NYC’s famed Four Seasons restaurant gets new chef _ an Italian culinary star

NYC’s famed Four Seasons restaurant gets new chef

NEW YORK — New York City’s famed Four Seasons restaurant, which invented the “power lunch,” has a new executive chef.

The 50-year-old Manhattan establishment announced Thursday that it hired Fabio Trabocchi (trah-BOH’-kee), an Italian who is already a star of international kitchens.

Trabocchi was most recently the executive chef at New York’s Fiamma. Before that, he worked in Washington, D.C. He won a James Beard Foundation award for best Mid-Atlantic chef in 2006, shortly after arriving in the United States.

Trabocchi will start stirring the pots at The Four Seasons next week. His new menus will debut later in the fall.

The restaurant lost its longtime chef, Christian Albin, to cancer last June.