Category: recipes of Italian cuisine

Valentine's Day: Alessandro Borghese's dessert – Italian Cuisine

The Valentino is the limited edition dessert created by the chef to celebrate love!

«Cooking is the way to communicate, my instrument of creativity.
My cuisine, inventive and generous, satisfies with taste the palates of those who love sophisticated things, but don't want to give up on tradition.
Cooking is an act of love. "
(Alessandro Borghese)

If you are looking for something really special to celebrate Valentine's Day, the answer could be a dinner at the AB – Il Lusso della Semp Semplicity restaurant. Here the chef offers The Valentino from 14 to 16 February, the perfect dessert to say I love you.

The Valentine's Day cake by Alessandro Borghese

The Valentino is a Paris Brest filled with hazelnut praline cream and glazed with a white chocolate mousse, covered with rapè chocolate and chocolate leaf on mango and calamansi coulis. French soul, refined and contemporary taste. In practice it is impossible not to fall in love with it at the first bite.

The Valentine's Day menu by Alessandro Borghese

Among the dishes on the menu, the chef recommends Shrimp cocktail wafers, followed by a Risotto with scampi cream. Those who love meat instead will love the deer walking in the autumn forest, an intense and evocative dish with venison sirloin served with porcini pie, plum tatin, marjoram sponges, pomegranate sauce and yellow turnips.

Valentine's Day gift

But the party doesn't end there. At the end of the dinner, guests of the restaurant will receive a surprise cake to take home! Who does not want to spoil the surprise stop on this line….

… curious?
The sweet surprise of Alessandro Borghese are "Pop Love", caramelized pink popcorn!

Spaghetti with turnips and gorgonzola – Italian Cuisine

Blend the turnips with a pinch of salt until creamy.

Put the turnips in a saucepan together with the butter and cook (if necessary, season with salt).
In the meantime, cook the pasta in boiling salted water, drain it al dente, then add it to the beetroot cream and mix.

Arrange the gorgonzola into chunks on the plates, then cover it with the seasoned pasta.
The turnip and gorgonzola spaghetti are ready, serve them immediately.

Massimo Bottura opens the Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills – Italian Cuisine

The tri-starred chef Massimo Bottura arrives in Los Angeles: a new opening for Gucci Osteria from Massimo Bottura Beverly Hills, on the roof of the Gucci Rodeo Drive store in Los Angeles on February 17, 2020. To welcome him in preview, a parterre of enthusiastic Oscar stars!

Like a movie star, our chef Massimo Bottura has landed in Los Angeles with its new Gucci Osteria from Massimo Bottura Beverly Hills, right on the legendary Rodeo Drive on the top floor of the boutique of the iconic fashion brand. The partnership between Gucci and Bottura continues successfully, which began in 2018 with Gucci Osteria in Florence and recently awarded a Michelin star.

Gucci Beverly Hills – Photo by Pablo Enriquez.

As the golden doors of the new location officially open on February 17th, Hollywood stars have rushed to celebrate Chef Bottura and Gucci's CEO. Marco Bizzarri, to the exclusive preview. Already in town for the Oscar night, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Saoirse Ronan, from Salma Hayek to Anjelica Houston, celebrities from the world of cinema and music welcomed the news with great enthusiasm.

A very important project that underlines the strong link with Los Angeles. Massimo Bottura and Karime López (the first Mexican chef to receive a Michelin star and the chef de cuisine of the Gucci Osteria in Florence) worked alongside the chef Mattia Agazzi for Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills. The new Gucci outpost in California allows chefs to develop and transform classic Italian recipes into an intercultural mix by mixing ingredients, techniques and flavors in each extraordinary dish.

The menu takes inspiration from travel around the world, from the passion for art, from the love of music, in a continuous creative movement without borders or barriers, fully reflecting the personality of the fashion brand as well as the culinary vision of Bottura. There is no shortage of iconic dishes on the menu such as the famous Tortellini in Parmesan cream or the legendary Emilia Burger, which will complement new original Californian-inspired proposals using organic products from local farmers' markets.

Herringbone wood floors, deluxe signed wallpaper Gucci Decor, tables in burgundy red marble and cherry-colored velvet seats inside, terrace in Italian marble mosaic with a breathtaking view and an ancient wooden pulpit as an outdoor bar: the location design also perfectly reflects the innate glamor of the Florentine brand , going to emphasize its deep-rooted relationship with the 70's Los Angeles jet set. The intertwining of culture, food and fashion completely envelops the lively and inspirational environment, confirming once again the importance of the experimental food scene of the Californian city as a place of culinary innovation.