Chef Ali Santa Cruz
Chef At Home in Hastings
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Brazilian-born chef raised in Italy, with 13+years cooking across Europe and the UK; bringing Portuguese, Italian and Brazilian soul to private dining
I’m a Brazilian-born chef with over 13 years of experience cooking across Portugal, Italy, Brazil and the UK. I trained professionally at IGA in Recife and have worked in everything from seafood restaurants and pizzerias to daytime cafés and winery kitchens. I now work as Sous Chef at Balfour Winery alongside running my own private catering and supper club evenings. My cooking is rooted in Italian and Brazilian traditions but shaped by everywhere I’ve lived, expect honest ingredients, bold flavour and food that feels personal.
More about me
For me, cooking is...
A way of connecting people to place and memory, whether that’s a long lunch in someone’s home or a six-course evening built around a single season.
I learned to cook at...
A family-run Italian pizzeria where I started as an apprentice at 15, then formalised it with a culinary diploma at IGA in Recife, Brazil.
A cooking secret...
Flavour just comes naturally to me. I don’t overthink it, I taste, I trust my instincts, and I know when something’s right.
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