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    Chef

    Egon Heiss

    Head Chef, Gourmet Restaurant Prezioso at Castel Fragsburg

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    Chef
    Based in
    Merano, Italy
    Portrait of Egon Heiss

    i. Biography

    Egon Heiss is the chef at Gourmet Restaurant Prezioso at Castel Fragsburg in Merano, South Tyrol, where official and guide listings credit him with creating a menu built from ancestral regional recipes and ingredients from the hotel garden and nearby organic farms. He is identified by Castel Fragsburg as head chef and by the MICHELIN Guide as the chef in the kitchen at Prezioso, and industry coverage notes he was named Gault&Millau Koch des Jahres 2024 and received a Green Star in 2024.