LIVORNO. From breakfast to post-disco. For when the “Big” opens next autumn, that maxi venue on the first floor of the Palazzo Grande which once housed the multiplex cinema. It will certainly be Pasticceria Gonnelli 2 that will take the place of the Dolli spaces in Piazza Grande which were emptied in recent weeks by the latest management. The signature is still that of the entrepreneur Simone Gonnelli. It throws itself into a new challenge which will also lead to 15 more jobs (in the catering sector) and which will turn on the lights again from early May, to recreate that good living room that was once Piazza Grande and that part of the centre. a city that has been forgotten and degraded for too long.
A city heart that the lord of the Labronian clubs wants to make beat again. He who has been busy for a few days giving a lasting soul back to the historic Dolli bar. «It takes courage, I realize this, but the city must be valorised, especially the centre: this new investment is obviously very closely linked to the opening in the autumn of the adjoining venue which will open at the former Grande cinema: here in Piazza Grande we replicate the quality of the Pasticceria Gonnelli in Piazza Attias and what’s more, this new space can also act as a pre-disco or post-disco”, says he who has decided to double the quality and success of the Pasticceria in Piazza Attias in those 500 square meters in the shadow of the Duomo.
From breakfast to evening
From breakfast to lunch (and therefore fixed price buffet catering) up to evening entertainment with aperitif buffet. The pastry part will be produced in the laboratory in Piazza Attias and then taken to Piazza Grande. The lights of a place that is a piece of the city’s identity are going to be turned back on: the historic doors of Dolli closed in 2019. Subsequently the opening of those doors in a new very stars and stripes look, with the Surfer Joe sign . After some time the new managers decided to leave the center to focus on their number one restaurant at Terrazza Mascagni. In recent times new faces and a new challenge, taking up the historic name of the Dolli bar. This experience also ends after a few months and now it changes again, in the name of sweetness, refreshment and entertaining music.
«Apart from quality pastry products, we think of an open ice cream shop, orders in the room via Qrcode: and always in the room I think of private events, or musical entertainment», continues Gonnelli. At the moment there is a lot of work to do to fix the place. To purchase new machinery and proceed with a nice restyling. Petrol green will be the dominant color as in Attias square. «I’m in love with this color», jokes the entrepreneur who has decided to make changes in his local geography in order to focus on new investments. «I’m already thinking about how to set up the catering – he continues – also considering the many cruise passengers who arrive right behind the venue on the buses: I would like to do a fixed price buffet menu, something like 9.90 euros and then in the evening focus on the moment aperitif with musical entertainment in the lounge, always at a fixed price”.
Disco starts in autumn
The entrepreneur invests in the former Dolli precisely because next door is his other maxi bet worth over a million euros which he carries out together with his partners Michele Bardi and Leonardo Marradini, of No more Movie, the company that owns the project.
That “Big” which was supposed to open in December 2022. Then between important and complex works, bureaucracy, papers and documentation to be updated and integrated, permits, authorizations, balances, the times slipped forward. But the new inauguration date is certain: according to Gonnelli. There has also been no shortage of controversy against this project.
«We start in autumn: the investment in the former Dolli bar is linked to this Palazzo Grande project», he continues. So no step backwards in the former multiplex cinema of Palazzo Grande: there will be a varied food area. What was the Vespucci room will become a large hall where disco evenings, concerts and conferences will be organised.
Outside the Vespucci there will be an area dedicated to catering, designed with the design of an outdoor garden.
Chefs, waitress and bartenders Here’s where to send your applications
A new shop window that lights up always brings with it many positive aspects. On the one hand, an area of the city is redeveloped, be it a street, a square, a district. On the other hand, these are investments that often lead to employment. Jobs. Hiring not always seasonal and fixed-term. And in fact the new Pasticceria Gonnelli 2 which will open in early May in Piazza Grande designed by Simone Gonnelli immediately requires around fifteen employees to be found. These are staff in the catering sector and therefore chefs, assistant cooks, dining room staff, bartenders, waiters and bar tenders. Experience or without? The entrepreneur explains the fundamental characteristics required directly: «Given the time of year and the next opening it would be better with experience: however I always say that we are a great team and we have no problems training the staff internally too, so if there ‘If you want to work in a place with these characteristics, come forward.” Curriculum and application to be sent to the email address [email protected].
