Chef Paul Bartolotta leads Steve Wynn’s Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare, which was nominated for the prestigious James Beard Foundation Best New Restaurant award in 2006 for its Mediterranean seafood dishes. Just 24 when he was named chef de cuisine at the esteemed Ristorante San Domenico in Italy, Bartolotta expanded his culinary horizons in France, training at Moulin de Mougins, Paul Bocuse, Troisgros and Taillevent. Bartolotta opened San Domenico’s lauded New York outpost and spent nine years running the stoves at Chicago’s Spiaggia. He won the 1994 James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Midwest award, and was the recipient of the Insegna del Ristorante Italiano del Mondo in 1997.