas à la plancha, is an Italian classic to warm the soul in the Grand Duchy. TEXT: HARUN OSMANOVIC | PHOTOS: RESTAURANT FAVARO
For the past 30 years’ chef Renato Favaro has been serving the most delicate food for the palates of his guests in Esch-surAlzette, Luxembourg. With a passion for seasonal produce and homely cuisine, Favaro takes pride in creating gastronomical wonders from simple ingredients. After learning his craft in Italy, he has settled in Luxembourg, but not without making a stop in Alsace where he trained for five more years. “Having had parents who brought me up with the love of food and good cuisine,” says chef Favaro. “I had my nose in the casseroles since my earliest age.” It was in 1989 that Favaro’s doors opened in a beautiful mansion of Esch-sur-Alzette, 46 | Issue 26 | February 2016
which was refurbished to host today up to 40 guests. There he delights his clientele with Italian specialties, including classics revisited with white truffles like his flavourful fettuccine façon carbonara. “Although my main inspiration is central Italy, I have the chance, here in Luxembourg, to create dishes from the whole country, revisit them and fuse them with French, Japanese or even Thai touches,” Favaro explains. A visit at Favaro’s is a time to relax in its modern, welcoming and rather luxurious atmosphere. Allow yourself to be guided by the chef who takes orders himself and explains each dish to his guests, helping you choose the right combinations, the
spices, the right pasta for your taste and even the inventive vegetarian dishes of his creation. With four or five menus designed to fit every purse, Renato Favaro is democratising gastronomy, because good food is meant to be shared. “I was born with this instinctive pleasure of cooking,” Favaro explains. “It is in the gut, I was lucky enough to be able to answer that calling, develop it and share it with people.” After 40 years of experience, the passion of Renato Favaro still burns as high as ever, creating dishes with profound love and care. www.favaro-restaurant.lu