"Italian cuisine abroad is no longer seasoned with melancholy, but is instead courage in doing business", said Lorenzo Ruggeri, in presenting the online guide "Top Italian Restaurants" by Gambero Rosso, which classifies and reviews five hundred quality Italian cuisine addresses in thirty-five countries around the world. With the theme "Italian cuisine that opens up to the world", five hundred restaurant entrepreneurs are awarded, attentive to economic sustainability, the authenticity of raw materials, but also to social issues and the possibilities for personal redemption that the sector offers. "We bring together the vanguard of Italian excellence and, by checking that the wines and oils used are made in Italy, we do not make passport distinctions. - explains the president of Gambero Rosso, Paolo Cuccia - Even a Japanese or Argentine chef can express Italianness at the table. The real challenge is to export quality products and know how to enhance them, with the courage and resourcefulness of consolidated professionals and young chefs". Of the five hundred awarded chefs and pizza chefs, "80% come from the South," Ruggeri said, "and most are Neapolitan. The model of an Italian restaurant is established, with well-extracted coffee for breakfast, a Spritz for aperitifs and a multi-course dinner. They offer a cuisine that tastes like a return, because in Oslo Roman-style tripe is popular, in Hong Kong a must is a pasta dish born in the Spanish Quarter, scarpariello." Among the awardees is a great name in national cuisine: Alfonso Iaccarino. Special awards to Michele Farnesi, chef and owner of Dilia in Paris, awarded as Chef of the Year, and Federico Zanellato, Executive Chef of LuMi in Sydney, Restaurant of the Year. The Pizzeria of the Year is in New York: Song' E Napoli by Ciro Iovine. The Wine List of the Year rewards the work of Rolly Pavia, a Sanremo native who, with six restaurants in Mexico City and Acapulco, boasts a thrilling Italian wine collection, with over forty thousand wine labels and sells at least seven thousand bottles of Italian wine per month. The Innovation/Tradition Award recognizes Luigia, the project by Enrico Coppola and Luigi Guarnaccia, capable of replicating high-quality pizzerias, in Geneva as in Dubai, focusing on winning entrepreneurial formulas.
Article published on 30 October 2018 - 08:42
