Fabio Picchi, chef and owner of the Cibrèo restaurant in Florence, died on Friday at the age of 68. His restaurant, opened in 1979 in the Sant’Ambrogio district, is considered an institution in Florence and so is also described by Michelin guide. In addition to the restaurant, over the years Picchi had opened other well-known businesses in the city, including a trattoria, a theater club (the Teatro del Sale), a Tuscan cooking school and lastly the CiBio, a grocery store inside the Sant’Ambrogio market. Picchi had also written gastronomic books and collaborated with several television broadcasts. The nation writes who had been ill for some time.
Fabio Picchi has left us. He tiptoed off. But we will never forget it.
You have given so much to Florence and we owe so much to you. I want to remember you like that, smiling and full of energy.Hi Fabio, may the earth be light to you. pic.twitter.com/nCoii5cWNY
– Dario Nardella (@DarioNardella) February 25, 2022
We will miss you so much, Fabio. But we will take your irrepressible hunger for life with us. I cry and hug Maria and your boys. Hello, column of Sant’Ambrogio, the old heart of Florence pic.twitter.com/LnnpmRbBLE
– Matteo Renzi (@matteorenzi) February 25, 2022
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