This year Matt offered all collaborators a gourmet evening with DAVIDE OLDANI’S POP KITCHEN, in the evocative setting of Casa Villa. Davide Oldani explains his concept of cuisine in this way:

“My POP kitchen was born from the desire to mix the essential with the well done, the good with the accessible, innovation with tradition. I am convinced that great Italian cuisine is great – as well as for variety and taste – also for the possibility it offers of being constantly reinterpreted: I did it with simplicity, giving value to all the ingredients and making seasonality and high quality product quality two fixed points. To these key points I have added a principle that guides me in the preparation of each dish: the search for harmony in the balance of contrasts, which for me means not only a promise of sweet in the salty and a “memory” of salty in the sweet , but the harmonious coexistence in each dish of everything that stimulates the palate: soft, crunchy, hot, cold, sweet, bitter … “