21-06-2017
Enrico Mazzaroni is back at the helm of a restaurant after the earthquake that on the 30th October forced him to close his beloved Il Tiglio in Montemonaco, in the inland of the Marche. It’s now Tiglio In Vita, Lungomare Scarfiotti 47 in Porto Recanati (Macerata), tel. +392.0397238 (photo Samuela Conti, translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso)
From the tops of the Sibillini mountains to the sea. From Montemonaco to the promenade of Porto Recanati. Il Tiglio is here. The earthquake didn’t dry its lymph which now flows in the new restaurant of chef Enrico Mazzaroni: Il Tiglio In Vita. This name is a play on words and represents months of suffering, of steps ahead and sudden relapses, of uncertainty and hope that now are made real in a restaurant with a modern design and a super view of the sea and of the Basilica di Loreto. The appearance is surprising, but the chef knows well what’s important is the substance. A substance that in the past 10 years has induced many gourmets to cover kilometres of bends in the mountains to arrive at Il Tiglio. They’d stop, with curiosity, in front of a small door that led into a culinary experience that the many people who sat at those tables now under the rubble will remember well. “I found it very hard to accept this change. I love my mountains, with their flavours and aromas. It’s my home, the place where I grew up and became a chef. Now by the sea everything is new, from raw materials to location, so beautiful and elegant sometimes I feel it can’t be possible that this is my restaurant", Enrico Mazzaroni says almost in tears. “We’ve been working for months on new dishes, in search of a contact point between the cooking at Il Tiglio and this new adventure that thrills me and scares me at the same time”.
Carrot with mussels (photo by Laura Dipietrantonio)
The blue sea in front of the restaurant (photo Laura Dipietrantonio)
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born in the Marche in 1983, she eats, writes and speaks of food full time. She’s a journalist and co-founder of web magazine Foodie.it