In the documentary "Sapore Italiano", broadcast on Food Network, our director Maddalena Fossati Dondero and chef Emanuele Pollini go to the discovery of the best addresses to enjoy food at home abroad. In the fifth episode, the two experts return to the Ville Lumière
Paris, a city treasure trove of art, history and great gastronomy. The French capital is known as the home of haute cuisine, but the Italian restaurants of the Ville Lumière are up to this fame? They went to find out Maddalena Fossati Dondero, director of "La Cucina Italiana", and the chef Emanuele Pollini, in the new appointment with the docu-series Italian flavor.
Here then are the local tricolor visited (and approved) by the two experts in the fifth episode aired last Tuesday on Food Network.
Venice in Paris
Near the Galerie Vivienne, which with its ancient mosaics and historic libraries appears as a setting in many novels, is found Mori Venice Bar, an Italian restaurant named after its welcoming and passionate owner Massimo Mori. For 15 years the restaurant has offered a typical cuisine of north-eastern Italy in Paris, drawing however from excellent products also from other regions of the Bel Paese. In a setting with a Venetian allure that bears the signature of Philippe Starck, you can taste dishes in which the quality and freshness of the raw material used, such as the Venetian granseola, are highlighted. castraure with taleggio, balsamic and pears, le linguine clams and bottarga, mixed fry with moeche, la pearl white polenta. The meal ends with the Caterina donut, a flambéed crepe with fruit and ice cream.
The experts' votes: Authenticity 10, Style 10, Tradition 9, Innovation 7.
La Cucina Italiana's excellence badges: 4.
Pizza like you've never eaten
In Montmartre, the artists' quarter, he took office Gennaro Nasti with his art of making pizza. In his restaurant Bijou, offers a contemporary pizza made with organic flours and mixes created ad hoc by a mill. So the pizza with champagne, fassona and cherries dough is soft and delicious, the one with sausage, broccoli and provola more crispy but just as excellent. Try it to explore new horizons of pizza taste as we know it.
The experts' votes: Authenticity 10, Style 9, Tradition 10, Innovation 10.
La Cucina Italiana's excellence badges: 4.
100% Sardinian
Eat well Italian or, better, Sardinian in Paris? One can in the XII arrondissement by Tonino Simbula and his restaurant Sardinia at the Table. Since 1997 it has been offering a 100% Sardinian menu in the capital with all the imprint of home cooking: from appetizers mussels, clams, cockles and sea truffles to the saffron trofie with prawns and ginger, up to the tuna belly on carasau bread. Only the dessert allows a deviation from the Sardinian land, but for a more than valid reason: the tiramisu prepared for her friend Monica Bellucci.
The experts' votes: Authenticity 9, Style 7, Tradition 9, Innovation 6.
La Cucina Italiana's excellence badges: 3.
The out-of-bounds
To start the day well in Paris, Pain Pain in rue des Martyrs is an excellent boulangerie where you can enjoy the classic French breakfast perhaps with a Pain Au Chocolat or with a Croissant. If you want to buy the baguette for lunch know that what they do here was awarded in 2012 as the best in Paris.
Do you want ice cream? In Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île, from Berthillon, find excellent flavors or, better, “parfum”, as they are called here, of creams and sorbets made naturally: vanilla, salted caramel, pear, raspberry …
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