07-12-2015
From artistic ceramic capital to a widely inspired gastronomic centre. Martina Liverani, director of Dispensa Magazine, tells us about the protagonists and locations of Faenza's renaissance. (In the picture, a collage of the itinerating dinners organised by Distretto A)
Capital of artistic ceramics, this town with 60K inhabitants in Romagna, halfway between Bologna and Rimini on the Via Emilia, was historically invaded by international artists and students and today is setting a sort of culinary record. Indeed an extraordinary percentage of excellent culinary creative projects have established themselves: from Postrivoro to O Fiore Mio, from restaurant FM con Gusto to CinemaDivino and up till Dispensa, these are all original formats that have comfortably and satisfactorily found a place within a range of a few kilometers.
According to Enrico Vignoli, one of the founders of Postrivoro, it is indeed the fertile cultural microclimate, including an international touch plus the typical attitude of Romagna (hard workers) that inspires to open a business in Faenza. For Carlo Catani, president of CinemaDivino, today's sparkling attitude is simply the result of the seeds sewn a few years back. When, even before food became a religion, in Faenza they were already starting to invest in high quality and excellence: cultural and culinary professionals such as Valter Dal Pane (creator of projects such as Cena Itinerante and Osteria della Sghisa), or Giorgio Melandri (curator of Enologica which, before arriving in Bologna established itself over here) or Roberto Olmeti (owner at La Baita, a place with a remarkable wine collection), were the sparkle for this fire.
Fabrizio Mantovani of Fm con Gusto, one of the most interesting openings in Faenza lately
The team at Postrivoro, temporary restaurant set inside the Chiesa della Commenda with cooks coming from all over the world
Museo Carlo Zauli via della Croce, 9 +39.0546.22123
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche viale Alfredo Baccarini, 19 +39.0546.697311
Distretto A/Cena Itinerante via Sarti, 14 distretto.a@gmail.com CinemaDivino via San Silvestro, 168 +39.366.5925251
Clandestino/Arbusto viale Alfredo Baccarini, 21a +39.0546.681327
Trattoria Ca’ Murani Vicolo Sant’Antonio, 7 +39.0546.88054
O Fiore Mio viale Mura San Marco, 4/6 +39.0546.667915
La Sghisa via Giuseppe Maria Emiliani, 4 +39.0546.668354
Fm Ristorante + Fm Market corso Giuseppe Garibaldi, 23 +39.0546.24720 La Baita via Naviglio, 25c +39.0546.21584
Pasticceria Fiorentini corso Giuseppe Mazzini, 173 +39.0546.22664
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Founder and editor in chief of Dispensa Magazine, she wrote books "10 Ottimi motivi per non cominciare una dieta" (Laurana) and fiction "Manuale di Cucina Sentimentale" (Baldini&Castoldi)