Francis Mallmann

Francis Mallmann was born in Acassuso, Buenos Aires Province in 1956. In 1958, he moved to Bariloche in Patagonia when his father, Carlos Mallmann, was employed as the head of the Balseiro Institute. It was there that, in 1970, Mallmann started as a cook on a boat for tourists on Lake Nahuel Huapi. At twenty, he began managing a restaurant with a partner. He then travelled to Paris, where he spent over two years learning alongside Paul Bocuse and other reputable chefs.