Ex-Francesco Mazzei chefs to launch Glasgow restaurant
A trio of Italian chefs that all worked for high profile Italian chef restaurateur Francesco Mazzei will launch a restaurant within Glasgow’s Royal Exchange building early this year.
Located in one of the listed building’s former banking halls, Banca di Roma will offer a menu inspired by Antonio, Pasquale and Simone Cozzolino’s upbringing on a three-generation family-run tomato farm in Vesuvio, Naples.
The launch menu will include la nostra foccia ripena (baked baba stuffed with gorgonzola cheese and nduja sausage); and il classico spaghetto a pomodoro (Vesuvian tomato and basil with fresh homemade spaghetti).
There will also be signature gold bar dessert which pays tribute to the building’s banking history.
The front of house team will be led by general manager Rocco Morabito previously of Mayfair’s Novikov and his deputy Filomena Visaggi, who joins from Hakkasan.
