PHILIPPE CONTICINI spent his childhood in the kitchen of his parents' restaurant. Initiated into the world of tastes during his earliest years, he specialised in pastries, ice cream and chocolate with great operations such as Jacques Chibois's Gray d'Albion and Alain Dutournier's Trou Gascon before opening his own operation, La Table d'Anvers, where his desserts have created stirring memories. The lead chef at Petrossian, Philippe Conticini has initiated innovative concepts from New York to Tokyo and has radically modernised French pastry-making with a sharp, exceedingly precise notion of taste and texture. Since 2009, Conticini has opened 5 dream pastry shops from Paris to Japan.