Chef Vesna Miletić- Traditional cuisine chef of the year 2019

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Vesna Miletić, Chef of the Zagreb's Tač Restaurant, has recently returned to the kitchen and devoted herself to the preparation of tasty dishes that delight her guests. Although many did not feel like she was cooking, even when she was not standing behind the stove, she always supervised her team, and every meal that came out of the kitchen had her signature. Twenty-five years ago, together with her husband Tihomir, after whose nickname their family restaurant is named, she jumped into a gastronomic adventure that turned into their life. She was young, she had a political sciences degree, but she was good in cooking.  Tač had some catering experience on the family side. This was enough! Full of enthusiasm, they opened their first restaurant in Opatija. After three years, they came to Zagreb and in 1999 launched their ResTač. From the beginning the food they served was like homemade, tasty and with a good quality. Chef Vesna always uses first class ingredients: she built her own culinary story on the excellent quality of her food. Over the years, she has gained immense experience and developed her capacity of “extracting” the best from each ingredient, that original flavor that is often missing in modern cuisines. Although Istrian and Mediterranean type of cuisine are closest to her heart, Vesna finds inspiration in the traditional flavours of all the cuisines of the wider region.  In addition to an outstanding selection of meat dishes and fish that is always fresh, her cooking style is also known for the use of vegetables. "We’ve always been very careful about what’s on our plates. Most of the foods came from Istria. Packages with wild plants have always been arriving to Zagreb as we love them so much." Vesna demonstrates her love for plants in a small garden near the restaurant where she has made her dream come true. Namely, she has a collection of seeds of old vegetable varieties, which she grows there. Her restaurant’s regular guests come to enjoy all of that, to find the genuine flavours, the harmony between the pleasure on the palate and the emotions of food memories buried in their hearts and minds a long time ago. Because of the new life she gave to the the traditional dishes chef Vesna Miletić has won the 2019 Gault&Millau Trophy Traditional Cuisine Chef of the year.

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