The Bar Journal

Wine, cicchetti and cocktails… Can there be a more enticing combination to forget all about January’s detox and continue the joys of the festive season?

Authentic Italian food, plenty of wine by the glass and exquisite cocktails are coming to number 257 on Chelsea’s King’s Road. BAR8 at GASTROVINO, a collaboration between Italian spirits expert Giuseppe Gallo and Made in Italy group, will open in January 2016 with a promise to bring the best of Italian delicacies to London.

A gastro wine bar on the ground floor – GASTROVINO – will offer a variety of 20 different wines by the glass with each glass representing a different region of Italy. The wines will rotate every week, with five glasses per week, allowing customers to take a flavoursome journey across the country.

The wine prices at GASTROVINO will be split into three categories: fragrant wine (£4/glass), unusual (£5) and complex (£6).

Italian cicchetti will be served along with the wines. Andrea Pesenti (previously of Mele & Pere in Soho) has designed the menu including mouth-watering homemade Burrata with confit cherry tomatoes, (£8). Puntarelle salad with anchovies and bottarga di muggine (£5), grilled Octopus with salsa verde (£6), Pecorino Romano cheese cubes (£2.50), Arancini rice balls (£4) and other delicious chicchetti will also be on offer, as well as Sea bass carpaccio marinated with bergamot and other signature dishes.

Giuseppe, a well-known authority on Italian spirits, will bring his expertise of Italian drinking culture to BAR8, an intimate Vermouth & Amaro bar downstairs at GASTROVINO. He has partnered up with award-winning mixologist Daniele Gentili (previously of Demon, Wise & Partners) to create 8 cocktails at £8.88 each that will be based on Vermouth or Amaro.

Tricolore (Micro basil gin, Americano Gancia, MARTINI Ambrato vermouth and pistachio) or the Monalisa (Grey Goose La Poire, Rhubarb and Moscato wine with parmigiano chips) and AMAR8 (Tagliatella Nardini, Averna, Cynar and Strega served with torrone/nougat) cocktails will showcase the largest vintage and modern collection of Vermouth and Amaro in the world with exclusive offers such as Amaro Cora, 1960c, Cynar 70proof, Braulio Riserva, Martini Riserva Vermouth Di Torino and Americano Gancia. BAR8 will be the very first of its kind.

“We aim to be a destination place where people can enjoy a good glass of wine, snack on simple but genuine food and finish the evening with lots of delicious cocktails prepared by our gifted bartenders,” said Giuseppe Gallo, Bar8 at GASTROVINO co-owner.
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Opening hours: Seven days per week from 12 to midnight
Address: 257 King’s Road, SW3 5EL
Capacity: GASTROVINO – 50 seats, BAR8 – 28
Manager: Daniele Gentili
Executive Chef: Andrea Pesenti
More info please contact:
GIUSEPPE GALLO
+44 (0) 7971 508476
salute@www.italspirits.com