Mogano

16th – 20th June | One sitting from 7pm | £65

In the hills north of Rome, Matteo Faenza’s elegant tasting menus are becoming the stuff of legend.

Winner of Italy’s coveted ‘Emergente Chef’ award last year, Matteo’s delicate and technically brilliant celebration of Italian fine-dining takes creative inspiration from his time at Boragó (Santiago de Chile) – currently No. 23 in the World’s 50Best – and Michelin-starred Nerua, the jewel in the crown of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. Mogano, however, is unquestionably (and delightfully) Italian.

Working with the best of Lazio’s fertile landscape, Matteo creates gastronomic theatre for just five softly-lit tables at a time, drawing fine dining lovers from across Italy to the sleepy town of Formello with tasting menus of ‘Asparagus, Almond and Black Garlic’, ‘Sesame Seed and Cypress Cone Risotto’ and ‘Oxtail, Cardoon and Artichoke’ (‘coda, cardo e carciofo’ in Italian).

Mogano is the kind of dining experience that gets us very excited. An emerging mega talent doing something truly wonderful, somewhere truly wonderful, brought to your doorstep right here in London for five nights.