Television chef Giancarlo Caldesi chooses Caeserstone worksurfaces

Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi are successful restaurateurs and chefs, with two restaurants in London’s Marylebone and one in Bray, as well as a highly acclaimed cookery school and managing to find time to appear on TV and publish popular cookery books. With such demanding careers and a young family to look after, they moved out of London at the end of 2007 and were looking for a luxurious, high spec kitchen in which they could cook for family and friends as well as run cookery school lessons.

When choosing the work surfaces for the kitchen chef Giancarlo was in no doubt what he wanted: CaesarStone. “My kitchen will be used heavily, so CaesarStone was the natural choice for my work surfaces because it is so strong – it’s four times stronger than granite and it outperforms marble. Not only is it scratch-resistant, but it’s also stain-resistant. One of the major factors for me is that it’s non-porous – this is very important, as the surface get such heavy use, both as my family kitchen, as well as a cookery school kitchen.”