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Aram Mnatsakanov (November 20, 1962, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) — is a founder of successful Italian restaurants in Russia and Europe. He is a recognized expert in the restaurant industry, and has successfully implemented his own and consulting projects.

He made his name as a presenter of the world famous TV shows ‘Hell`s Kitchen’ [2] for Russia and Ukraine and Kitchen Nightmares.

Biography
Aram Mnatsakanov was born in Baku on November 20, 1962 in an Armenian family. As a schoolboy he was brought to Leningrad where he studied at Nakhimov Naval School.

In 1980 he entered Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, the Mechanic Faculty, and studied automobile repair and operation.

In 1985-1987 he served in the Soviet army in Leningrad Military District, the Russian Supply and Transport Academy on Vasilievsky Island.

In the early 1990s he headed St. Petersburg Tennis Federation, organised the first ATP St. Petersburg Open tournament and the first matches of the Davis Cup in St. Petersburg.

In 1998 Aram Mnatsakanov headed the wine import direction in Marine Express.

Then Aram Mnatsakanov got acquainted with the restaurant market of St. Petersburg as professional, and, at the same time, with Italy: its culture, wine production and cuisine.

Aram Mnatsakanov Restaurants
In September, 2001 Aram Mnatsakanov launched the very first in Russia wine bar The Probka in the historical building in the city center of St. Petersburg.

On the wave of success of The Probka, on July 12, 2002 in the adjoining room the Il Grappolo restaurant was opened and became a major point on the St. Petersburg gastronomic map.

In 2011, journalist Joshua Hammer from The New York Times wrote:"“The Probka / Il Grappolo is a modern wine bar and restaurant offering memorable views of the Church of St. Simeon and St. Anna through its large picture windows. The wine list includes top-flight reds and whites from a dozen countries, and the menu features Italian European food. Recommended are the pizzas topped with rucola” (3.06.2011)."Among The Probka guests have been a lot of famous people: Mick Jagger, Paul Smith, Norman Foster, Sophie Marceau, Valery Gergiev, Anna Netrebko, Andrey Konchalovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Renata Litvinova, Leonid Parfenov, Yuri Bashmet, Elena Obraztsova, Miuccia Prada, Jose Karreras, Nacho Duato, Sting, Meryl Streep, John Malkovich, Sex Pistols, Baz Luhrmann, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson, many politicians, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Gerhard Schroder, Ehud Barak, Romano Prodi and Vladimir Putin.

Ryba panoramic restaurant & pizzeria, St Petersburg
Nowadays the Ryba panoramic restaurant is probably one of the highest pizzeria with wood-fired oven in the world been located on the last 7th floor of the modern shopping and business center River House near Kantemirovsky Bridge. The glass walls of the restaurant view the beautiful Vyborg Side, the Nevka River and the TV tower. Inside menu are traditional Neapolitan pizzas, and wide range of delicious Italian dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The restaurant was awarded:

in 2006 - the Award of Time Out St. Petersburg Magazine, in "The best new restaurant" category.

in 2008 - the Award of Time Out St. Petersburg Magazine, in "The best panoramic restaurant" category.

in 2013 entered the top 50 restaurants of St. Petersburg in the category "Where to eat in St. Petersburg" according to Where Magazine

Ryba na Dache, countryside restaurant, St Petersburg
This restaurant concept of the Ryba restaurant received its continuation: in 2009, in Kurortny District of St. Petersburg The Ryba na Dache country restaurant was founded by Aram Mnatsakanov. On the bank of the Sister River, the Finnish company Honka built the two-storeyed wooden house with terraces on the ground and first floors for the restaurant. The unique location on the beach of the Gulf of Finland, excellent country food, own smokery, wooden-fired oven, a various menu, a big playground, a mooring summer terrace, an own balloon launched in summer.

An ideal vacation spot for the whole family. Every day in the season, the most beautiful in St. Petersburg weddings are arranged here!

The restaurant was awarded:

2009 - the Award of Time Out St. Petersburg Magazine, the best country restaurant.

2011 – the Award of Time Out St. Petersburg Magazine, the best country restaurant.

2013 – the top 50 restaurants of St. Petersburg in ‘Where to eat’ St. Petersburg category according to Where Magazine.

2017 – the top 5 restaurants of St. Petersburg viewing water, according to Spoon Guide

2017 – the top 50 restaurants of St. Petersburg, according to Spoon Guide

2017 – the best country restaurant according to Time Out St. Petersburg

Probka restaurant, Moscow
In the summer of 2012, The Probka on 2 Tsvetnoy Boulevard [13] was opened in Moscow where a dream of Aram Mnatsakanov of an open kitchen restaurant came true, and where the team of cooks started to play the key role.

