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 4: growth, new horizons, and good old Milano
On today's episode of the Milano Files, Milan-based food writer and food tour guide Jaclyn DeGiorgio continues her conversation with Edoardo Nono, the owner of Rita, an epic cocktail bar in Milan's Navigli district, and its sister establishment Rita's Tiki Room. Follow Rita on Instagram here and Rita's Tiki Room here.
- "Ofelè fa el to mesté" is Milanese dialect for "pastry chef (or cookie maker) do your job" - more about the phrase here
- Offelle are a type of cookie typical of the Pavia region in south Lombardy
- Daniele Dalla Pola was the owner of Nu Lounge in Bologna and Esotico Miami, which is now closed
- The cocktail he describes at Rita's Tiki Bar is Jasper Jamaican
- The hand gestures we're discussing are the finger purse and the wagging prayer clasp.
- Panino Giusto is the name of the paninoteca group that Edoardo has created cocktails for.
- Edoardo's Liquor is a ginger falernum called Mr. Three & Bros.
Edoardo's picks for what to do in Milan"
- The Leonardo da Vinci at the Sforza Castle is called La Sala delle Asse, but at the moment, it's closed for restoration.
- Palazzo Reale
- Fondazione Prada
Restaurants:
Cover photo: Jasper Jamaican cocktail from Rita's Tiki Room, photo: Gaia Menchicchi
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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