Starred restaurants are reinvented between new spaces (outdoors) and new experiences (more free!). Here are the chefs' proposals for the post lockdown reopening
How to reopen after the emergency Coronavirus? Imagining the experience at the restaurant after the lockdown was the exercise that kept all the chefs busy in these months between adjustments to the premises to respect social distancing, digital menus, masks and gloves from the kitchen to the dining room. There are those who reopened as soon as possible on May 18, those who preferred to wait a little longer. Many, however, have done so (and will do so) reinventing themselves, experimenting with new formats, testing the terrain with new formulas and even inventing an outdoor space if it did not exist before.
DaV Cantalupa, Da Vittorio's open air pop
From Vittorio, three Michelin stars in Brusaporto (Bg), designed for summer 2020 DaV Cantalupa, one open air space poolside in the residence where the restaurant is located, to satisfy the desire to be surrounded by nature after these months of imprisonment. DaV will be open until September 5 from Monday to Friday for dinner, while on Saturday and Sunday also for lunch. The proposals? They range from the classic Paccheri to Vittorio to selected grilled meat, up to pizza. And on social networks Cerea family he also showed a Berber tent, a special setting for enjoying lunches and dinners in full relaxation and with a view.
Giancarlo Perbellini Pop Up
Not being able to reopen the starred Casa Perbellini, the chef Giancarlo Perbellini thought to take advantage of the spaces and dehors of the newly born contemporary trattoria Twenty & Thirty to Verona to set up a pop up restaurant which will be open until August 30: an informal and playful proposal to freely taste signature cocktails accompanied by small tastes and then continue, if desired, with dinner. Three menu proposals with different prices and different dishes every evening. Do not miss the cooked and raw Milanese, a dish created by chef in January he was due to enter the bistros on paper from April.
Viva, the terrace on Lake Garda by Viviana Varese
From the starred restaurant on the second floor of Eatlay Smeraldo in Milan to Lake Garda. The summer of the chef Viviana Varese is Live in the square, with oysters and Franciacorta, tartare and signature cocktails proposed for the aperitif in piazza XXV aprile in Milan, but also Long live the Terrace , a contemporary tavern in Manerba del Garda where to have an aperitif (from Tuesday to Friday from 5 pm) with cicchetti with Slow Food Presidia, but also where to stop for a dinner with a view tasting the chef's historical dishes and new proposals. And Saturday and Sunday you can also have lunch. The theme of the menu? There family: the appetizer "… you tell your sister" consists of Scallops alla puttanesca with crispy crumble bread, among the first courses there are, for example, "Did you eat grandma?", or Neapolitan ziti with Genoese ragù, pecorino, marjoram and lemon fondue.
Bentoteca, wine bar and Japanese gastronomy with chef Yoji Tokuyoshi
Bentoteca it is the pop up restaurant that the chef Yoji Tokuyoshi he conceived in the newly renovated premises of his starred restaurant in via San Calocero 3 in Milan. At the stove there are always him and his brigade and the proposal is that of a wine bar (with labels of natural wines) accompanied by Japanese gastronomy reinterpreted with imagination. Until the beginning of August, you can have lunch from Wednesday to Sunday, have an aperitif and dinner from Tuesday to Sunday.
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