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They are real florists who have also opened their doors to kitchen use, becoming welcoming bistroswelcoming from dawn until late evening. They are ancient lemon groves and seventeenth-century Italian gardens, which have explored new functions, placing themselves as an element of attraction for the public of luxurious relais and renowned museums. They are new and old greenhouses that, through their own architectural structure adapted to use, have become a concrete manifestation of a back to naturenot just on the surface.
A Flower Power that is not only the overflowing and psychedelic “flower power” of the hippie movement, but an evident and real reference to what are the watchwords of the most acclaimed trends today. eco-sustainability, seasonality and zero kilometer of modern catering.
A reference first of all visual to the territory, in an explosion of leaves and colors, from the walls to the mise en place. With practical implications, which have in the gardening their core: from the laboratory for composing a bouquet to take home, to the integration project that leads to the cultivation of a multi-ethnic garden with seeds that come from all over the world.
© Bianchi Caffè Florist
We have thus crossed Italy from North to South, from the historic venues that have “set the trend” to the most recent inaugurations, between cheap taverns and starred restaurantsand savoring from healthy vegetarian cuisine to gourmet cuisine, to choose ten addresses where “green” is much more than a trend.
They are bistros, restaurants and cocktail bars that are ‘plant-based’ in their architecture and design, even before their gastronomic offering, thanks to a widespread use of plants and flowers in one’s environments. In some cases, places that live in the greenery in perfect continuity between internal and external environments; in others, an oasis for a deep breath in metropolitan cities increasingly dominated by chaos and smog. After all, if the personal experience of quiet that each one can derive from it were not enough, the experts are here to reiterate the concept: these natural environments give us pleasure, not only aesthetic, but also sensorial, they have a well-being effect and a calming power on our stress levels.
Source: living.corriere.it
