Il Palato Italiano: Italy, Out of Italy

Filippo Sinisgalli and Whoopi Goldberg

Il Palato Italiano is a top-notch food hunter with a vocation for customized foodie experiences. Led by Executive Chef Filippo Sinisgalli and his brigade of young talents, the adventure of this Italian family-run business has crossed the ocean to conquer America with its authentic Chef On Tour show. A powerful, life shaking 5 hour Chef@Home experience, to deeply appreciate the infinite flavours of Italian cuisine and its traditions while enjoying an exceptional team of hospitality masters.

Chef @ Home experience

A close-up picture of a dream becoming a project;
…Of a project becoming a company;
…Of a company and the preciousness of the human capital who made it.

Chef @Home

Firmly believing in something” is necessary to master a recipe of, most of the times, non-written ingredients. It may sound an oxymoron but this is the component of risk that makes the difference between entrepreneurs and the rest of the world. It is not a blind bet, it’s a kind of inner faith that you don’t study on ordinary university handbooks. Sometimes it’s even something that you’ll never learn. This is essentially what the people of Il Palato Italiano have in common; an extraordinary skilled team of professionals moved by the power of their personal commitment to make what for others may seem impossible possible.

Dish by Filippo Sinisgalli

Everything starts with a plan, like a rock star with their concert dates, and when the monthly agenda is firmly set and the course is charted the fun part begins. As a theatre director, Event Manager Mrs. Tiziana Sinisgalli gathers all the departments needed for the Chef On Tour Experience: artisans, fashion architects, Italian food & wine producers, tradition experts, sweet-memories collectors… each one with a fundamental role, a part to play when the curtains raise. 

Chef @ Home Experience

The full senses of our food-lover audience will be involved and every detail is important to make them touch, breathe, taste and smell the authentic origins of our Italian roots right from the start: tailor-made tableware for those who have requested specific paper artists to enrich the Capodimonte porcelains; custom-made menu covers by Italian watercolour painters; precious glass napkin-holders by Venetian craftsmen, Florentine texture designers… and so on (…) A list that ends when the client’s imagination is satisfied”, says Tiziana while happily smiling at her General Manager and Experience Curator Nadia Bertani, being part of the company with her luxury hôtellerie background.

Chef On Tour show

The Hospitality Manager is Mr. Graziano Sartini, who is in charge of scouting the storytellers, those who will be strongly connected with the Chef and responsible for sharing their food knowledge and satisfying any curiosities around the table. In fact, as well as serving and explaining every course that will be created specifically for each Chef@Home Experience, their job is to add the right amount of voice-over to the recipe, gently accompanying every bite with the Italian family story behind the scene. 

 

Il Palato Italiano brigade

Just imagine to lose yourself in the dark waters of Iseo Lake, learn about the bottle of wine you are tasting, or stroll into a chestnut forest to breath the aroma of the ham selected for you, or quickly travel to Modena just to add a single drop of the 100-year old vinegar from the barrique it is preserved in (…)”, continues Mrs. Bertani.

And then comes what every previous step is made for, Executive Chef Filippo Sinisgalli’s Magic.

Chef @ Home experience

Honestly, there is no particular secret to be unveiled about this gifted maestro, except for one: no hidden message lingers behind his flavours, you can always find the way he has designed to amuse your senses.

“Being creative doesn’t necessary mean to dream wild combinations and delegate the client the effort of internalizing them (…) stick to the roots, rediscover what has been forgotten and enhance the quality of raw products: all this has become my way to every palate. This is the preciousness of Italian food: simplicity in every bite.”

Il Palato Italiano brigade

The major challenge in the real world, where it is not enough to have an excellent captain, is to own a well-trained crew. Executive Chef Sinisgalli’s brigade is, today, a kitchen-hub where the selection of its members is made among professionals with a distinctive passion and a strong commitment. This makes room for a global sharing of experiences and new growing educational opportunities that turn a group into a family. And believe me… this is an Italian trademark: nothing brings together ideas, expertise and wild dreams better than a family around the table.

Who am I? A lucky observer for now, a narrator with a private view.

Il Palato Italiano organizers

I feel just like a camera operator coming closer and closer to the emotions that this incredible group of people is able to genuinely produce, glimpsing the moment when the guests close their eyes for a quick second, with a smile, a wink, a nod, a memory of those Italian summer flavours.

 

Flavours reminding them lemon tree groves or the sea-salty wind that blew on a Sunday morning at the street market, and that now quickly blows away through New York’s skyscrapers. My privileged angle makes these moments immortal, in an era of omniscient influencer and expensive, unavoidable social media experts, they remain the most valuable and true reason of your journey. Next stop, East Coast 2020 so… the Chef On Tour machine has just started its engines again and the first 10 dates are already sold out.

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Producer Federica Bertani
Art Director Francesco Piras