Gucci Osteria Food Is Fashion

Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura Beverly Hills combines food and fashion in an elegant rooftop space with Gucci Décor touches and a modern Italian menu expressed by a young and talented chef.

On December 12th, 2023, the esteemed annual online guide 50 Top Italy revealed its highly anticipated ranking of the top 50 Italian restaurants in the world for 2024. Mattia Agazzi, head chef of Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills, accepted the award for 28th place at the gala event that took place at the Teatro San Babila in Milan.

Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills is one of four modern Italian restaurants in the brand’s portfolio, which also includes outposts in Tokyo, Seoul and Florence; the latter is the original location of the restaurant group and birthplace of the House of Gucci. Fusing fashion and food, each of the four restaurants is located within a flagship Gucci store. The project is a collaboration between childhood friends and visionaries Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri and three-Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana in Modena. The restaurants share a culinary philosophy that embodies creativity, elegance, humour and sensuality, yet each incorporates local flavours and subtleties to reflect a unique identity and sense of place.

The menu at Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills is an expression of the mind of a young and talented chef who draws inspiration from his Italian roots and his childhood memories to create and execute playful dishes.

Originally from Bergamo, Chef Mattia Agazzi has had an impressive culinary career working with acclaimed chefs around the globe before landing in the kitchen of Osteria Francescana in 2017. Recognizing his talent and potential, Bottura invited Agazzi to work as sous-chef at Gucci Osteria in Florence the following year, helping the restaurant earn its first Michelin star before accepting the position of head chef at Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills at the beginning of 2020. Pastry chef Tamara Rigo, who worked with Agazzi in Florence and who has trained in the most prestigious kitchens in the world, was chosen by Bottura to help Agazzi launch the restaurant. Also part of the dynamic Beverly Hills kitchen team is Canadian sous-chef Vanessa Chiu.

Situated on the rooftop of the Gucci Beverly Hills store on Rodeo Drive, the restaurant is accessed via a discreet elevator directly from the street level. Once upstairs, diners are greeted in the stylish reception area, with walls clad in Gucci Décor foliage-printed wallpaper, an ornate red rug on the floor and a dramatic black ceiling featuring star-shaped spotlights. Indoors, herringbone wood flooring and plush red velvet banquettes at once evoke Hollywood glamour and old-school Italian elegance. The outdoor terrace, fitted with Italian marble mosaic flooring and a repurposed wooden pulpit that serves as a bar, offers sweeping views of the Hollywood Hills and the luxury shops of palm-tree-lined Rodeo Drive below. Antique mirrors, red marble dining tables and handcrafted rattan bistro chairs add their ambience to the elegantly casual space. Other eye-catching aesthetics include leather-bound menus, accent chairs upholstered in Gucci-monogrammed fabric and porcelain plateware by Richard Ginori featuring Gucci’s Herbarium motif.

The menu at Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills is an expression of the mind of a young and talented chef who draws inspiration from his Italian roots and his childhood memories to create and execute playful dishes. Indispensable Italian ingredients, such as balsamic vinegar and Parmigiano Reggiano are prominent, while respect is paid to seasonal California produce sourced from local farmers, fishers, cheesemakers and foragers who embrace the values of Slow Food, growing and producing food in a fair, ethical and sustainable way.

Signature dishes include “Coming from the Hills — I Love Rock Climbing,” made with local white trout, hazelnuts and mushrooms and developed from Agazzi’s childhood memories of foraging and rock climbing in the mountains of Northern Italy. “Risotto Camouflaged as Pizza” honours rice — an ingredient that hails from the chef ’s home region — while paying homage to the Italian pizza tradition by using pizza ingredients — tomato, basil, stracciatella — as well as burnt caper powder to produce a look reminiscent of pizza crust. Signature dishes from Florence also appear on the Beverly Hills menu, including Bottura’s legendary “Emilia Burger,” which arrives on the plate in a pink takeout box. It is a nod to both the icon of modern American cuisine and to Bottura’s home region of Emilia Romagna, where the cotechino sausage in the patty and the balsamic vinegar that laces its accompanying sauce are produced. Also on the menu is Bottura’s famous tortellini, made with a creamy Parmigiano Reggiano sauce. The lunch menu offers a choice of à la carte selections, while the dinner service is only a tasting menu and the Sunday service is a prix-fixe four-course brunch. The wine list is one of L.A.’s most exclusive and includes exceptional pairing options that feature wines from around the world.

Gucci Osteria Tokyo claimed an impressive second place in 50 Top Italy’s ranking of the top 50 Italian restaurants in the world for 2024. Head chef Antonio Iacoviello also won the Dish of the Year award for his “Pacchero ai 7 Pomodori dei Campi,” a dish that combines the finest Italian pasta with a variety of Japanese tomatoes and evokes memories of the summers he spent in his home region of Campania. Along with the honour received by Gucci Osteria Beverly Hills, these remarkable acknowledgements demonstrate the brand’s success in advancing and bringing modern Italian cuisine to the world.

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1. The elegant space features herringbone wood flooring inside, mosaic Italian marble flooring on the outdoor terrace and accent chairs upholstered in Gucci-monogram fabric.
2. Red velvet banquettes evoke Hollywood glamour; Gucci Décor wallpaper and Italian porcelain plates featuring Gucci’s Herbarium motif add distinctive design touches.
3. Whimsy and elegance are defining features of the restaurant and its menu.