Ristorante Savini

Ive never eaten so well, was the comment signed by the great Charlie Chaplin. Thus Savinis was born in 1884. Because of its location close to the Manzoni theatre, it was a popular meeting place for both artists and scholars the salon of art and culture that Emilio Praga and Milans other Scapigliati called their Mount Parnassus. Right from the turn of the century, Savinis was a popular meeting place for celebrities from the world of art and culture, from Giuseppe Verdi to Giacomo Puccini, from Pietro Mascagni to Arturo Toscanini, and from Eleonora Duse to Sacha Guitry. Not to mention Arrigo Boito, Gabriele DAnnunzio, Giovanni Verga, Mose Bianchi, Luigi Capuana, Emilio Praga, and even Tommaso Marinetti, the father of Futurism, who organized a banquet of Futurist cuisine and then said to Remo Mannoni, It was our Ernani night, even though for the occasion we had to do without my yellow risotto, cutting-edge cuisine of such unspeakable astuteness that even Montaigne envied us. Since ...