ABOUT CHEF GIULIO

Chef Giulio was born and raised on the Italian peninsula of Salento, Italy. He trained at the “Center of Culinary Arts” in Casargo, Italy and started his culinary career as an apprentice cook with the Costa Cruise line based out of Venice. Chef Giulio has been a gourmet chef for over 32 years. He later left Italy to venture along the Southern Pacific coast, from the Fiji Islands to the French side of the Caribbean. He opened a small restaurant in the Vava’u Archipelago of the kingdom of Tonga. It was here that he had the honor of cooking for members of the Tongan Royal Family, (including the Crown Prince). When he took his culinary expertise to the United States, landing in Rhode Island in 2000, he was the Executive Chef at Z Bar & grille, and later Mediterraneo in Providence. In 2015 he was the opening Executive Chef at Mare Rooftop restaurant on the East Side of Providence. In October of 2021, he found his home as an Executive Chef at Bellini’s Ristorante in Providence, where he leads all creative culinary endeavors across one of the finest menus in Rhode Island.