The news made official by the well-known chef and TV face of Masterchef and his wife comes after a controversy with the former mayor of Novara who complained about the prolonged closure (from New Year’s Eve) of the restaurant. “A painful decision, but ‘Café & Bistrot’ is no longer in line with our present” explained Cannavacciuolo.
Now it’s official: the ‘Café & Bistrot’ in Novara closes definitively. The famous restaurant was managed by the starred chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo and his wife Cinzia Primatesta.
He was the same well-known TV face as Masterchef And Hells Kitchen to confirm it to Agi, after the controversy which had opened at a local level with the former mayor – from 2001 to 2011 – and current provincial secretary of the League, Massimo Giordano, who had criticized the prolonged closure of the restaurant after the Christmas holidays. “Whoever doesn’t love Novara, go ahead and pack your bags,” the politician thundered on social media, accusing Cannavacciuolo of neglect the “city living room” and inviting him to “water the plants that are dying”.
And the Neapolitan chef responded by underlining how stop of these months of the Café & Bistrot it had become necessary to reflect on the future of the placeat this point no longer in line with the new company objectives: “The months of closure of the restaurant – Antonino and his wife Cinzia explain to the press agency – were used to evaluate every possibility, from continuing the work carried out in recent years to evaluating profound changes. We finally decided to close the Cannavacciuolo Cafe’ & Bistrot in Novara, a piece of our history to which we will remain forever linked”.
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Cannavacciuolo arrived in Novara in October 2015. At least until the pandemic period Café & Bistrot it represented a point of reference for high quality cuisine in the Piedmontese municipality, offering dishes that combined tradition and innovation, becoming one of the most sought after places in the city. After Covid, however, things changed.
The economic difficulties combined with the need to reorganize the chef’s schedule, which continues to manage other highly successful businesses, such as Villa Crespi on Lake Orta, have led to this “painful but necessary decision“, added the chef. And he clarifies: “We realized that the Cafe’ & Bistrot it could no longer represent a space for constant growthbecause it was not in line with our present, and we thought it was right to let him go to concentrate our energies on all the other projects”.
“I thank all the customers who have supported us over these years and the entire team who has worked with passion and dedication”, concludes Cannavacciuolo.
