The minute-by-minute account of the day.
12.19
NEW TRHEE STARS (1)
There’s a new restaurant with three stars in Italy: Mauro Uliassi from Uliassi in Senigallia (Ancona) climbs on the stage. "I’m very excited", says the cook from the Marche, who’s lost for words. It’s the 10th the prize sar (Gualtiero Marchesi in Milan and Erbusco, Sorriso in Soriso, Don Alfonso in Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi and Antica Osteria del Ponte in Cassinetta di Lugagnano).
12.18
All the nine 3-starred restaurants appear on the stage.
12.16
NO NEW TWO-STARS
11.54
THE NEW ONE-STARS (29)
Spazio 7, Torino. Alessandro Mecca
Carignano, Torino. Marco Miglioli
Locanda del Sant’Uffizio in Cioccaro di Penango (Asti), Enrico Bartolini with Gabriele Boffa
Cannavacciuolo Bistrot Novara, Antonio Cannavacciuolo with Vincenzo Manicone
Cannavacciuolo Bistrot Torino, Torino, Antonio Cannavacciuolo with Nicola Somma
Materia, Cernobbio (Como). Davide Caranchini
Sedicesimo Secolo, Orzinuovi (Brescia). Simone Breda
Degusto Cuisine, San Bonifacio (Verona). Matteo Grandi
12 Apostoli, Verona. Mauro Buffo
Stube Hermitage, Madonna di Campiglio (Trento). Giovanni D'Alitta
In Viaggio, Bolzano, Claudio Melis
Astra, Collepietra (Bolzano). Gregor Eschgfaeller
Harry's Piccolo. Trieste. Alessandro Buffa
La Tenda Rossa, Cerbaia (Florence). Maria Probst e Cristian Santandrea
Al 43. San Gimignano (Siena). Maurizio Bardotti
Giglio. Lucca. Stefano Terigi, Lorenzo Stefanini e Benedetto Rullo
Abocar Due Cucine. Rimini. Mariano Guardianelli
Casa Iozzia, Vitorchiano (Viterbo). Lorenzo Iozzia
Danilo Ciavattini, Viterbo. Danilo Ciavattini
Moma, Rome. Andrea Pasqualucci
Caracol, Bacoli (Naples). Angelo Carannante
Locanda Severino, Caggiano (Salerno). Giuseppe Misuriello
I Due Camini di Borgo Egnazia, Fasano (Brindisi), Domingo Schingaro and Andrea Ribaldone
Bros in Lecce. Floriano Pellegrino and Isabella Potì
Vitantonio Lombardo, Matera. Vitantonio Lombardo
Qafiz in Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte, Reggio Calabria. Nino Rossi
St George by Heinz Beck in Taormina (Messina). Giovanni Solofra
Sapio, Catania. Alessandro Ingiulla
Confusion Lounge in Arzachena (Olbia-Tempio). Chef Italo Bassi
11.53
The lost stars.
To the above list, one should also add
Principe Cerami from Taormina, with chef
Massimo Mantarro, moving from two to one Michelin star.
11.49
The Special Woman award will be announced on March 4th 2019. We’re reaching the climax of the ceremony.
Petrosino, Young chef of the year
11.46
Young chef of the year.
Emanuele Petrosino, from Campania, at work at
I Portici in Bologna.
11.42
Quality over time.
La Bottega del 30 Hélène Stoquelet from Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena).
Barbara Manoni from Casa Perbellini, awarded for the Dining room service
11.38
Dining room service:
Casa Perbellini in Verona. The award goes to dining room manager
Barbara Manoni.
11.34
Time for the special awards. The Passion for Wine Award goes to a Bib Gourmand restaurant: Locanda Devetak in San Michele del Carso (Gorizia).
11.29
Do: "The 2019 Michelin Guide app will be available for download as of 2 pm; the printed guide will be in the bookstores as of Monday 19th November".
11.25
The real ceremony begins. Do mentions the myths and legends around the Red Guide’s inspectors: "The only thing that’s true is that inspectors are strictly anonymous. They don’t do so to catch the cook’s mistakes, but to be able to work serenely. They are Michelin employees like me, but while I’m just very passionate about food, they are very competent".
11.16
Time for the institutional introduction on Emilia Romagna, with the regional assessor of Tourism and Trade Andrea Corsini. In the audience, people are waiting for the new stars. Cheers from the Catering School students, sitting at the back. Norbert Niederkofler addresses them: "Work hard, guys. Our job is beautiful".
Massimo Bottura on Instagram: "Massimiliano Alajmo and I: constancy, year after year, 3 Michelin stars"
11.02
The ceremony begins, presented by
Petra Loreggian.
Marco Do, Communication Manager at
Michelin Italia, introduces the event "Hic manebimus optime", he says, where
hic stands for Parma, the location of the ceremony for the third time in a row. The mayors of Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and other regional authorities are invited on stage. "Soon, in Reggio Emili, we’re going to present a new editorial project from Michelin",
DO adds. "In 2019 we’ll present the 2020 Guide in Piacenza. In the spring of 2020 we’ll continue our regional tour with a big event in Parma".
10.55
The chefs arrive at the Auditorium Paganini, designed by Renzo Piano. In the audience, there’s Massimo Bottura, Bobo and Rossella Cerea, Giancarlo Perbellini and his second Giacomo Sacchetto, Riccardo Monco and Annie Féolde, Andrea Ribaldone, Enrico Crippa, Enrico Bartolini, Norbert Niederkofler.
10.50
Everything’s ready for the presentation of the 64th edition of the 2019 Guida Michelin Italia, the third in a row in Parma. A few numbers: in 2018 there were starred 356 restaurants: 9 with 3 stars, 41 with 2 and 306 with one. Is the total number going to increase this year? Are we going to have a 10th restaurant with 3 stars? For now, there’s only one information available on the 2019 Guide: there are 21 new Bib Gourmands in 2019, a total of 257 restaurants.
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