At one stroke the restaurant became a favourite place of meeting for Muscovites and guests of the capital.

The restaurant was awarded:

2012 - The best new Italian restaurant in Moscow, according to Afisha Magazine

2012 - 101 best restaurants in Moscow, according to PrimeConcept

2012 – The best restaurant in Moscow, the ‘Discovery of the Year’ category, according to MENU.RU portal

2012 - The best new restaurant in Moscow, according to Resto Rate Awards

2012 – The best new Italian restaurant, according to ELEMENTS MOSCOW EXPAT CHOICE AWARDS magazine

2013 – The best in Moscow, according to Afisha Magazine

2014 - The best in Moscow, according to Afisha Magazine

2016 - 100 best restaurants in Moscow, according to Spoon Guide

2017 – The best service, according to GQ Russia

2017 - 100 best restaurants in Moscow, according to Spoon Guide

2017 - One of the best Italian restaurants in Moscow, according to Insider Moscow

2018 – 100 best restaurants in Moscow, according to Spoon Guide

2018 – The best service, according to GQ Russia

After great success in Moscow of The Probka na Tsvetnom, Aram Mnatsakanov decided to modify The Probka in his native St. Petersburg.

Probka Restaurant, St Peterburg
In 2013 the legendary Probka moved from Belinskogo Street to an up-to-date building of Energy business center of Gazprom Neft in the very heart of St. Petersburg, on Dobrolyubov Avenue (2-4 Zoologichesky Lane).

The restaurant was awarded as follows:

2014 – the top 50 restaurants in St. Petersburg, the Where to eat St. Petersburg rating, according to Where Magazine

2014- the 4th place in the Where to eat St. Petersburg rating, according to Where Magazine

2015- the 3rd place in the Where to eat St. Petersburg rating according to Where Magazine

2016- the 3rd place in the Where to eat St. Petersburg rating, according to Where Magazine

2016 - The best pizza in St. Petersburg, according to SOBAKA.RU Magazine

2017- the top 50 restaurants in St. Petersburg, according to Spoon Guide

2018 – the 50 best restaurants in  St. Petersburg, according to Spoon Guide

Jerome restaurant,  St.Petersburg
The Jerome restaurant has changed a few concepts:

In 2010 the charismatic Jerome Lorieux offered his vision of the Russian and European cuisine at the restaurant called The Antrekot (a not French cuisine restaurant).

Then, the restaurant was renamed into The Jerome where Almaz Iskakov, the winner of the second season of the Russian Hell`s Kitchen on REN-TV channel and a graduate of the well-known Parisian cooks` school Ferrandi came to the kitchen of Jerome Lorieux.

In 2016 The Jerome restaurant changed its concept again. The friends who got acquainted five years before in collaboration at Aram Mnatsakanov's Probka restaurant, Chef Antonio Fresa and the managing director & sommelier Andrey Musikhin, together developed a new fresh concept of the restaurant.

Both the quintessence of independent experience of each of the friends and the management philosophy of Aram Mnatsakanov and his "ideal restaurant" interpretation were embodied in the new idea of the gourmet cuisine restaurant. The fresh interpretation of the traditional Italian cuisine carefully executed by the young and talented chef Antonio Fresa. Fresh and rare herbs are grown up by a hydroponic method directly at the restaurant, the list of natural and biodynamic wines.

The Jerome restaurant in its new concept became very popular and got awarded since the very first year:

2016 - The best service in Russia, according to GQ Russia

2016 – Шеф повар года - Antonio Fresa по версии журнала SOBAKA.RU

2016 - the 2nd place in the Where to eat St. Petersburg rating, according to Where Magazine

2017 – The best neo-bistro in Russia, according to GQ Russia

2017 - The best classical wine-list, according to Russian Wine Awards

MINE restaurant / WINE bar, Berlin
In January, 2017 Aram Mnatsakanov opened the MINE restaurant in Charlottenburg, Berlin. His son Mikhail Mnatsakanov managed the team of young and talented chefs Almaz Iskakov and Artem Dovlatyan.

The press and public appreciated the new restaurant in Berlin and it’s immediately become a very important place at gastronomic scene of the German capital city.

Berliner Morgepost 04.08.2016

"The Russian Jamie Oliver expands his possession to Charlottenburg. Both neighbourhood habitants and celebrities from the whole country often visit the restaurants of Aram Mnatsakanov.”

Die WELT 29.01.2017

''The MINE is not another Italian restaurant in the capital, which is stuffed, with Italian restaurants. It is, perhaps, the most cosmopolitan restaurant in the city.''

''“Instead of completely following the Italian cuisine traditions, Aram Mnatsakanov affords his own, free interpretation. Such approach is based on using the best ingredients only, and, to tell the truth, it is already very much in the Italian style.”''

