I am a professional chef with over 25 years of experience, starting in Milan and then moving to London in 2004 where I worked in high-end restaurants mainly in the Mayfair and Chelsea areas. After 15 years I relocated back to Sardinia, where I grew up, and I am now pursuing a career as a private chef to combine my passion for cooking and the Sardinian way of life.

For me, cooking is...

Fun, creative and never boring. It makes me feel alive and I love to cook for people and make them happy.

I learned to cook at...

I started cooking with my family at home, after joining the restaurant trade, I worked my way up from the bottom to Executive Chef.

A cooking secret...

Extracting the maximum flavours from the ingredients

My menus

Sardinian Menu Vege

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Affettati misti / Locally sourced cheese & vegetable platter

FIRST COURSE

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Culurgiones with tomato and basil

MAIN COURSE

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Melanzane Parmigiana (v)

DESSERT

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Seadas with corbezzolo honey

Sardinian Menu Mare

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Octopus salad

FIRST COURSE

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Seafood fregola

MAIN COURSE

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Baked dentice, potatoes, datterini tomatoes, taggiasche olives

DESSERT

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Seadas with corbezzolo honey

Sardinian Menu Terra

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Affettati misti / Locally sourced cheese & meat platter

FIRST COURSE

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Malloredus with sausage ragu and pecorino cheese

MAIN COURSE

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Roast suckling pig, corbezzolo honey roasted vegetables

DESSERT

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Seadas with corbezzolo honey

Seafood menu 3

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Raw seafood platter

FIRST COURSE

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Paccheri with shellfish ragu

MAIN COURSE

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Lobster Catalana

DESSERT

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Lemon tart

Seafood menu 2

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Red prawn Catalana

Tuna tartare with apple and strawberries

Calamari stew with artichokes and bottarga

FIRST COURSE

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White lasagne with prawns and smoked eel

MAIN COURSE

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Amberjack steak with caponata

DESSERT

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Lemon tart

Seafood menu 1

STARTER

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Sweet and sour Kataifi prawns

Octopus salad with purple potatoes, Taggiasca olives, caper berries

FIRST COURSE

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Seafood fregola

MAIN COURSE

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Pistachio encrusted tuna, saffron creamed potatoes and bottarga

DESSERT

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Lemon tart

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Chef Andrea's reviews

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12 services

Andrea was a fantastic chef - his food was exceptional, his attention to detail in preparation was impressive and overall a brilliant experience. Would recommend him to everyone!!

Andrea was a fantastic chef and provided an exceptional service. His attention to detail and knowledge of local products and dishes was wonderful. I would recommend him to anyone and would happily have him back ASAP.

Andrea is a fantastic chef. Highly recommended!

Andrea Cornaccio is an exceptional Sardinian chef. He produced 3 dinners for us, shopping for the best local ingredients and delivering one feast after another. No dishes were repeated and the entire spectrum of Sardinian cuisine was covered. Carefully conferring with us in excellent English, he made, among many other dishes: zucchini flowers stuffed with ricotta and anchovies, a specialty Sardinian pasta with potato and mint, local small red shrimp risotto, tender and perfectly grilled tuna and swordfish, a citrus and fennel salad, and indescribably delicious tiramisu. These are only a few of his offerings, but know that he was respectful of all dietary requests by the ten guests. His were the best meals we had on the island, I cannot recommend him highly enough.

Chef Andrea Cornacchia delivered an excellent culinary experience to us and our 14 guests at our villa in Porto Cervo. He was punctual, extremely helpful and well organised from helping us in choosing the right menu for the occasion, a friendly buffet style dinner, and also went above and beyond in helping us with selecting wine, making dessert, providing wine glasses and even beautiful linen napkins. Menu was fish based, very fresh and tasty, and using mostly local Sardinian recipes which all the guests loved. The "Pentolo" was the star of the evening, a self standing big pan where Andrea coocked "live" a special fish and pasta dish in front of all of us. After dinner everything was left spotless and tidy. Truly a 5 Star experience from beginning to end. Bravo Andrea!