CULINARY CROSSROADS: TORRE RESTAURANT HOSTS THIRD CHEF COLLABORATION

Fondazione Prada's Torre Restaurant welcomes Ristorante Giglio's culinary team on May 22 for the third Torre&Friends chef collaboration dinner event.

image of the third Torre&Friends culinary event at Fondazione Prada's Torre Restaurant. On May 22, the resident chef Lorenzo Lunghi will collaborate with three guest chefs from Ristorante Giglio in Lucca—Benedetto Rullo, Lorenzo Stefanini, and Stefano Terigi. The event features a specially created menu showcasing innovative interpretations of quality ingredients. The series aims to foster creative exchange between different culinary approaches, offering guests a unique dining experience that combines technical precision with creative expression.
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The Torre Restaurant at Fondazione Prada will welcome the culinary team from Ristorante Giglio for a special dinner event on Thursday, May 22. This marks the third installment of the Torre&Friends series, a collaborative dining concept developed with resident chef Lorenzo Lunghi.

Benedetto Rullo, Lorenzo Stefanini, and Stefano Terigi—the trio behind Lucca's acclaimed Ristorante Giglio—will join forces with Lunghi to create a distinctive dining experience. The evening showcases Giglio's approach to gastronomy, where technical precision meets creative instinct through deliberate, meaningful culinary techniques.

Guests will discover a newly crafted menu featuring ingredients presented through sharp, playful, and uninhibited interpretations designed to surprise the palate.

This ongoing series represents an opportunity for culinary exchange and discovery, establishing cooking as a shared language and a space for exploration and creative cross-pollination between respected chefs.

The Torre&Friends format continues to foster dialogue between different culinary perspectives, inviting diners to experience the intersection of these distinctive cooking philosophies firsthand.

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