''“The cuisine is well performed magnificent simplicity which you can find only in New York or London <…>; everything is cooked of only the best ingredients, extremely tasty and excellent served. Each course is simple, fresh and fine.''

tip (Zeitschrift) 14.03.2017

“The clear cuisine using the best regional products and the exiting atmosphere of Mine & Wine is a present for Berlin.”

Tagesspiegel 07.02.2017

“The fine Italian cuisine, unusual atmosphere is the entirely new Mine & Wine in Charlottenburg.”

Books
Aram Mnatsakanov published his first book  “My History, Recipes, Travels" in 2010.

In 2013, the Publishing House EKSMO released his second book with the author's favorite recipes and gastronomic tours: "Recipes of Aram Mnatsakanov. The most delicious routes of Europe"[36]. It collects personal advices from the Chef where to go and what to eat in Italy, France and Spain, and how to cook at home the best dishes of the three great gastronomical Powers.

Starting from 2013 Aram Mnatsakanov annually publishes his St. Petersburg guide "I love you, St. Petersburg ", where Aram Mnatsakanov describes his favorite places in St. Petersburg https://www.flipsnack.com/Amrestaurants/travel-guide-by-aram-mnatsakanov.html.

In 2019 he published his first small guide “I love you, Georgia” with his favorite places in Tbilisi and the country of Georgia. http://probka.org/upload/tuta_guide_a6.pdf

TV
In 2011 he hosted a TV-show "Pekelna Kukhnya" (Russian "Hell’s Kitchen") of the Ukrainian television channel "1+1". He held three seasons of the reality show and became a popular Ukrainian TV host, receiving following awards: 2011 - National Ukrainian TV-Award "Teletriumph" in a category of the "The best reality show ", 2011 - Best Ukrainian chef according to Focus magazine.

In 2012 he led the TV-show "On the knives", the Ukrainian version of the popular reality show “Kitchen Nightmares” with Gordon Ramsey. 1+1.

In 2012 and 2013 he hosted two seasons of Russian TV show "Hell’s Kitchen" on REN-TV channel. РЕН-ТВ.

In 2013 Aram Mnatsakanov together with Olga Freimut were the hosts of the TV show "War of the Worlds. Inspector vs Chef " on the Ukrainian channel "Novyi Kanal ".

In 2014 he became the host of the original TV-show "Real Kitchen" on REN-TV.

In 2019 Aram Mnatsakanov became the very first  SUPER-CHEF.

Social activity
In 2002, Aram Mnatsakanov became the honorary President of Bosco di Ciliegi in St. Petersburg and joined the founder of the company Mikhail Kusnirovich, as a partner.

In 2014 he became the Honorary torchbearer of the Olympic torch relay in St. Petersburg during the Olympic Games in Sochi.

His torch is installed in the open kitchen of the Probka restaurant in St. Petersburg.

From 2013-2016 Aram Mnatsakanov was the ambassador of the Italian mineral water of San Benedetto brand.

Since 2015, Aram Mnatsakanov is also the ambassador of the Porsche.

In 2017, Porsche launched the worldwide project Courage changes everything in support of the release of the new model Porsche Panamera. The advertising project with Aram Mnatsakanov supports the release of the new Panamera model in all major world markets.

OFFICIAL AWARDS:

 * Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight of the Order of Merit for the Italian Republic ) Since 2007 for his contribution to the development of Italian culture.
 * Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for contribution to development of the industry of the country hospitality, the National Award ‘Hospitality’ (2017).
 * International Award Laurel Leaf in the Restaurant Legend nomination (for the first time in Russia) for Il Grappolo Restaurant in 2007 (2008).
 * SNOB Magazine Award 'Made in Russia 2013' in the Gastronomy nomination.
 * GQ Russia Award 'Person of the Year in 2013', 'Restaurateur of the Year' nomination.
 * Award 'WHERE to EAT 2016' for the personal contribution to development of the restaurant culture in St. Petersburg.
 * Listed as the top 150 influential people of Russia according to GQ Magazine 2017
 * Listed as the top 150 influential people of Russia according to GQ Magazine 2017.

Personal life
Aram Mnatsakanov is married to Natalya Malinovskaya, who together with him is highly involved in the management of restaurants and consulting projects.

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg State University, Natalia for many years was engaged in marketing and PR, she was a partner in one of the first advertising agencies in Russia DA&N and managing partner of the Prime Marketing Agency in St. Petersburg. Natalia has two children.

Aram Mnatsakanov has two children from her first marriage with Elena Mnatsakanova: son, Mikhail Mnatsakanov and daughter, Lina Mnatsakanova and two grandchildren (children of Mikhail) - Alexander and Anna.