San Carlo Classic Crisps (50g)

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It was ‘the’ place to be seen and guests even asked to be seated in the window so they were sure to be spotted.

In honour of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Selfridges have launched a quarterly campaign of bard-inspired events and dramatic fashion collections throughout the store. As part of this, San Carlo Bottega, the chic Italian restaurant and champagne bar on the second floor, will be putAs Roundhay’s infamous Flying Pizza Italian restaurant prepares to celebrate it’s 40th birthday later this year, celebrity Chef and Author Aldo Zilli cooked up a summer feast combining the best of Yorkshire and Italian summer seasonal produce. This day had been planned for a while. We took a Friday off work and caught the train into Leeds to do our Christmas Shopping. The train decision was because parking at this time of year is ridiculous and we always intended to finish the day with a late lunch at the amazing San Carlo on South Parade and we knew we would be in no fit state to drive afterwards! I’m passionate about produce, using the best seasonal ingredients and allowing them to shine is what great Italian cooking is all about – which county in the UK could be better to share this passion with than YORKSHIRE? I love it, you have the best regional produce – from vegetables and fruit to your wild boar, rabbit and trout, the possibilities excite me and marry perfectly with our food and that’s what we’re showcasing at Flying Pizza this weekend.” So these crisps are made with fresh, ripe, juicy Scottish tomatoes from the sun-kissed hills, glens and mountains ? You can see why the rich and the famous like to come here and eat. The room is absolutely buzzing in a way that not many other restaurants achieve. The food is spectacular, over the top and all served with panache and theatre. You feel good about yourself while sitting here and being taken care of.

Favourite dishes of the tasting, though, was Prosciutto-like cured lamb sliced thin and served with mint, tomatoes and pistachios. Italian born Zilli, Executive Consultant Chef for San Carlo group of eighteen award winning UK restaurants, jetted in to Birmingham from his birth place in Abruzzo, Italy, with a rare white winter truffle on Friday 28th October. AUTHENTIC is a word much abused. Seasonal, too. And Italian restaurants that pay true attention to regionality are few and far between. Glossy San Carlo Cicchetti has never stayed tied for long to its name, a homage to Venetian gondoliers’ favourite small plates but in exec development chef Filipp And while Highlander Crisps have been absent for a decade now in Scotland, the brand continues to dominate the flavoured crisp market in a country famous for its gelato, pizza and pasta. cess and expertise to his ongoing work with Flying Pizza, part of the award winning San Carlo Group of Italian restaurants, where he works with the Group’s executive chefs.

San Carlo, South Parade, chic yet authentic Italian dining in Leeds city centre. Situated on South Parade in the city centre, San Carlo is a large yet stylish restaurant, designed to create its own, unique atmosphere, using natural light and glass to blend contemporary and classic themes. This excit The tables are all white linen and nothing seems to have been left to chance when it comes to the set up. The crowd is very much a mixture of business folk, people out for a celebratory lunch (anniversaries, birthdays and graduations) with pretty much everybody in the room well-dressed.

But even when tasted with a smile, because the name’s so bizarrely off-the-wall you really kind-of have to love it… As one observer put it: “Italians used to be rubbish at producing their own crisps. When I lived in Italy in the late 1980's and early 1990's all crisps were ready salted or paprika flavour.” Equally so if Highlander Caledonian Tomato was a Muhammad Ali among crisps. The Greatest of All Time. Those who crave heartier fayre to match the onset of autumn will need to rush over to experience ultimate Italian comfort food like Gnocchi coated with butter, sage and Monte Veronese cheese, a cow’s milk cheese which San Carlo had flown over especially. The gnocchi is served here in an edible cheese and breadcrumb basket.It’s one of the world’s truly great cuisines. But perhaps the stellar heights achieved by a perfect Spaghetti alla Carbonara; or Ossobucco; or Bistecca alla Fiorentina can begin to explain why, in a kind of strange inverse ratio, Italian junk food is…well…junk.

hite truffle, so highly prized it’s known as the king of the culinary world. The edible buried treasure was discovered by professional truffle hunters in the national park of the Abruzzo region using specially trained dogs. In short if you are famous, good at sport or have plenty of cash then San Carlo is probably the first place you are going to end up getting a bit of grub in Manchester.

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The years of the economic boom and the generational change were those in which the company PAI was founded. Indeed, in that prosperous Italy of the first summer getaways, of FIAT 500, of the first miniskirts, and of Carosello, P.A.I. (Prodotti Alimentari Industriali – “Industrial foodstuffs”) was born in Novara. That was the beginning of a story of fragrances and flavoured crisp which accompanied the Italians until the present time. Last year in Italy potato chips alone provided a turnover of about 300 million euros; their consumption is constantly rising (+5,6% compared to 2016), thanks to a varied and captivating offer: new flavors and variants, new formats enrich the shelves of supermarkets and make this product more and more attractive to the consumer. “The segment with the biggest growth – underlines San Carlo – is that of French fries.