Vision: Stefano Catenacci, Executive Chef
"Every traveler knows that hotel restaurants and bars are usually stale and routine, if not outright sad and depressing. It often feels like the restaurant is just something that should be there — a commodity much like the restrooms or the wardrobe.
With Nobis Hotel, it will be an entirely different story. Our own family is originally restaurateurs. I'm a chef, like my father and grandfather before me. Our group has worked with top class restaurants in Stockholm for centuries, long before we got started in the hotel business some fifteen years ago. Restaurants and bars are our mother's milk, if you'll allow such an expression. The restaurants and bars in Nobis Hotel will be individual attractions in their own right. They will be the personal responsibilities of me and my brother Sandro."
Stefano Catenacci
Award-winning star chef Stefano Catenacci began working with his father Enzo in the kitchen at the age of 13, when the Catenacci family ran a restaurant in Corfu, Greece. He started at the family's restaurant Caina in Stockholm at the age of 14, and has worked as a chef in various restaurants ever since. He served his apprenticeship in the star eateries L'Albereta Di Gualtiero Marchesi near Bergamo, Italy, Carré de Feuillant and Le Divellec, Paris, France, and Comme Chez Sois, Brussels, Belgium. In 1992, Stefano took over as restaurateur at Sweden's most famous restaurant Operakällaren, awarded with one star and five red couvert symbols (1998) in the Guide Michelin. Stefano took his exam as a sommelier in 2002. Stefano Catenacci has been awarded with numerous prizes, including first prize in the Nordic Championships, silver medal in the Chef of the Year competition in Sweden, and fourth place in the European Championships (all in 1999). Operakällaren has frequently been ranked Sweden's number one restaurant in various media. Stefano Catenacci is the official Executive Chef of the Royal Court of Sweden.
