"Chef Massimo Bottura is without a doubt one of the foremost ambassadors of modern Italian cuisine. Bottura formed a culinary foundation that combined regional Italian cooking and classical French training. He further refined his style under legendary Alain Ducasse at Louis XV in Monte Carlo.

In 1995, Bottura opened his Osteria Francescana in historic central Modena, where he was able to freely blend his creative take on Italian cuisine with cutting edge contemporary art and design, bringing a modern aesthetic to the junction of tradition and innovation. The restaurant along with Bottura featured in the second season of Master Of None on Netflix.
Would Bottura ever consider taking up a more permanent business endeavor in the Big Apple? Not a chance.
""New York is a place I feel at home,"" Bottura said in an interview with Food and Wine magazine . ""I have so many friends, so many friends—I can walk into the kitchen at Eleven Madison Park, Le Bernardin, Daniel, Mario [Batali], Dave Chang—and, you know, they feed me as a friend. It's not as a chef—that's what makes the difference. Since I don't have my mother and my father anymore, and we don't have these long and big family meals, being able to go places where I really have friends, New York is one of these—they feed me with emotions—as if it was my big brother. That's what really makes the difference for me.""
""I live in New York as a New Yorker,"" Bottura continued. ""I have all the time in the world, because I'm not sucked in by the city. That's why I won't open a restaurant in New York—and I never will—because I want to live in New York and enjoy. These are the days I really feel—walking around New York and breathing freedom is one of the most amazing things ever.""