MODENA: Franceschetta 58, the bistro of Osteria Francescana led by chef Francesco Vincenzi has announced it will be going on tour in Florence, Rome and Torino. The bistro, opened by Massimo Bottura in his home town Modena to complement his three Michelin star Osteria Francescana will welcome Italian chef Marco Ambrosino on 28 September in Modena. Marco Ambrosino was the first chef of the Milan restaurant that has been the talk of the town 28 Posti before leaving to return back to the south of Italy earlier this year. Ambrosino will be bringing his flair and Nordic approach to Mediterranean cuisine with a four hands dinner at Franceschetta. On 25 October, Franceschetta 58 will host Locale, a restaurant and bar in Florence that figures in the 51st place of the World's 50 Best Bars 2021. The chef Simone Caponnetto and barman Matteo Di Ienno will host chef Vicenzi in Florence on 3 November for a return dinner. The chef of Franceschetta and his team will head to Rome as hosts … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2022
Jordy Navarra to cook at L.E.S.S. Eatery next week for second Chef’s Invitation
BRUGES: When Gert de Mangeleer together with Ruige Vermeire, the head chef of L.E.S.S. Eatery invited Hiroyasu Kawate of Florilege and Susumu Shimizu of Anis from Tokyo for the first event called Chef’s Invitation little did they know that it would take more than two and a half years for the next event to take place. The first such event was held at L.E.S.S. Eatery in Bruges on Wednesday 29 and January 30, 2020. A few weeks later, the world would nearly come to a standstill as the start of the COVID-19 pandemic brought travel to a halt. Now, over two and a half years later, Gert de Mangeleer and Ruige Vermeire are back with a second edition of Chef’s Invitation, a concept created by the Hertog Jan Restaurant Group. This time it is the turn of Jordy Navarra, a good friend of head chef Gert de Mangeleer who was scheduled to cook in May 2020 in Bruges. Next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday 21 and 22 September, the oriental-inspired cuisine of LESS Eatery will meet the refined … [Read more...]
Sebath Capela is in his ‘Elements’ at Indrani Lodge
Sebath Capela, one of Belgium’s promising young chefs is finally ready to showcase his new playground. At Elements, a new restaurant within Indrani Lodge a few kilometres away from the landmark lion monument in Waterloo, Belgium he is improvising with nature and all its elements to serve a very interesting menu focused on vegetables grown on the property and protein that comes from small farms close to the restaurant. Elements is part of a project created by Philippe and Jessica Brawermann, a couple who bought a farm in the Belgian countryside not far from Brussels and turned it into their home. Today, they’ve invested in a wellness hotel with 12 rooms, a 36-seat restaurant, a 20 seat lobby bar and a yoga studio among others. Their vision had been that of going past the buzzwords of sustainability and really focusing on making the property as ecological as possible. The lodge, restaurant as well as 39 neighbours benefit from a joint heating system using biomass and geothermic … [Read more...]
Italy and United States share top spot for pizzeria of the year but pizza maker of the year goes to Peppe Cutraro of Peppe Pizzeria in Paris
Peppe Cutraro of Peppe Pizzeria in Paris was awarded with the pizza maker of the year award. Meanwhile Francesco Martucci's I Masanielli in Caserta and Anthony Mangieri's Una Pizza Napoletana in New York have tied for the best pizzeria in the world. The results were unveiled by the 50 Top Pizza list released at the Palazzo Reale in Naples. Third place went to Giuseppe Cutraro's Peppe Pizzeria in Paris. This was the first time that a 50 Top Pizza World list was compiled. 50 Kalo and 10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria in Naples captured fourth and fifth place, sixth went to I Tigli in San Bonifacio, seventh to to Francesco and Salvatore Salvo pizzeria in Naples, eight to Seu Pizza Illuminati in Rome, ninth to La Notizia 94 in Naples and Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco took the 10th position. Forty Italian pizzerias, 25 from Europe, 15 from the United States, 15 from Asia-Pacific, 4 in South America and 1 in Africa complete the 2022 classification for the top 100 … [Read more...]
Racines introduces a popular pasta dish for Friday lunch
BRUSSELS: Racines, a restaurant that has established itself as one of the best Italian restaurants in Brussels, if not Belgium is introducing a new concept for Friday lunch. Since last Friday, friends Ugo Frederico and Francesco Cury have introduced what they call 'la pasta popolare del venerdi' or a traditional and popular pasta that they will serve each Friday. The first pasta dish last week was Rigatoni alla Gricia, a popular dish from Roman cuisine which is made with rigatoni, pecorino romano, black pepper and guanciale. They will be serving one pasta dish each week together with a selection of their favourite antipasti and a dessert. This Friday's pasta dish will be Rigatoni alla carbonara, another Roman classic. But they will be revisiting some of the most traditional and popular dishes that have made Italian cuisine what it is around the world. Among the other 'popular' pasta dishes that they will be serving in the coming weeks are the Amatriciana and the Puttanesca … [Read more...]