High-end Italian food market and
restaurant chain Eataly will open a new outlet in the Marais
district of Paris on Friday.
The store - built over 4,000 square meters including 2,600
which are open to the public - will be open seven days a week
until midnight and until 2 am from Thursday to Sunday.
"Each one of our stores becomes part of a context", said
founder Oscar Farinetti.
"We want to dedicate this one in Paris to fraternité".
Decoration work for the outlet was in full swing when a
political and diplomatic crisis between Rome and Paris escalated
over the last few months.
However, Farinetti expressed optimism "because in our other
stores worldwide the most numerous visitors from abroad are
French".
The Galeries Lafayette group has an exclusive franchise deal
to operate the Eataly brand in France.
Half of the items sold at the store will be Italian and the
other half French with original products including a French
replica of the iconic Italian mozzarella buffalo cheese made
with French milk and produced in the 12th arrondissement of
Paris every morning to be sold at the Eataly Marais.
Overall, a total of 1,500 Italian products will be on sale at
the outlet, which will include seven restaurants.
A total of 1,200 Italian wine labels will be on offer in "the
largest Italian wine cellar in Paris", said Farinetti.
The store will employ 300 workers.
The Parisian outlet of Eataly - which has stores worldwide
including in Dubai and New York - will include a
Neapolitan-style coffee shop and an ice cream parlor with
specialties made by high-end chocolate manufacturer Venchi.
The 'Bar Torino' overlooking the square Sainte-Croix de la
Bretonnerie will offer aperitifs with 'focaccia' and pasta.
A bakery will sell a wide range of pizzas, from the thin
roman-style variety, to the Genoese 'focaccia'.
Celebrated French butcher Yves-Marie le Bourdonnec will
cooperate with Piedmont-based meat producers who are part of the
Granda consortium to offer top-quality meats.
Parma prosciutto ham and Roman pecorino cheese will be among
specialties in the department "Salumi e formaggi", cold cuts and
cheeses.
An open-air market with top Italian produce, ranging from
Roman artichokes to Sicilian tomatoes and fresh peas, is
expected to be a major attraction, along with an Italian cooking
school.
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