Uno dei miei maggiori crucci, a livello commerciale, è il mercato USA.
Per due motivi, il primo è di carattere generale, e riguarda la situzione dei vini della Maremma, che non è particolarmente felice per assenza quasi totale di una promozione in America (e come forse saprete, noi abbiamo tentato recentemente di cominciare a fare qualcosa: […]

Voglio solo riportare, con minimo commento, alcuni istanti di vita New Yorkese vista prevalentemente dalle cucine di 5 ristoranti famosi, e dai loro protagonisti.
Le foto sono di Maurizio Sonno. Una selezione più completa la trovate sull’album picasa.

^ Francesco Bracali nella cucina del San Domenico.

^ Francesco Bracali e Koizumi Norio.

^ Andrea Menichetti ed Irene Carletti, di […]

Del Posto
It is probably the place to go, right now in New York. It is a big, beautiful, elegant, 2 Michelin’s stars restaurant, for up to 500-600 people!
One of the first things I’ve realized, talking with the Italian chefs, is that they are amazed by the amount of people that all these New York […]

Maccioni’s family wanted to recreate the success of Le Cirque in a different restaurant, with the same touch of Sirio’s style but more informal. Marco and Mauro, Sirio’s sons, managed to succed the task by creating the Osteria del Circo.
I was there last night, quite early, and I was surprised to see how the beautiful […]

What can be said about Sirio Maccioni’s famous restaurant that it has not been said yet? We could say that all US Presidents have been here at least once, or that this is Andrea Bocelli’s favorite restaurant when he’s in New York.
I just want to say that the place is fantastic. It is exactly how […]

Tony May’s San Domenico is an institution. There are new restaurants coming up proposing a different  Italian cuisine, following more modern and fresh approach, with a different design and probably sometimes more success in the short term, but San Domenico doesn’t look like it’s near to abdicate its role of main ambassador of Italian style […]

Just arrived in Manhattan. Moving 30 people all together in never easy, but all went reasonably well in the end.
We got to the Hotel (Jolly Hotel Madison Towers, which I find quite good, the largest rooms in Manhattan for the money, plus bilingual ita-eng staff) at 7,30 PM and we were already on a taxi […]

Ne da notizia Eric Asimov, wine writer del New York Times sul suo blog, The Pour. Per una cifra di $ 185 milioni, la joint venture tra la Ste. Michelle Wine Estates e la Marchesi Antinori acquisisce il controllo di una tra le più note icone del vino USA.
La Stags’ Leap divenne famosa nel 1976, quando […]