ROME: Italian chef Carlo Cracco will be venturing to Rome for the first time in his career as he opens a restaurant that will serve breakfast to dinner at the Corinthia Rome hotel which is set to open early next year. This is also the first hotel in Italy for the Corinthia group. "Although the restaurant will be in a hotel, it will be a space that is open to everyone. And it will not be just a restaurant. We want to do the same as we did at the Galleria in Milan offering a service that starts with breakfast in the morning and ends late in the evening," Carlo Cracco said to La Repubblica. He said that he felt it was the right time to improve the quality of the offering in Rome. Carlo Cracco said he was of the view that post-COVID, there are huge opportunities for Rome restaurants. Carlo Cracco is an Italian chef famous for his flagship restaurant Ristorante Cracco in Milan in an iconic space inside the Galleria just off the Piazza Duomo. Carlo Cracco is also a very … [Read more...]
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GELINAZ! and the next frontier: No more background music in restaurants
GELINAZ! has a habit of pushing barriers when it comes to gastronomy. It has always been way ahead of the curve in pretty much all events organised over the years. At a time when four-hands dinners became more common than mosquito bites on a late summer afternoon in the Mediterranean GELINAZ! came up with the stay at home shuffle. Now, GELINAZ! is ready to launch the next frontier in the world of gastronomy and that is for what many is an afterthought in restaurants: Music. GELINAZ! curator Andrea Petrini, a food writer par excellence has often contended that while restaurants give full attention to detail from food to service, wine flights to lights, aprons to the loos, music is often completely forgotten. And that is exactly what the next series of events is expected to tackle starting with the first in a few weeks time in France. The events are called GELINAZ! NAH BGM (aka No More background Music in restaurants). A first test of a new series of GELINAZ! events … [Read more...]