April 29^{th Holiday} & 30^{th Fri}

 トスカーナ　エレガンス　パーティーのご案内  ４月２９日（木）祭日、３０日（金）

先日News Letterでお知らせしたように、GWの始めに、シェフMarioから皆様に感謝をこめて、彼の故郷、トスカーナ地方をテーマとした「トスカーナ・エレガンス パーティ」を開催いたします！　トスカーナといえばフィレンツェ、ピサ、シエナといった街の名が思い浮かびますが、Marioのホームタウンはトスカーナ州ルッカ県。そこは地中海に面した美しいリヴィエラの地域で、ヴェルシリア、フォルテ・ディ・マルニといったイタリアンエレガンスを好むジェットセッターやセレブリティー達に愛されてきた、高級リゾート海岸が幾つもあります。

Mario i sentieriのオープンキッチンでMarioのクッキングレッスンに参加してみませんか？
 

季節の食材をふんだんに使ったコース料理（前 菜、パスタ、メイン、デザートの４皿）の作り方をMario i SentieriのキッチンにてMario自身がご紹介しております。

レッスンの後は、皆様がMarioと一緒に作ったお料理を、ワインと一緒にお楽しみ頂けます。

定員は９名様限定、お料理に合わせたグラスワイン２杯とホームメードフォカチャも付いて参加費用は10,000円になっております。　開催時間は午後12時から３時３０分までです。

ご参加希望の方は 03-6418-7072までご連絡をお待ちしております。

さて今回のクッキングレッスンのメニューは下記のとおりです。

Marioの出身地であるトスカーナの食材ファッロを使った珍しい前菜や、チョウチョの形をしたかわいらしいショートパスタ ファルファッレで春野菜たっぷりのカルボナーラを作ります。

また新鮮な帆立貝のバターソテーは、出盛りのグリーンピースで作った、目にも鮮やかな美しいグリーンのソースを添えて、プロならではの一品を習えます！　

気になるデザートはほんのり桜色をしたゼリーに季節のフルーツを添えて、パーティーにもぴったりなおしゃれな盛り付けでご紹介します。この春の桜を名残惜しんでお召し上がりください・・・

Hi everyone!

Judging by the weather, we're moving back and forth between January and March, but the calendar tells us it's spring, and time for a new menu.

We'll be posting the menu on the website within a couple of days, but we start serving from tonight, and it includes Roast Yamagata Pork with Seasonal Vegetables, Sauteed Yellow Sea Bream with Clams, Seaweed and Seasonal Vegetables, and of course, some of our old favorites, including Pistachio Gnocchi.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Mario and the team

Happy birthday to ... me! 

It happens to everyone, once a year, and today is that day for me. I'm a day older, and I'm celebrating!

Come by the restaurant for dinner tonight and raise a glass of spumante to my continued good health (hahaha!). I'm buying!

Mario (the birthday boy)

Join Mario for hands-on cooking lessons in the open kitchen at Mario i sentieri, where Mario guides a small class (only nine students) through the preparation of a four-course meal (appetizer, pasta, main dish and dessert) using seasonal ingredients. After the meal, everyone sits down together to eat the delicious food the group has prepared, and to drink three kinds of wine! 

Attendance is limited to nine students, and the cost is only ¥10,000, so phone 03-6418-7072 today to book your place! Classes run from 12:00-3:30 p.m. and this month will be held on April 3rd and 17th.

If you’ve been to our restaurant in the past few months you will have seen David Stanley Hewett’s Bushido series on display. 

Italy is famous for wine, and rightly so, but we have on occasion been known to enjoy a cocktail or two before dinner, or ... any time.

Join Mario for hands-on cooking lessons in the open kitchen at Mario i sentieri, where Mario guides a small class (only nine students) through the preparation of a four-course meal (appetizer, pasta, main dish and dessert) using seasonal ingredients. After the meal, everyone sits down together to eat the delicious food the group has prepared, and to drink three kinds of wine! 

Attendance is limited to nine students, and the cost is only ¥10,000, so phone 03-6418-7072 today to book your place! Classes run from 12:00-3:30 p.m. and this month will be held on March 6th and 20th.

We were very pleased to welcome world famous Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra to dinner at Mario i sentieri the other night, after a performance at Suntory Hall. 

Licitra made his debut at La Scala 10 years ago under Riccardo Muti and soon after landed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Music. He extended his fame beyond the classical music world when he stepped in at the last minute when Luciano Pavarotti dropped out of a performance of Tosca at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. 

In case you're wondering, we didn't ask him to sing for his supper.

We were reading the other day about an American university team that has developed a robot it calls SnackBot. As far as we can tell, SnackBot, which incorporates a $20,000 laser navigation system and sonar sensors, exists primarily to retrieve snacks from the kitchen while you're drinking beer and watching television.

Unsurprisingly, Japanese companies are also developing robochefs, and the Motoman SDA-10 specializes in okonomiyaki. Check out the spatula hands.

None of these robochefs have mouths, however, so we're skeptical that they're able to tell when the food is perfectly cooked, an important consideration when you like your pasta al dente rather than scotta!

You can read the story here.