Cook like a chef

Author: Maya Kerthyasa
Photography: Teny Aghamalian

11:55AM, Jul 8, 2013

Artisanal spaghetti alert!  Lario International, importer of the
sort of high-end cult Italian products that have become a fetish
for our top chefs (Amedei chocolate and Fabbri pasta among them),
has today opened a retail showroom at its warehouse in Sydney's
Waterloo, and it's stocked with plenty of good stuff you won't find
anywhere else. 

"I have a certain amount of products that can't be put into the
main distribution channels because there's not enough availability,
so we decided to open a retail store for those really obscure and
not readily available kinds of products," says importer Gianmarco
Balestrini. 

Translation: nougat from Veneto, made by hand with wild honey from
the marshlands of Venice, ultra-premium extra-virgin olive oil from
the first press of a tiny Umbrian producer, a small-batch pistachio
paste from Bronte, and plenty more like it.  Drivers, start your
credit cards.  Lario Food & Wine Co.,
Unit 16/198-222 Young St, Waterloo, Sydney, NSW, (02) 9699
5600.