The Kitchen

Chef Franco Pollini

Twenty-five years in some of New York's best kitchens, and a lifetime before that cooking beside his grandmothers.

Where He Comes From

Franco was born and raised on Long Island, a second-generation American. His parents were the first: his father Italian, his mother with family roots in South America and the Caribbean.

He found the kitchen early, cooking beside his Nonna and his Nana: two grandmothers, two traditions, one stove. Years of school followed, in both science and art, and in the end both led him back to where he started.

Franco PolliniChef, Enology

Olive oil drizzled over a flatbread in the Enology kitchen

Twenty-Five Years

Kitchens He Has Cooked In

From a Daniel Boulud bistro in Manhattan to the kitchens at Yankee Stadium.

Over the last 25 years Franco has cooked in some remarkable rooms, each with its own pace and its own standard.

Four Food StudioMelville
PRIME American Kitchen & BarHuntington
Yankee StadiumThe Bronx
db bistro, for Daniel BouludManhattan
The Grand BanksTribeca

Since 2020

Building His Own

Hear it from Franco.

Since the pandemic, Franco has turned the relationships he built over those years into new projects of his own, most recently Sunset Club at Tappen Beach and Frankie's Table in Commack. Now he leads the kitchen at Enology, where every plate is built to sit beside the glass.

See His Entrées →