Alexandre Mazzia

Chef at AM*** (Marseille, France)

Born in the Republic of Congo, where he lived to the age of 14, he was not destined to become a great chef. A committed man bursting with vitality, for a long time he lived out his two passions: professional basketball and cooking.

Drawn in to signature cuisine, he trained with grand masters such as cakemaker Pierre Hermé, Alain Passard, Michel Bras and Martin Berasategui, but most of all Pierre Gagnaire and Santi Santamaría, who taught him his affinity with the taste of the land. In 2010 he moved to the “Le Ventre de l’Architecte” restaurant at Hôtel Le Corbusier in Marseilles.

In the spring of 2014 he opened AM by Alexandre Mazzia*** in Marseilles, where he offers some extremely creative cuisine in a combination with the many spices he encountered in his early years in Congo. In 2018 he also opened Pointe Noire (the name of his home town), a restaurant in Aix-en-Provence, as a combination of a bistrot, wine bar and tapas bar, which became Niro in July 2020, and also Mess, a floating restaurant on the lightship Le Razzl, in L'Estaque.