Panini, Italy's top dessert restaurant opens on the Bund 18

Panini's Chinese restaurant Sibilla Boutique Café opened in Italy on the 18th on the Bund. Its owner Angelo Moratti is still the owner of Armani, the owner of the Milan basketball team and the owner of Italy's oldest castle, Chigonola. Its head chef, Eric Perez, is one of the top ten West Point divisions in the world. He used to be Clinton’s Queen’s West Point Chef.

The name of Angelo Moratti is very interesting: the owner of the Milan basketball team, the owner of De Santis Panini, the niece of Giorgio Armani, the oldest castle in Italy The master of Cigognola sounds both realistic and fairytale.

De Santtis Panini's Chinese shop, Sibilla Boutique Café, opened on the Bund on the 18th. The main food in the shop is of course Panini, the most traditional Italian cuisine.

Angelo has been working for 25 years at De Santtis Panini. His branches are all over Italy and London is also quite a few. This traditional food, often seen in bars and coffee shops, Panini was once popular in Italy and even in Europe as a whole, and De Santitis Panini was recognized as the best Italian Panini did.

Family of Italian family

Angelo Moratti, with a smiling face of Mediterranean sunshine, was interviewed at the new store on the Bund No. 18. Sitting between food and wine, he showed no loose or lazy expression. Looking closer, he found him dressed in a formal Armani suit. “Before I met Giorgio Armani, I liked his design. His clothes are quite comfortable, tasteful and elegant.” ———Obviously, Angelo is not only a relative of Giorgio Armani, but also his super Fans.

Speaking of Angelo Moratti is the family of Italian family: In the early 1950s, Angelo's grandfather successfully founded the oil, energy and power industries, and has become a prestigious family business. In the early 1960s, the Moratti family also bought the Milan football team with a special eye and invested a lot of thought, turning it into a world-class team and even one of the most powerful football teams in the world. Angelo Moratti’s mother is Italian Minister of Education, and his wife is the prostitute of Italian famous fashion designer George Armani. A year ago, with the support of Giorgio Armani, Angelo also bought a team - the Milan basketball team.

“What is your interest in the family's industry? Why is it so keen on food?” Angelo’s answer to this question is: “I have a responsibility to do well in the family’s traditional industries. In fact, our main business is In the energy industry, we have power plants, so we have a good understanding of the environment and pollution. We have a company in Hangzhou that specializes in pollution monitoring equipment. They are installed in factories and cities to test the level of environmental pollution. We build this machine It has been for many years. This is a family business in China."

However, for Angelo, what is important is not only the family business that he inherited from his grandfather, but his own interest in food and wine is truly "big day." When it comes to gastronomy and wine, Angelo is very energetic and his eyes glow with a free blue-gray light: "All Italians love food and wine. They are a manifestation of life. For me The food industry is the industry that can most arouse passion."

In Angelo’s eyes, Italy is stunning: “I travel around the world and look at various foods. When you ask me where the best cakes are, I still think that Milan is the best. Cova, like Panini, tastes really subtle and beautiful. Nowhere else will there be! In the average person's eyes, French food is very good, and I prefer Italian food. France does have a rich food culture that is different from Italian culture. Compared to the two, French food is meticulous and Italian food is simple. French people are more willing to show the appearance of food, while Italians do not care much about the appearance of food, but just make sure it is delicious enough. This is why I like Italian food most.” ———It seems that in the Angelo concept, the true colors are outstanding.

Angelo often traveled to Milan, London, Los Angeles, Shanghai and other cities when he was in the family business. In recent years, he gradually felt that Shanghai was more and more susceptible to foreign cultures, so he made up his mind about Panini in Italy. The well-known food brought to Shanghai: "This authentic Italian cuisine is sure to be very exotic and attractive to Shanghai people."

Outstanding Panini

Into the Sibilla Boutique Café, the most eye-catching is the exquisite digital chocolate in the translucent glass food display window, hand-made by the world's top West Point master Eric Perez. In addition, EricPerez also manufactures a variety of West Point and breads for this store. Angelo emphasized in particular that Panini’s essence lies in bread. There is no excellent pastry chef and Sibilla will not exist. Eric Perez, one of the top ten West Point divisions in the world, led the US national team to participate in the West Point World Cup held in Lyon, France, and won a silver medal. His fame had also attracted former U.S. Presidential Lady Hillary Clinton, inviting him to make muffin cakes for his 50th birthday. He also became Clinton's Queen's Master Chef at West Point, slamming the baking industry at the time. “EricPerez can do the best thing. Last month we partnered with him to see him make the perfect chocolate and Panini, they are amazingly good. We also tasted what he did this morning. I like his tiramisu best, but his cheesecake is equally tempting.He is an interesting chef: he listens to your request very kindly, and then he drills into the kitchen. The next day, he came out with a masterpiece of delicious food. He had the ability to study hard, and his chocolate and bread had very unique recipes -- so that we could give Panini a great gift." Luo said.

