i. Biography
Davide Laudato is chef of Pythouse Kitchen Garden in Tisbury, United Kingdom, the latest point in a route that starts in Naples and runs through Copenhagen kitchens, a 2023–2024 founding project, and a return to southern Italian cooking. His work now moves between open-fire garden lunches and regional Neapolitan interpretation, with produce, smoke, and flavour structure carrying the story forward.
Beginnings
Born in Naples, Italy, Laudato trained at cooking school, Leonardo da Vinci. The Italian references are not incidental decoration; they are named, regional, and tied to a place he comes from.
The Rise
Before Tisbury, the route ran through a cluster of named kitchens. He was chef at Relæ, Spisehuset, and BÆST, all in Copenhagen, Denmark, and also cooked at Frantzén. He was head chef at Mirabelle restaurant. From 2023 to 2024, he founded Topicàl in Copenhagen, where the cooking focused on sustainability and innovative cuisine inspired by his Italian roots. In 2024, he was chef at Paesàno in Copenhagen. The restaurant received a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand, a recognition attached to a menu shaped by regional dishes rather than loosened from them. Across those turns, the arc stays unusually legible: Naples supplies the origin; Copenhagen supplies the sequence of kitchens and projects; Tisbury gives the work its garden, fire, and fixed-price rhythm.
Today
At the Tisbury restaurant, Laudato runs a fixed-price lunch built around open-fire cooking and produce largely grown on site or sourced from nearby farms. The menu is organized around what is grown at the restaurant and what can be brought in from the surrounding farms, so the cooking begins with supply rather than spectacle. June dishes showed the register clearly: miso-braised hispi cabbage with wet garlic; slow-cooked tomatoes with pickled rose petals and herb oil; and roasted beets with smoked cream, fig-leaf vinegar, and puffed quinoa. Those plates sit far from the southern Italian poor man's food he pursues in Copenhagen, yet they share a discipline: defined ingredients, clear structure, and a refusal to blur flavour for effect. The current address may be rural Wiltshire, but the journey to it runs through Naples, the Copenhagen restaurant scene, and a set of kitchens where sustainability, regional memory, and open fire have each had their turn.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
Asked of Davide
Where did Davide Laudato begin their career?
Davide Laudato began from Naples, Italy, and trained at cooking school, Leonardo da Vinci.
What roles has Davide Laudato held?
He has been head chef at Mirabelle restaurant, chef at Relæ, Spisehuset, BÆST, Frantzén and Paesàno, founder of Topicàl, and head chef/restaurateur at Paesàno cph.
What is Davide Laudato doing now?
He is chef of Pythouse Kitchen Garden in Tisbury, United Kingdom, and head chef/restaurateur at Paesàno cph in Copenhagen, Denmark.
