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In July our cooking school reopens – Italian Cuisine

In July our cooking school reopens


Starting in July, the cooking classes are resumed in our office in Milan in complete safety. The great classics and many news for the summer are on the calendar.

We are happy to announce the reopening ours cooking school from the month of July. After careful technical evaluations, aimed at ensuring the maximum safety of users and staff, the first courses will be held in our classrooms in the coming weeks. Milan.

In order to enforce the security measures provided by the authorities and still guarantee the best possible learning experience, we have equipped our spacious classrooms to contain fewer participants: each will have a single workstation, equipped with all the necessary equipment.
Furthermore, small changes have been made to the teaching plans, so that carrying out the lesson at the station still allows you to learn the techniques and personally test the individual recipes.

You can discover the next courses available by clicking directly here. In addition to great classics, such as fish main courses, fresh pasta and pizzas, focaccias and savory pies, you can find many Announcements think for summer, such as Aperitif with friends, Crustaceans and Paella & Co. There is no shortage of single-theme pastry lessons: the dates of the Torte da credenza course and the new Pasticceria mignon are online.

We have also defined a new calendar for the courses initiated and not yet finished, which we will share with the participants in the coming days, so as to evaluate availability and allow the correct conclusion of the courses.

There validity of Gift Vouchers not yet used will come prolonged until the 31/12/2020. To extend its validity, we ask you to send an email to the secretarial address scuola@gordon-ramsay-recipe.com. We will assist you in the operation.

EV-VIVA! Viviana Varese's restaurant reopens – Italian Cuisine

EV-VIVA! Viviana Varese's restaurant reopens


The summer of Milan (and beyond) returns to cheer the cuisine of the volcanic cook, birth bell, Milanese by adoption, cosmopolitan in spirit

Never stop

When it is said that moments of difficulty can often be the occasion for unexpected development, it can be taken Viviana Varese as an example: not only did she not get intimidated by the lockdown and the pandemic, but she transformed this extraordinary historical moment into an opportunity for growth.

After the initiatives of Delivery of which we speak in our June issue (the family packages "from up to up" full of the delights of its artisan suppliers), on June 5 another idea arrives. Is called Long live the Terrace on the Lake and it is a temporary restaurant that the cook calls a "contemporary tavern": it is located in Manerba del Garda and embodies one of the ideals that make up Viviana's "ethical" manifesto, the Family. In fact, he was born with the support of his sister Antonella Varese and the chef Fabio Mazzolini that in recent years with the local Dalie and Fagioli had contributed to making this place magical in the province of Brescia. From 5 June you can take fantastic aperitifs overlooking the lake, accompanying them with small Venetian cicchetti, or dine with dishes with names that make you dream and / or smile like "Once upon a time", "Did you eat grandma?" "… you tell your sister!"

And in Milan …

After the opening of the terrace, it touches the beating heart of Milan, Piazza XXV Aprile. Simultaneously with the reopening of Viva, on June 18, Viviana launches Live in the square, a new experience for the Milanese who can enjoy a starry aperitif in complete safety, outdoors (25 euros), followed – if they wish – by a dinner with tasting menu (70 euros). Italian bubbles, Gin, raw fish, oysters and signature cocktails in full compliance with the safety distances and with menus that can be consulted via QR code.

Who is more traditionalist, will be able to taste the tasting menus sitting at the restaurant tables on the second floor of Eataly Emerald, overlooking the same square, positioned 3 meters from each other. The historical dishes of the cook are the protagonists of the two proposals "History is alive!" (90 euros) and "Re-viva-l" (120 euros).

Info: vivavivianavarese.it
Viva La Terrazza tel. 3404082610
Viva tel. 0249497340 – WhatsApp 3400812364

The first starred restaurant in Milan reopens (and works) – Italian Cuisine


Alchemy is a neighborhood restaurant and does everything as before, or almost. No change of course, cuisine or prices – but for other places it won't be that easy, and that's why

Thursday 21 May, 4.00 pm a post on social networks announces the reopening of L’Alchimia, the first starred restaurant in Milan to raise the cler after two months of stop. Without warning, the calls and the first 10 reservations arrive, 16 for Friday, 20 for Saturday. They are already full booking given the new regulations that require a distance between the tables and between diners of at least one meter. If there had been Berlusconi he would have said «Are we in crisis? Restaurants are full!. But this is not 2011 and this is not a restaurant like any other.

