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Bruce Hill

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Bruce Mason Hill

Bruce Hill, a San Francisco based chef started cooking when he was 18 years old in kitchens in Washington, DC and San Francisco. A self-trained chef, he has worked at many of the finest restaurants in San Francisco including Stars, Aqua, Oritalia, The Waterfront and BIX. His newest venues are Picco and Pizzeria Picco & Wine Bar.
Bruce was a sous chef at Stars with Jeremiah Tower in the mid 1980’s, Sous chef at Aqua in 1991 and then brought Oritalia to fame in 1993 with his first chef post. He was recruited to transform the Waterfront Restaurant in 1997, In 2000 Bruce joined forces with Real Restaurants, consulting at Betelnut, Buckeye Roadhouse, and Fog City Diner. He took on the executive chef /partner role at Bix in 2002. Bruce, as chef /owner opened Picco and Pizzeria Picco in 2005. Pizzeria Picco has received many accolades in the press including Michael Bauer from the San Francisco Chronicle; “Pizzeria Picco serves the best pizza in the Bay Area” and from the esteemed Mario Batali in the April 2006 Gourmet Magazine that Pizzeria Picco is “the best in the country. His Margherita pizza is so good; it’s enough to make you cry.”
All of Bruce’s 3 restaurants are named in the SF chronicle’s top 100 list. In 2007, Bruce served as culinary Ambassador representing San Francisco with a delegation celebrating the 50 year sister city relationship with Osaka, Japan Bruce lives in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco with his fiancé, Kim . When not in the kitchen he enjoys mushroom foraging in Sonoma and Mendocino