03-09-2014
The complete Mulino a Vino team: Davide Scabin designed a special menu to match the wine list for the new restaurant in New York, run by entrepreneur Paolo Meregalli, who’s already the owner of the homonymous wine bar in Monza. The opening is coming up, but thanks to a dinner dedicated to “friends and family” we can anticipate the details and the dishes in the soon to be born restaurant in the Big Apple
When a new restaurant opens in the Big Apple, there are always lots of expectations: first people look up in blogs and specialised magazines, then they try to book a table as soon as possible, in order to tell their friends about this new experience. Besides, when as in this case it is a great chef that arrives in town for the first time, the curiosity is even bigger. Ever since the first edition of Identità New York, in 2010, Davide Scabin had begun to dream about creating something special in Manhattan. Four years later, thanks to the meeting with Paolo Meregalli and Edoardo Marchiorello, the dream has come true and is now called Mulino a Vino. It was a great luck to be present on the first evening of the so-called “friends & family” classic pre-opening event, when friends from near and far book and dine at the restaurant as if it were already open, and then can leave their – positive or negative – comments both on food and service, so that the staff in the kitchen and in the dining room can have the time to fine-tune their work, before the official opening.
At work, studying the new menu
Once you go down the stairs that lead to the entrance, on the right there’s the main room, with a few, perfectly lighted, tables, where on top of eating you can watch the team at work in the kitchen. Indeed, even though the kitchen is separated from the rest of the restaurant, the final dishing-out step will always be made in view, and being able to watch Davide Scabin (or the other people in charge of the kitchen, since the chef will not be often in New York) giving the final touch to the dish you will then eat, is no small thing. Continuing down the corridor that runs beside the kitchen, you can access two rooms dedicated to private dinners and relax.
Here’s a preview of the first menu of the new restaurant
Mulino a Vino’s sign, with the typical staircase leading to the entrance
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