Marco Ambrosino Named Chef of Turin's Unforgettable
The Procida-born chef takes over Unforgettable's ten-seat counter on November 18, months after a Michelin-starred team quit over broken trust with ownership.
Marco Ambrosino becomes head chef of Unforgettable in Turin on November 18, nine months after closing his own restaurant in Naples.
The Procida-born chef takes full creative control of the restaurant's ten-seat counter, Identità Golose reported on November 5. He will write the menu, choose his kitchen team, and set the address's direction — a mandate the outlet called a turning point for the seven-year-old restaurant.
Unforgettable has gone without a settled kitchen for most of 2026. Chefs Stefano Mancinelli and Sabrina Stravato resigned on August 31, saying trust with owner Mickie Briguglio had broken down. Their departure took effect September 1, and by mid-October the restaurant and its Michelin star had both disappeared from the online Guida Michelin Italia, according to Scatti di Gusto.
A fine-dining counter with no chef for two months gets one with a point to prove.
Marco Ambrosino's road back to the stove
Marco Ambrosino, 42, trained at Noma in Copenhagen before running the Milan bistro 28 Posti for about eight years. He opened Sustanza inside Naples' ScottoJonno complex in late 2022, in a city whose pizza draws more headlines than its tasting menus, and closed the restaurant on February 28 this year.
"Torino è una città che sa ascoltare e assorbire ciò che arriva dall'esterno," he told Identità Golose — Turin, in his words, is a city that knows how to listen to and absorb what comes from outside. He called the creative freedom he has been given "an important responsibility."
A kitchen built on fire and fermentation
Marco Ambrosino's cooking leans on grilling, fermentation and acidity, built around Mediterranean ingredients he says get overlooked. He organized that approach in 2019 through Collettivo Mediterraneo, a working group of cooks, anthropologists and architects he founded. Unforgettable, built around a single open kitchen counter, first won its star in 2022 under founding chef Christian Mandura.
Turin has been courting more culinary weight of its own: Michelin Italia moved its commercial headquarters from Milan to the city earlier this year. Whether Ambrosino's kitchen earns back the star it lost is now a question for inspectors, not for the chef.
For now, the restaurant reopens with its format intact: ten stools, one pass, and no menu beyond what Marco Ambrosino decides to cook that season.
