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Samuel
ALBERT

Top Chef 2019 Winner,
Executive chef,
Les petits prés, Angers

Samuel Albert’s careers

Samuel Albert is from Anjou. His parents gives him the taste of garden products and family cooking. Her passion for cooking also comes from her two grandmothers. He attended the Sadi Carnot-Jean Bertin Hotel School in Saumur and then, during his BTS in Hotel Management in Saumur, he did his internship with Joël Robuchon in Monaco. After graduating, he went to work for two years at Joël Robuchon’s workshop in London to learn English. Over the next 10 years, he travelled the world to learn and research new ideas, in the United Kingdom, La Réunion, Switzerland, China, Australia and Japan.

Innovative, flavourful cuisine

In 2019, after his victory in Top Chef season 10, Samuel Albert leaves his position as chef at the Belgian Embassy in Japan to open the restaurant Les Petits Prés on his native lands, a place where he offers a cuisine full of flavours and original products for an invitation to multiple culinary trips.