Ricca Pizzería – an progressive Italian culinary expertise in Seville, that includes Spain’s first ‘Omakase’ pizza bar

Andalucia’s vibrant and alluring capital is rising as a recent gastronomic vacation spot – a metropolis the place you’ll be able to count on a lot greater than tapas. The brand new Ricca Pizzería Seville restaurant is amongst the trailblazers of this new tradition of culinary storytelling, providing genuine, handcrafted Italian pizzas, in addition to a novel omakase-style tasting expertise on the purpose-built bar.

Just lately opened in Seville’s riverside El Arenal neighbourhood, Ricca Pizzería is a classy, but relaxed restaurant that brings collectively the feelgood vibes of Italian meals, with the inventive ingenuity of Spain’s modern eating scene, writes Andrew Forbes (The Luxurious Editor).

Artistic culinary ingenuity

Omakase is a Japanese idea, the place company get pleasure from a tasting menu, devised by the chef – the phrase is alleged to imply ‘I depart it as much as you’ – you let the chef take the lead, suggesting and creating dishes based mostly in your preferences, dietary restrictions and the most effective seasonal elements. It’s a gastronomic strategy that has impressed two culinary entrepreneurs, Lorenzo and Víctor, from Florence and Seville respectively who created Seville’s first Japanese restaurant with omakase bar, the acclaimed Kinu Restaurant Sevilla.

Now the gastronomic duo, by means of their enterprise La Bombonera, have prolonged the omakase expertise to Italian delicacies with the opening of Ricca Pizzería Sevilla.

Omakase Pizza Bar

At first, the thought sounds unorthodox, however in execution, it’s completely thrilling, a real feast for all of the senses.

As quickly as you enter you’re embraced by cool, modern, pared-back design. Ricca Pizzería feels contemporary, fashionable and thrilling but the main points every take robust design cues from Italy, with elegant hardwood, ceramic tiles and naturally genuine Italian pizza ovens. The crew are so welcoming and above all obsessed with this new undertaking.

Seville has moved past tapas, and for guests trying to get pleasure from vibrant, sociable and memorable eating, the unique Ricca Pizzería omakase bar presents 8 fortunate company one thing fairly extraordinary.

Sitting on the omakase bar the night begins with a refreshing spritz, and an opportunity to greet your fellow diners. The crew is massively enthusiastic, and the cooks swiftly reveal their dedication to perfecting the artwork of pizza-making. The menu foregoes pasta choices however presents a tantalizing array of handmade starters (Prima della Pizza), together with freshly ready courgette with cheese, baked earlier than your eyes within the pizza oven, and Almadraba tuna tartar with truffle.

Tasting Expertise

Then comes the pizzas. The great thing about a tasting expertise is that one can savour a slice of a number of pizzas, every refined and chic. This new omakase-style pizza bar, actually elevates pizza to a gastronomic expertise and the cooks are storytellers, sharing their anecdotes and fervour for his or her creations asx they knead dough, add the toppings and dextrously carry the pizzas to the oven on lengthy pizza oven paddles.

The restaurant has a robust dedication to authenticity, following the notion of ‘La Pizza è Italiana,’ utilizing solely elements imported from Italy to create conventional pizzas which can be baked in ovens made by Valoriani, from Figline Valdarno, in Florence.

Along with the omakase bar, the restaurant presents company the chance to get pleasure from pizzas with family and friends, which can be based mostly upon the Neapolitan and Roman types.

Throughout our night the cooks had been explaining how they’ve honed their recipes and cooking strategies to not solely scrumptious pizzas, but in addition ones which can be mild and digestible. Every pizza was surprisingly mild and layered with flavours.

The expertise is undoubtedly sociable and fascinating, in addition to entertaining because the cooks put together every pizza earlier than our eyes, sharing their ardour for the artwork of pizza-making and providing insights into the inventive course of behind every dish.

To enhance the beautiful pizzas, Ricca presents a powerful collection of Italian wines and bubbles for pairing on the pizza-tasting bar.

Ricca Pizzería, Sevilla is a brand new, immersive expertise that not solely celebrates the essence of Italian culinary custom however elevates it with a recent, progressive strategy that creates a unprecedented night.