The Milano Files
The Milano Files champions the food, wine, beverage, and lifestyle culture of Milan - home to Italy's most electric food scene. Host Jaclyn DeGiorgio, who considers herself Milan's cheerleader-in-chief, is a food tour guide as well as a food, wine, and travel writer who's lived in the Lombard capital for over a decade. The fiercest champion for her adopted city and its surroundings you'll ever meet, Jaclyn celebrates Milan's, and most of Northern Italy's, overlooked, though no less noteworthy allure--especially on the food front.
The Milano Files
Edoardo Nono of Rita cocktail bar part 1: staying power, Italian and American bars, and the Navigli
On today's episode of the Milano Files, Milan-based food writer and food tour guide Jaclyn DeGiorgio speaks with Edoardo Nono, the owner of Rita, an epic cocktail bar in Milan's Navigli district. Follow Rita on Instagram here.
Links:
- American Bar: The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by German bartender Charles Schumann is the book that inspired Edoardo:
- Schumann's American Bar is his bar in Munich.
- Riva website
- Wikipedia page for Gilda nightclub in Rome, which closed in 2017.
Navigli restaurants mentioned:
- Al Pont de Ferr (now closed)
- Taglio (now closed)
- Rebelot (now closed)
- Osteria di Porta Cicca (now closed, Michelin-starred chef Claudio Sadler's former restaurant)
- Trattoria Ponte Rosso (still open)
- Vinoir (the newer place)
If you're visiting Milan and would like to book a food tour with Jaclyn when you're in town, send her an email: jaclyndegiorgiofoodtours@gmail.com
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