27-03-2014
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL. Mazzo’s mini-dining-room in Centocelle, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome. Born in April 2013 from an idea of Francesca Barreca and Marco Baccanelli (The Fooders), it’s making lots of noise thanks to its small dimensions: it can seat 10 people at most
On April 27th 2013, Mazzo opened in an unknown street with a misleadingly romantic name in Centocelle, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome that cannot boast any famous intellectual regulars nor great historical events. Its dining room doesn’t spread over more than 15 square metres and only has a table for 10, where people eat next to one another, even strangers, with a few shelves with second-hand products on sale, the menu written in chalk on the blackboard-walls and t the kitchen-workshop partly in view. This is the real heart of the Fooders’ – aka Francesca Barreca and Marco Baccanelli – restaurant. Their project was born in 2006, with the idea of blending their passions – food, graphics, music – in a sort of itinerating live cooking, and today they still alternate strictly-speaking cuisine with the creation of – never banal, sometimes irreverent – events and with communication services, always linked to the food sector. With them, there’s Pietro Clemente, also known as Il Turco or Sparo Manero, a rapper at work in the kitchen. However, this is not the nth case of “creative people in times of recession” who decide to work with food: Marco and Francesca are real cooks, they have studied, worked and sweated in the kitchen and one only needs to taste their offer to understand that there’s little blabber.
Mississippi Mud Pie
Mazzo is in via delle Rose 54, Rome. You'd better book dialing +39.06.64962847
MAZZO TRIO. Pietro Clemente, Francesca Barreca and Marco Baccanelli
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a journalist born in Naples now living in Rome, she tries to make her three passions meet: eating, travelling and writing