Eataly in Italy

(The projected Roma Eataly)

Welcome Eataly, everyoneloved you in your very first location, Torino, and also liked your outlet in New York. Locals can't wait for you to land in Rome sometime around September! And Eataly will actually land in the Eternal city since it will be located in the Ostiense Air Terminal, a huge hangar-like space in a building made for the 1990 World Soccer Cup and abandoned since then.

Why do many think this new gastronomic space could change for good the way the locals eat here? It is very simple: Italy has an incredible variety of local food products that are usually neglected in Rome. Regional restaurants are few and not particularly appreciated in Rome. The main choice always revolves around Roman cuisine or generally Italian dishes (old or new style). But there is a third way: regional cuisines. Most Italian regions have at least one restaurant in Rome (we will soon write about them) but it is really not enough to try all the excellent stuff coming from all over the country.

On Eataly's shelves you will find the best products from every corner of Italy at reasonable prices, furthermore you will be able to choose among 14 restaurants each one with a focus on one kind of food product: be it meat or pizza or vegetables and so on.

(Turin, the first Eataly in Italy opened 2007)

Rome's Eataly, bound to be the biggest group's shop, will feature four floors on 14,000 square meters and will devote more than 30 percent of its space and one whole restaurant to Lazio local products. There will be a microbrewery, coffee roasting facilities and bread and mozzarella labs open to the public. All the materials used for the building will be recycled.

There are already several Eataly's around the world - several in Italy, four in Japan and two in the US, Chicago and New York (above) opened in 2010. (information from Buzz in Rome).

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