Irene Volpe, December 16-19, 2026

Irene Volpe was born in Rome in 1998 and studied design before she turned to cooking. She reached the podium of MasterChef Italia in 2021, then trained in professional kitchens, including Enrico Bartolini's at Mudec in Milan and Geranium in Copenhagen. Her cooking is built around plants, sustainability and emotion. She believes what we cook and put on the table says something about how we see the world. She also wrote a book on it, "Cucinare le emozioni".

Her "Irene in Tour" dinners take her to restaurants around the world, and this December she stops at Freddy.

For four evenings she cooks one fixed plant-based menu, CHF 78.