Enzo Fargione

Steve, Thank you for your list Chef Enzo Fargione Teatro Goldoni Chef Table @ Teatro Goldoni

Joe is the ultimate Gentleman. I have met him just about 3 years ago between a cigar, a pizza and a losing full house........ I have always admired his passion and his way to be intensely engaged while talking about food at any level Joe respects and admire hard work, excellence and the purity of food making and the food industry. He deserves all the attention and the admiration not only of the Post, but mostly ours Thank you Joe!! You are an outstanding example of what food passion is. And Thank you Don for giving us the perfect tool to interact and express ourselves, share ideas and speak our minds Chef Enzo Fargione Teatro Goldoni Restaurant

Mockery? I would call it sarcasm...that is who I am.......and NOla Caine is mostly welcome to come back to Teatro and I will personally greet the person and make sure will have a positive experience After all this is a forum where you can express yourself. I respect, but not necessarily agree with everything that people say. I accept it ........can you? Thanks for your imput Chef Enzo

Heheheheh....... Don what is it about you that always makes me smile? You Rock!!! Enzo

WOW!!!! What a day!!!!! I had friends, family and collegues texting me and calling me about this.........Berlusconi sent me a letter and the Pope his blessing, the Bertolli company wants me for its new ad campaing and the Italian Consorzio are now giving me a Laurea with honors I wonder what it would have happened if indeed some olive oil was spilled on someone suit? Let me make this easy for everyone: 1- Thanks to those who love and support the new Teatro Goldoni 2- I will instruct my servers to drizzle just a little bit of evoo on the fish they filet regardless if for Lunch or Dinner from now on 3- The chef table is a unique experience, a very personal one and cannot be compared to the restaurant itself 4- The restaurant for the past 12 months went through incredible changes and by doing so you please and disappoint 5- I would incourage those who like their meal customized to voice their requests before ordering as we do try to make everyone happy 6- For those who like to pass judgement about my work I say thank you for the constructive criticism, but do me a favor: you need to come in and have a meal before you voice your opinion 7- I can only say this: The chef table has hardly been reviewed by newspapers or the media, but the restaurant has in positive ways. We remain humble and very attentive about the quality and value of every meal that goes out to the dining room and I pride myself by doing so 8- The restaurant business is one of the hardest business out there and especially now with the current state of the economy. We are also humans and we can make occasional mistakes, but please if they happen gently point them out to us and give us a chance to put a smile back on your face because we, like you have expectations and bad days Thank you for all your support and as for NOLA CAINE.........well, sorry if few extra drops of olive oil will refrain you to explore better and future experiences at my restaurant or at the chef table: I was not aware untill now how difficult the olive oil free life is and I remain hopeful that in time you would be so kind and couragious to give us another try in our new carefully measured olive oil drizzled environment. After all the last thing I aim for is to create an absolute horror experience for my guests and friends Chef Enzo Fargione

Dear Pork Belly, I am very sorry you had such a negative experience at my restaurant. I indeed value your opinion and I thank you for your comments: I will try harder to please every single guest of mine It seems to me you had a poor night and though I don't think you had ordered the wrong items, maybe the menu per se was not detailed enough in its descriptions: the minestrone soup is supposed to be liquid for many reason and the puree of cannellini beans, once stirred with the soup would have given it the right consistency and texture. Yes , against my personal will the prices were marked a little higher for 3 days of the Inauguration period. For that I can only apologize. For the quality of the food, maybe you just did not like it or you were expecting something different. It seems like you had the opportunity to taste every single dish your party ordered. So I am not sure with what intent you had decided to have dinner with us. My mission is to make every single guests of mine happy and satisfied and it saddens me if they walk out of Teatro with a bad experience. I do value your opinion and I hope you would be gracious and brave enough to come and see me at Teatro and I will be mostly happy to make sure that your previous experience would turn into a bad memory only Thank you very much Pork Belly for your point of view and I remain hopeful to finally meet you when and if you will give me the chance to prove you what we really do here at Teatro Goldoni Chef Enzo Fargione

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the friends and guests who had the chance to dine with me at my chef table I truly appreciate all of your comments, kind words and support Mostly, it is great to see so many friends of DonRockwell.com taking the chance to try something new at Teatro and be surprised with the results. It is always nice when people understand the hard work that lies behind a 3 hours dining show To all of you a wonderful "Happy holidays" with the promise that I would work harder in the new year trying to leave a mark and to surprise you more and more with new altrnatives at the chef table. For some of you who might be curious to know what we serve and offer, here is a typical menu for the chef table........of course it varies all the time with no notice. This is a dinner not just for somebody, but for everybody............