A Madrid dream for 2 Italian restaurant entrepeneurs goes bitter as a result of their landlord´s determination.
Giorgia and Carlo from Rome arrived in Madrid with their kids in 2018 with a dream to arrange a small restaurant based mostly on freshly made genuine Roman delicacies.
Inside a 12 months, they opened ‘La Pasteria 55’ within the Guillermo de Osma Municipal Market in Legazpi, changing a frozen meals stall into slightly nook of Italy. “We actually preferred the thought of being a part of a market in order that we might use the contemporary merchandise that now we have readily available in addition to components that come from Italy” Giorgia says.
Ranked by Con El Morro Fino as among the best locations in Madrid to eat pasta, Carlo and Giorgia have labored extraordinarily arduous to make the place a average success, together with having to battle by means of the Covid lockdown solely 9 months after they first opened, the hyperinflation of the previous 12 months, and coping with the truth that greater than half of the posts available in the market are empty. Sturdy reward for the restaurant has additionally come from TimeOut, Expansión, Canal Cocina, MadridDiferente and the popular meals web site Eat Stroll Die, which described it as ‘a temple to pasta’.
Carlo prepares all of the meals himself, together with a mouth-watering porchetta, tagliatelle al ragù, an genuine Roman carbonara (with guanciale and pecorino), and a number of other seafood plates. Every Tuesday he prepares the varied contemporary egg pastas (tagliatelle, rigatoni, fusilli…) after which turns them into richly scrumptious dishes.
Nevertheless, in a devastating flip, they have been just lately knowledgeable that Rya Residencias S.L., concessionaire of the Guillermo de Osma Municipal Market, wouldn’t renew their license they usually must vacate the submit by February 2024.
Surprised by the information and being refused any clarification, they will solely assume that it is associated to their repeated requests for higher transparency from the concessionaire relating to the cash they have been being charged and the obligations it has in managing the market. “It bought so dangerous”, says Giorgia, “that final 12 months we needed to ask the Madrid Metropolis Council’s Commerce Workplace to intervene within the dispute.”
The intervention resulted within the creation of a communal seating space and the establishing of the web site and social networks for the market, however they weren’t in a position to get higher readability on administration charges and different prices every stall holder has to pay.
“We perceive that Rya Residencias S.L. will not be obliged to resume our contract and its determination is totally authorized”, she provides, “however we’re amazed that the corporate prefers to create one other empty stall, somewhat than help and encourage those which are working effectively. Plus, we’re fearful about our colleagues, the opposite stall holders.”
They are going to be open in the course of the vacation season and proper by means of till the tip of February. It might be the final alternative for MM readers to attempt their fantastic Roman delicacies. They at present don’t have the monetary assets to begin over, Giorgia admits, as a result of substantial prices of becoming out a restaurant and acquiring licenses, and really feel they haven’t any selection however to desert (not less than for now) the dream that initially introduced them to Madrid.