Alchemy: few changes, little nightlife

The atmosphere is that of the first day of school, of an inauguration, there is joy and a little nervousness. But they have studied the specifications, made the simulations, put on the masks and are ready for this "new normality" in terms of hygiene and sanitation in which some gestures and some cleaning products need to be changed; but that in the end scares much less than the grave silence that reigns along the road. Semi-city center, affluent residential area, between Piazza Tricolore and Piazza Cinque Giornate; a 10 minute walk from the Duomo, after 20 a fly does not fly so much that there seems to be a curfew or, to put it differently, still the lockdown. People are still afraid, they have become used to being at home, you don't know: but nothing but nightlife.
Apart from the disinfectant at the entrance and the staff in masks, a careful eye is needed to find the differences with the usual room. The restaurant is elegant, but not in plaster and therefore they just removed a table and made the round ones for 4 only for two people. Half of the place settings are canceled "But I start to worry when I have a queue outside," explains Alberto Tasinato, patron and young master with an enviable curriculum behind him made of awards and experiences in 5-star hotels and 2-star restaurants. Tasinato is a star of the room, a service maniac and an incurable optimist. This is his first solo experience as an entrepreneur and, together with his team of loyalists, he has obviously thought of everything. As he had done before, two years ago to build the venue: two hours later, the queue is already written on the book of reservations and they are already planning to do the double shift on the first Saturday of opening. But Berlusconi wouldn't be right anyway and that's why.

Delivery on foot: a neighborhood place

No secret, Alchimia will also be a starred restaurant (just earned in 2019), but it is a neighborhood restaurant. He took the place of the Gaboardi Pogliani grocery store and reinterpreted its spirit: excellent food and excellent wine not only for special occasions, but to be able to experience the place, which offers bars and restaurants together, in everyday life. “The clientele – says Tasinato – we built it the old way. Wandering around the neighborhood and leaving a welcome babà with a note to the residents. The babà was good, they arrived. " Of course guerrilla marketing, thanked them concierges. "We started with the home delivery, Casalchimia, and we found ourselves making deliveries on foot."
The kitchen is signed by chef Giuseppe Postorino and has a clear mission: to be good, understandable, affordable for all palates. Looking at the menu, you are not embarrassed not to know what to choose, because nothing convinces or is unfamiliar, no oddities made just to amaze, circus presentations, invaluable flavors, but cutlet, an excellent braised veal cheek with mashed ratte potatoes, a wonderful Risotto Milano-Langhe (yellow, whipped to perfection, with tartare and hazelnuts), served in combination with a saffron and hazelnut vermouth. It is eaten à la carte and with € 50, there is a new one menu +39 designed for the restart at 39 € consisting of 4 courses. You can spend € 25 for a bottle of wine, or hundreds, depending on your tastes and possibilities.

New horizons, narrow

Alchemy had no ambition to become a 3 Michelin star destination restaurant, of those who "are worth the trip" and who become destinations of food and wine tourism. It does not live on tourists, it does not live on whipped gourmets who eat raw pigeon with bitter sauces or molecular scallops sponges. It was a restaurant that looked to Milan, to Italy, which was making a name for itself thanks to the star, but above all to be a "good restaurant where you feel good", in short: it is the creative experiment of a chef; it is no coincidence that the patron is someone who has started out as a waiter and is always in contact with people.

For the big restaurants of the global fine dining scene, the market was instead a tiny niche of fans around the world, who are now unable to travel. The horizons of a globalization of customers, rather than the kitchen, have now narrowed to those of fifty years ago, and at least for months they will remain these. Those who for years had only looked elsewhere, far away, and ignored the poor and uninspiring neighbors, today find themselves having to regain them. And even the few people covered by social distancing will be more than available. The Noma in Copenhagen, a symbol of this type of venue, understood it and reopened making hamburgers for this reason: to survive it can no longer be an “experience” for the few, but must return to do catering for the many of the surroundings , at least for now. There is a queue. It is not the end of fine dining, it is not a change of identity, but mere tactics. And to win the war (or the crisis), they need that.

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