Michelangelo

A one-man show, chef Michelangelo does it all – the shopping, the chopping, the table-waiting, the cooking, the sitting down with guests for a glass of wine while the pasta is boiling…it is, in fact, the equivalent of being invited over to a Sicilian chef’s house for dinner. There are things to know, of course: 1) there are only 14 chairs (everyone eats at a long table in front of the open kitchen) so reservations are mandatory; 2) Michelangelo chooses the menu (three courses, about €25, cash only), so you have to be somewhat adventurous; and 3) all the products – the olive oil, the wine (from €28 per bottle), the cheese – come from Sicily, so if there’s no more oregano the restaurant may suddenly close for a week while he goes to stock up.