Our Team

Vincent Zanardi: Executive Pastry Chef

Vincent Zanardi, our executive pastry chef, was born near Paris, where, for the most part, he was brought up by his grandmother, an excellent home-cook. As a boy he became fascinated with everything to do with the kitchen. Many of his parents’ friends were chefs, and he would watch riveted as they seemed almost magically, to produce delicious dishes from a mere few, simple ingredients. At 15, he was apprenticed at La Maison d’Alsace in Paris, where his supervisor noticed his gift for pâtisserie-making and suggested that he devote himself to this speciality. Vincent went on to chef in many Michelin-starred kitchens in France, before working for Joël Robuchon and coming to London at his behest in 2006, to help open L’ Atelier de Robuchon in Covent Garden, which was soon awarded a Michelin Star. Since 2012 he has been pivotal to the running of the five restaurants housed within Robin’s clubs, and now he has assumed yet another rôle, becoming Robin’s partner in Birley Bakery.