This month, Ferrari is opening Cavallino, a reimagining of the iconic trattoria in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region by chef Massimo Bottura and designer India Mahdavi
| Photographed by Danilo ScarpatiEnzo Ferrari, the founder of the Ferrari sports car brand and Formula 1 racing team, was a disciplined man who liked his routines. The former race car driver turned Italian industrialist rarely left his home region of Emilia-Romagna. Most days you could set your watch by his arrival for lunch at Ristorante Cavallino, a modest company-owned trattoria across from the Ferrari factory in Maranello, named for the prancing horse logo on the cars he produced.
From the 1950s until his death in 1988, Enzo held court at the restaurant in his private room, hosting business banquets and post-race debriefings with his Formula 1 drivers. Hollywood stars, heads of state and other VIPs who were in town to collect their new cars would also stop in for a meal with, as Enzo was known by his Formula 1 Scuderia racing team. A bottle of local Lambrusco was always on ice.
“For my father, every meeting, with any person…would end with lunch or dinner at Cavallino,” says Enzo’s son, Piero, who began working alongside his father around 1965 and is now vice chairman at Ferrari. After Enzo’s death, the restaurant remained a pilgrimage site for Ferrari fanatics, serving its simple regional cooking—tortellini, lasagna, zampone—among an overabundance of signed helmets, driver headshots and other Formula 1 keepsakes. It shut down in late 2019.
This summer, Cavallino reopens as a destination for contemporary design and gastronomy. Its once cluttered dining rooms have been reimagined by Parisian architect and designer India Mahdavi, its menu remastered by Emilia-Romagna’s best-known avant-garde chef, Massimo Bottura, of the three-Michelin-starred Osteria Francescana in neighboring Modena.
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