A full-fledged debut, with two starred restaurants, a food and wine orchestra rehearsal and three suggestive locations. This is how it will begin new season of Girogustando, the event that for 23 years has brought chefs from all over Italy together in TuscanyThe first events were presented this morning in Florence by Confesercenti and Toscana Promozione Turistica as part of Vetrina Toscana, the project of the Tuscany Region in collaboration with Unioncamere which enhances the short food and wine supply chain, the quality of artisanal production and the territory. May 6th and 21st and then again the June 6 the first three evenings in the lands of Siena. We start on Monday 6: in first day of the week that will take the Giro d’Italia from Viareggio to Rapolano Termethe first Girogustando event will relaunch the challenge and the link between Versilia and the Crete Senesi. Three days ahead of the cycling caravan, the Da Romano restaurant in Viareggio will move for an evening toOlivethe restaurant of San Giovanni di Rapolano spa: together they will prepare a four-handed menu for the public that is as new as it is valuable. Claudio Porro, Olivo’s executive chef will talk to Nicola Gronchi, who since 2020 has led the team of a restaurant with a rich history various awardsabove all Michelin star (from 1985 to today, uninterrupted). The evening will be set up in the suggestive terrace of the Terme San Giovanni, overlooking the swimming pools and the Crete Senesi. Spas call spas, for Girogustando 2024: from those of Rapolano to those of Telese, in the Benevento area. It is the habitat of Kresiosrestaurant, shop and bistro managed by Giuseppe Iannotti. A courageous, passionate, for some obsessive cuisine: with him he achieved two Michelin stars, and Tuesday 21 May it will be exceptionally in Siena. He will host it the Black Rooster, gourmet restaurant of the Casatorre dei Leoni. It will be Iannotti who will welcome him Marco Langella, similar in origin (originally from Torre del Greco) already on staff with him in Naples (the Anthill, the Luminist). The estate of Salcheto, with a view up Montepulcianowill then be the scenario of Thursday 6 June at Indigeno terrestrial cuisine with a group of atypical protagonists, innovative and sustainable. From Rome Prati will arrive Alberto Cucciniello alias Carter Oblivion. where craftsmanship embraces every phase of the manufacturing process and fire is the main protagonist. To welcome him he will find “the one with the eggs”, the Paolo Parisi already a breeder of Cinta senese and Livorno white hens fed with goat’s milk: on the terrace above the cellars, the Girogustando public will also taste a selection of drinks prepared with kitchen scraps, for a food and wine orchestra rehearsal that aims to relaunch the sound of the earth. In the lands of Siena, in Maremma and in the province of Pistoia for next autumn Girogustando will propose more than 20 experiences which on several occasions will go beyond the classic meeting between chefs. In mid-October in particular, when The Knight’s Stop (new Ambassador of Taste) will host in Val di Merse the Anchovy, more starred cuisine coming from Perugia. Or at the end of October, with the Theia thermal poolsof Chianciano spas that will welcome the cultural tavern Casa Pleiadi of Sant’Agapito (Isernia), for an event over the weekend. Not far away, the students ofArtusi Hotel Institute they will return as protagonists not only of two Cooking lessons as already in 2023, but for the first time also of a four-handed menu “teen” together with his peers Leopold of Lorraine of Grosseto.
