In Italy, la cucina is more than the room where dinner gets made. It’s where the day is talked over, where guests always end up no matter how carefully you’ve arranged the sitting room, and where most of the best evenings begin.

La Cucina is where we keep everything that goes on around the beer: tables worth setting, recipes worth cooking, stories worth telling, and the kind of easy entertaining Italians have never needed a name for. No chef’s tricks, no long distance shopping lists; just good food, Northern Italian in spirit, and maybe even a cold Menabrea to wash it all down.