Iannaco recalls how he was in Sardinia, a long time before, at Laguna Chia. Over there, a pizza chef was making gourmet pizzas, with precious toppings. The place was half empty: was it too avantgarde? This discouraged Iannaco, but he liked the idea so he kept thinking about it.

Change of scene: two years ago. Pizza gourmet had become established, in the meantime, but not in Milan. So Iannaco decided to stop the delay and start working on a third restaurant, where he would unite the tradition of the first two with this new trend.

Taverna Gourmet was born 25th July, with Vincenzo Masi working at the oven and Leonardo Giannico at the topping, the latter after 4 years at restaurant Bulgari (in the photo, left to right Giannico, Iannaco and Masi). 

«We worked a lot on the dough – they recall – We only use mother yeast, high quality flour, at least 48 hours of rising».

They serve five versions: classic, with basil centrifuge juice, whole-wheat with Petra 3 and Petra 9, with squid ink and sea weeds (for Pizza sashimi). We didn’t taste this but the others:

Margherita Gourmet (delicious: piennolo tomatoes produced by Gennaro Esposito, then buffalo milk mozzarella, parmesan, green and red basil);

Prawn and guacamole (red prawn from Mazara, avocado, red onion, chilli pepper, lemon from Amalfi and mozzarella);

Langhe (rich: sausage from Bra, black truffle and toma cheese from Piedmont);

Scampi, cheese and pepper (a nice mixture of elegance and strength: raw scampi, pecorino romano, pepper and lime zest);

Pluma di maialino iberico (the most complex and delightful: pluma de Patanegra, burrata, parmesan and apple cream).

The second and the last, as well as the Sea bass and Colonnata lardo, are signed by Roberto Di Pinto, chef at Bulgari.

An excellent experience – you can also taste more types, as in our case, thanks to the tasting menu for 30 euros. Pizzas cost between 14 and 35 euros: costly but not overly so, as they totally deserve it.

Nice location, designed by architect Silvana Barbato.

Carlo Passera
source: http://newsletter.identitagolose.it/email.php?id=555

Photos from the site La Taverna Gourmet (ed)

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