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There are some experiences in life that we carry with us forever and which we want to share with others. It is the desire to do exactly that where our story begins.
It all began at a family Sunday lunch with our mums and our friends from the Lucania region, in Basilicata. I, the son of gastronomes, and my brothers in-law, whose parents are all farmers, met after our first culinary experience in Berlin, which flourished at the ‘A Muntagnola Restaurant where we had begun to put German public opinion on Italian cuisine to the test. While eating we engaged in lively conversation on the subject of food, and in particular on culinary memories that we had the good fortune to share during our years spent in Italy.
These memories were made of flavours such as that of the taste of tomato eaten in September, or that of fat hanging and seasoning in the kitchen all winter long to be eaten later on a slice of toasted bread, or home-made sausages made following a traditional technique called ‘a coltello’, and which necessarily had to be preserved in lard (‘sugna’) in clay vases that protected the sausages from light. And still other memories came to mind of meat sauce prepared at dawn, in the early morning hours, and left on the fire to cook until lunchtime, when it would be served with home-made pasta, and would have people roaming around the saucepan at about 11, before lunch, just for a tiny snack of bread and sauce. And right then, that Sunday lunch, we decided to open a restaurant that would bring back exactly those flavours and our lifetimes of culinary moments, and which is our treat and pleasure to have been able to offer you since 1997, whilst continuously searching for products that best respect the traditions which our families have handed down to us, and of which we are the enthusiastic custodians.

Mimmo Bianco


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Al Contadino Sotto Le Stelle Restaurant
Auguststraße 36, 10119 Berlin
Germany

+49 30 281 90 23 Fax: +49 30 281 90 05
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Al Mozzarella Bar & Bottega (Feinkost)
Auguststraße 34, 10119 Berlino
Germany

+49 30 978 941 40 Fax: +49 30 281 90 05
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