Wini Brugger

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Wini Brugger (born April 8, 1961 in Achenkirch , Tyrol ) is an Austrian chef.

Career

Wini Brugger grew up in Feldkirchen in Carinthia and completed his cooking apprenticeship in 1979 at the Glocknerhof in Heiligenblut in Carinthia with distinction. His path then led him to the Vienna Hilton (1980–1981), where he continued his training with Werner Matt, the doyen of Austrian culinary art.

At Le Richmond in Geneva , he worked intensively on French haute cuisine (1981–1982). Finally he devoted himself to oriental-Mediterranean cuisine at the King Salomon Grill in Tel Aviv (1982–1983).

Brugger made a career leap through his engagement as head chef of the Cape Cod Room at the Drake Hotel in Chicago (1983–1985). Brugger's head chef Leo Waldmeier and head chef and friend Franz Kranzfelder motivated him to deal with Asian cuisine.

Brugger accepted an offer at the Hilton Hotel in Hong Kong , where he first became head of the then famous Grill Room and a short time later was promoted to Executive Chief of the hotel through his mentor and general manager James Smith. From 1986 to 1992, Wini Brugger managed the five-star hotel. During this time he wrote his first cookbook “The Cutting Edge”, a homage to Hong Kong as the melting pot of Asia.

Numerous awards at international cooking competitions followed, including winning the Frankfurt Cooking Olympiad in 1992. As the culinary director of the Asia Pacific Region for Hilton Hotels (1992–1995), Wini Brugger got to know and appreciate the most diverse culinary cultures in Asia.

Motivated by the Hong Kong entrepreneurial spirit, Brugger also tried other areas. In 1995 he wrote and produced the TV cooking show “Wild Ginger” and the book for the show “Asian Fusion”, which redefines this topic. At the 1997 Frankfurt Book Fair , “Asian-Fusion” received the gold medal for “Best Cookbook”. He has also worked on culinary projects between Shanghai , Saigon , Dubai and Sydney .

In 1999 Brugger followed the call to his old home. With his current partner Klaus Piber, Brugger opened the Yohm restaurant in Vienna, which offers modern Asian dishes. The restaurant received the “Trophée Gourmet 2000” award.

In 2001 the Indochine 21 opened on the Stubenring in Vienna. There Wini Brugger presents a fusion cuisine in which traditional Vietnamese recipes are combined with French culinary art. The Falstaff magazine awarded the Indochine 21 with the title “Restaurant of the Year 2004”. In 2006, Wini Brugger was named “Ethno Chef of the Year 2006/07” from Atlas Verlag . In 2010 the Asian restaurant XO-NOODLES was opened in Vienna. He has been running the Winisan pub in Vienna since December 2015. Since September 2017 he has been responsible for the kitchen in the Viennese dinner club "Albertina Passage" in the former pedestrian passage Albertinapassage .

Cookbooks

  • Wini Brugger: The Cutting Edge. Odyssey Productions, Hong Kong 1993, ISBN 0-470-23425-3 .
  • Wini Brugger: Go Wild (book for the series "Wild Ginger"). Salon Films Productions, Hong Kong 1995, ISBN 962-217-462-0 .
  • Wini Brugger, Simon de Courcy Wheeler: Asian Fusion. Wiley, New York 1997, ISBN 0-470-24423-2 .
  • Wini Brugger, Paul Landl, Simon Wheeler: dream recipes for Europe's palate. A Eurasian merger. Orac, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7015-0463-6 .
  • Wini Brugger: The Brugger. The Indochine cuisine of the 21st century. Brugger Culinary Entertainment, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-200-00813-7 .
  • Wini Brugger: The delicious Asian diet. Live-Verlag, Vienna 2007,

TV appearances

Series

  • 1995: "Wild Ginger" for a TV station in Hong Kong
  • Regular appearances in the format "Spring Time" / "Summer Time" / "Autumn Time" / "Winter Time" of the ORF

Documentation

  • "The scent of green papaya"
  • "Biblical Pleasures"
  • "Chili, curry, coconut"
  • "Hong Kong and Macau" - premiered April 10, 2011

Awards

  • 1992 - Victory at the Frankfurt Cooking Olympiad
  • 1997 - Gold medal at the Frankfurt Book Fair for "Asian Fusion" as "Best Cookbook"
  • 2000 - “Trophée Gourmet” for the Yohm restaurant
  • 2004 - The Indochine 21 restaurant was named “Restaurant of the Year 2004” by Falstaff Magazine .
  • 2006 - "The Brugger - the Indochine cuisine of the 21st century" - Best cookbook of 2006
  • 2006/2007 - “Ethno Chef” award from Atlas Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ anita.kattinger: New restaurant: Winisan: Wini Brugger opens Japanese Heurigen . ( kurier.at [accessed on November 2, 2017]).
  2. ^ Albertina Passage. Accessed November 2, 2017 (German).
  3. ↑ Specimen copy DNB 987045229 at the German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Brugger, Wini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cook
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Achenkirch , Tyrol