In the collision between knife and fire, busy and dedicated chefs are like a well-trained army. Skilled and fast food delivery, accompanied by "Yes Chef!" Shout and answer, like a powerful horn. Chef is the leader of the kitchen, leading the team to meet the honor battle in the name of delicious food day after day.

And in Davvittorio Shanghai (hereinafter referred to as DV), you must have met this Chef. Always with the unique enthusiasm of Italian men, he has a hearty laugh and quick and powerful actions. He is Stefano Bacchelli, the chef of DV Shanghai Store. If the Cerea family is the soul of DV, then Chef Stefano is the heart of DV Shanghai store.

These stories and praise for the high quality of DV Shanghai Store have been passed down from mouth to mouth among diners, making this restaurant stand at the forefront of Shanghai catering since it opened in June 2119.

Stefano first came to Shanghai briefly in 2118, when the DV Shanghai store was still an unfinished plan. Although he has been to Taibei for a short trip, he is still a stranger to China. And the Bund's modern and historical urban landscape gave him a beautiful and deep impression.

Italian restaurant decorated with retro style and Shanghai Bund

On March 31th, 2119, the restaurant took shape, and he got ready and officially moved to Shanghai. Since 2111, he has joined the DV Italy team, shouldering the glorious history of Italy's Davitorio for more than half a century, and bringing his beloved Italian cuisine to this completely new city for him.

Unknown challenges, future guests and strange cities bring not fear but expectation.

during the break, Stefano gave beef lessons to his field partners

In June 2119, the opening of DV Shanghai Store attracted great attention, and picky diners listened to the legendary story and walked into the restaurant with high expectations. We can't afford to be sloppy, and we can only meet the high expectations of the whole team, and the delicious dishes that live up to expectations.

Of course, Michelin judges followed, and they got a star after only three months of opening. I remember meeting Stefano a few days before the Michelin Awards Ceremony in September 2119 and asking him if he thought he could win the stars. He said modestly, "I don't know, I hope so." And his eyes are shining with a smile of confidence and expectation.

In a blink of an eye, DV Shanghai Store has been open for one year. He said with a smile: "At first, when they (referring to the management team of Italian DV) asked me if I wanted to be a chef in Shanghai Store, I was thinking: Why should I go to China? Now, I will firmly say: I want to go to China, I like it here! "

besides connecting him with his guests with delicious food, Stefano likes to feel the city by walking. He usually likes to use his mobile phone to record the interesting people and scenes he sees or can touch him.

The wonderful thing is that across this block is the bustling Bund. Young people in fashionable clothes are rushing through high-end office buildings. He stood in front of DV's floor-to-ceiling window and looked across the Huangpu River. His eyes were the towering Shanghai center and Lujiazui, which is always modern and energetic.

However, as a Chef who loves food and is keen to explore, Stefano has a favorite place to visit, and that is the vegetable market.

"Boletus in Yunnan is also very good, and we are using it now. A few days ago, my friends sent me a WeChat message saying that they had gone to Yunnan to eat mushrooms. "

The vegetable market is probably a playground for every chef who loves discovery and research.

spaghetti with glue?

On the menu of the first anniversary of DV Shanghai Store, there is a particularly eye-catching dish. China diners are familiar with the expensive ingredients, yellow gum, and Italy are familiar with pasta. DV Italian restaurant's classic dishes have a different graceful flavor from China's food materials.

It was Stefano's inspiration to put 11-year-old yellow gum into vegetables from many Chinese restaurants. Flower gum is tender and smooth, mixed with Italian flat noodles, and under the embrace of rich sauce, the ingredients of the East and the West blend into a wonderful harmonious experience between the lips and teeth.

Stefano's exploration of international cooking is not limited to Italian and China. In his creation, in addition to DV's classic dishes and traditional Italian flavor, he can also see a lot of French cooking skills, as well as modern presentation techniques that are not limited to cuisines.

BLACK? IN? BLACK

is like this new dish in the first anniversary menu. Compared with the name on the menu, Stefano himself calls it "Back in Black". Just like his favorite black-and-white photos, he thinks that black and white can return to purity and make people unaffected by color. Under black and white, it can give birth to a more authentic taste feeling.

He stewed cuttlefish with white Italian corn porridge and black cuttlefish juice, and presented the classic dishes of Venice seaside to diners in a modern artistic way. Small cuttlefish was wrapped in delicious cuttlefish juice and slipped into the mouth, tender and without losing the bones and muscles of Q-bomb. Mix the corn porridge with its own fragrance and the sauce with fresh sweet milk fragrance, and the delicious taste of the sea will come to your mouth.

Stefano started working in restaurants at the age of 19, and French food is also an important part of his career as a chef. The teenager who left his hometown town first worked in a high-class Michelin restaurant, which was the French restaurant in northern Italy. Then I left Italy and went to a Michelin-starred restaurant in Cannes, a famous movie city on the French Riviera.

until 2111, Stefano officially joined DV and became a member of this legendary family. And served as the chef of an important Italian branch of DV. But coming to China as the chef of the Shanghai branch doesn't mean that you are at home.

Actually, at the beginning of DV's opening in Shanghai, there were some voices of doubt, saying that the dishes here were like French food. Stefano didn't shy away from the question.

For modern Fine dining restaurants, the cuisines are not so open. Whether Italian, French or Spanish, you can find cooking elements from many different countries in a Fine dining restaurant. Isn't it the charm of this kind of restaurant to use ingredients and techniques from all over the world to present amazing and unexpected dishes and give diners an extraordinary food experience?

"What's more, Italy and France are so close. In the Middle Ages, the territory of France and Italy was not even as it is now. Some parts of Italy used to be French. The cooking techniques and setting of dishes are all forms, and we always adhere to the spiritual core of Italian cooking. "

in Stefano's mind, it is the core of Italian cuisine to find high-quality ingredients, respect each ingredient and restore the charming flavor of the ingredients with your own hands. Of course, constantly exploring the boundaries of delicious food is also the spiritual core that chefs need to stick to all their lives.

Italian legendary Samsung restaurant Davitorio, which has been operating for half a century, officially settled in Shanghai Bund in June 2119, and DV Shanghai Store just celebrated its first birthday in June 2121.

forecourt and kitchen for dinner

In 2121, the beginning of the whole world is very magical. The first year of DV Shanghai store was also quite bumpy. After the opening in 2119 and the autumn and winter festival season, it was full of challenges for them. Let the new Shanghai story of this legendary Italian restaurant add some adventure.

during this visit, the environment of the restaurant has quietly changed. The entrance of the new porch design, a touch of hazy red, so that here infected with a little old Shanghai retro style. As for the little fox crouching at the door, perhaps it came to Shanghai to play secretly from the forest on the Bergamo Mountain in our Italian shop?

The soft and transparent crystal lamp redesigned in the bar gives people a quiet and elegant aesthetic feeling. When people walk into the restaurant, they unconsciously relax and immerse themselves in the pleasure brought by the food.

this time, the restaurant has been completely redesigned, no matter from decorative works of art, flowers and song lists. Artists put Italian and China elements together in this space.

By the way, we also found an amazing work in the first anniversary menu. Chef Frederic, the dessert, served a sugar art dessert full of oriental aesthetic interest. Exquisite vases are like colored glass, forming irregular gradient colors, which makes people unbearable. As for the taste, I'll sell it to you and leave it to you to crack the sugar shell with your own hands to feel it.

DA VITTORIO SHANGHAI

3rd floor, Building N3, North Zone, BFC Bund Financial Center, No.611 Zhongshan East Second Road

121-63312198