Italy has a rich diet culture. This is partly because diet reflects family culture. You may see a traditional Italian family sitting around a desk and spending a few hours savoring their delicacies. delicious. During this process, members of the entire family talk and laugh, and the most important thing is to get together. As the pace of life is accelerating, the Italians do not eat so pompous and poetic, but they still eat very delicately. Their regular lunch is Panini: a few slices or simple or extraordinary bread, can be very expensive or very "fast food", sandwiched between ham, tomato, fresh mozzarella cheese, oregano, or lemon, green pepper Little Artichoke... It is a very delicate food that incorporates countless ideas. In the 1980s, Panini was popular with young people in Italy. The generation of Italians called this cuisine Pananari and called themselves "Panini children." They may wear a variety of styles of clothing and patronize those best selling Panini's coffee shop, which is the process of developing Panini culture in Italy. There are countless celebrities in Italy who enjoy Panini, such as Pavarotti, one of the world's three major tenors, and the famous actor Sophia Loren. Angelo also often meets famous actor, singer and football player who came for Panini in his own shop in Milan: “I was most impressed by the famous American pop singer Brian Adamst from London. Fly to Milan to taste our Panini.”

In the early days, Angelo acquired some of the most refined Panini stores in Milan, involving more than 200 recipes. After he bought it, he grew the entire business and gained considerable success in Italy. Angelo believed that the business philosophy was very important. He highly praised Starbucks in the coffee chain. “Starbuck is quite good. Of course, it is not expensive. Besides having its own series of coffee every day, it also 'sells unique'—they give products The cultural added value is doing well."

In store design, the Shanghai Sibilla Boutique Café concept store is quite innovative. The interior of the store is decorated with authentic Italian marble, which is very expensive. “Overall, we are advocating a very high-quality diet concept. We are making the most exquisite panini, where the taste of bread is particularly unique – In some places, Panini is a fast food, but here it is quite sophisticated and focuses on Italian culture."

Ancient Fort Secret Wine "private wine"

The delicious Panini must not lose the mix of fine wine. At the beginning of the opening, Angelo brought to Shanghai the authentic Monsordo Rosso and ArneisBlange white wines from the historic Ceretto in northern Italy: “In Italy, you need to book its wine one year in advance – if one The winery is very successful and very popular, and the customer must wait for a while, and those who are familiar with the wine know that the wine itself also takes a year to cool down the processing and is therefore sold one year after the order is placed. Bottles, wine can give off a more delicious mellow."

Angelo’s wine plan does not stop there. He also prepared to bring Shanghai's old castle wine from home———

The Moratti family owns the oldest castle in Italy. The castle named Cigog-nola was built around 1200 AD. There are many stories behind the castle. There have been generations of people living there, including one of the oldest in Italy. Family. In the Middle Ages, it was used as a torture torture site; during World War II, it was occupied by the Nazi army. Outside of these mysterious and rather cruel history, this is an extraordinary and beautiful house. At the same time, it is also a good place for wine making. The Moratti family bought the castle in the 1970s. When they looked at its history, they discovered that in the 17th century, the owner of the castle made a famous wine. “Actually, for generations, there were generations of people who were making wine there. When we discovered this castle, we realized that the soil and sunlight there were quite suitable for making wine, so we made a lot of investment. Almost all of the surrounding mountains were also It was bought. As a result, our family did make fine wine here,” said Angelo.

The Moratti family is called Castelo Cigognola in the castle's secret brewing. It has a reputation in Italy, but it has not been sold before: “We didn’t produce much wine early on and we’ve never sold it publicly, just at Christmas every year. , to share with friends. Nowadays, we have re-acquisitioned many lands and produced more wines than ever before. As the number of years has increased, wines have become more and more delicious. In the past few years, I set foot in food Business, suddenly think of why we don't sell it publicly? It can be introduced into some very elegant, refined venues. I intend to bring these wines to Shanghai next year and sell them in Sibilla Boutique Café."

In order to supply Shanghai, Angelo will also brewing a batch of wine in Cigognola Castle next year, named Moratti, which is his family name: “This wine is brewed in the old castle. It is unique in that it is The pure Italian wine made in the traditional way - it is tempting and reflects the Italian tradition. When it is eaten with Panini, it is a very warm and wonderful feeling. For different guests, each kind of The wine has its unique taste, and it's hard to say exactly how special it is, and the taste of the same kind of wine will be different every year. However, you can obviously feel how pure and strong its taste is. A sense of beauty over the years—they are indeed brewing the years—you can rest assured that there is no more authentic Italian taste than this.”