Not just international excellence on the economy and finance front: the Bocconi of Milan is also officially a candidate for the title of the most gourmet university in Italy. Despite the certainly not easy period – with Italy, the Lombardy and the academic world itself struggling with the management of the new peak of the epidemic – the famous university campus has in fact presented the evolution of its gastronomic proposal in recent weeks. On the one hand, Bocconi University has decided to open its doors to GūD Milan, the format dedicated to healthy and tasty food already extensively tested in the Lombard capital by Ugo Fava, Marco Giorgi and chef Stefano Cerveni. On the other hand, he entrusted to Compass Group Italy and to the chef Daniel Canzian the catering of the SDA Bocconi School of Management Campus.

GūD, not just a student café

First the openings of CityLife, Eustachi, Darsena, Stazione Centrale and Idroscalo; and now the new Bocconi adventure, at number 1 in via Guglielmo Röntgen. GūD Milan inaugurates its sixth venue at the Milanese university: open from Monday to Saturday, it is proposed as a meeting place and gastronomic recreation for students and teachers, in which to spend the free intervals between one lesson and another, but also as a point of reference for the external public that gravitates or works in the neighborhood. The menu proposal, designed by the chef Stefano Cerveni with the support of a nutritionist, it includes a number of stuffed buns (kneaded with organic and long leavening flours) and the special Italian Cirashi Bowl, or rice bowls (Carnaroli and Basmati) prepared mostly with raw materials typical of Italian and Mediterranean cuisine. Without forgetting extracts and healthy fruit drinks, calibrated according to the different needs of customers: from the detox juice, with apple, celery and cucumber, to the energizing one, with carrot, ginger, orange and lemon. "It is the place I always wanted when I was a boy at university, the university bar to have a healthy and nutritious breakfast, to be able to spend the lunch break with classmates, share moments of study, launch ideas and create projects , but also spend the evening doing something different, ”he comments Ugo Fava, one of the founding members of GūD Milano. All of this, of course, seasoned with a wifi network and sitting areas perfect for a chat with friends or a pre-exam review.

Daniel Canzian's cuisine arrives at the university

The official announcement was made in mid-September: Daniel Canzian was chosen by Compass Group Italia – Ad Arte Food to take care of the gastronomic proposal of the new campus of Sda Bocconi School of Management. In the architectural complex designed by the Japanese studio Sanaa we thus find three environments in which it is possible to taste the proposals developed by the chef: The Central, a café inspired by the historic Centrale del Latte in Milan, open all day – even to external visitors – with ad hoc proposals for a quick lunch break; the Literary Cafe, which at the cry of with one hand I read, with the other I eat offers SDA Bocconi students a highly versatile place to relax; is Matter, a restaurant specifically dedicated to school users, with a seasonally updated menu inspired by the great classics of Italian cuisine. "It will be a stimulating path, to enhance the made in Italy in a contemporary way, to feed the leaders of the future", commented Canzian himself. «Biodiversity and the food supply chain are the main wealth of our country, and I hope to be able to transfer their importance through my dishes, made together with the partners who have believed in my cooking philosophy for years. This is the perfect mix which, in synergy with Ad Arte, will make it possible to bring quality and innovation to the table in one of the most important Italian and international universities .