Gucci Osteria in Beverly Hills Just Earned a Michelin Star

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Today, the Michelin Guide awarded Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, a rooftop restaurant atop the brand’s Rodeo Drive store, a Michelin star. It’s an impressive accolade for the Beverly Hills eatery, run by young Italian chef Mattio Agazzi under the guidance of the famed Massimo Bottura. 

The restaurant serves up modern Italian fare made from local California ingredients. Some delectable dishes that caught the inspector’s eye? For starters, their insalata mare, which is a salad with sweet sea scallops, squid, and lobster, all dressed with olive oil, fresh horseradish, and shaved radish arranged like petals. Then, the “Risotto Camouflaged as Pizza”—rice adorned with a flavorful tomato puree, creamy stracciatella, and burnt caper dust that makes the dish taste like charred crust. (“The surface of the risotto was arranged like an abstract painting,” they noted. “The flavors were highly enjoyable, and the appearance was utterly creative.”) As for pasta, they loved the tortellini. For dessert, they called out the “Charley Marley”—chocolate ganache, hazelnuts, puffed wild rice, miso caramel and chocolate sorbet.

“Chef Massimo Bottura has put the talented Mattio Agazzi at the helm and the results are impressive indeed. This is cooking that is at once whimsical and grounded,” read the anonymous reviewers’ comments. Adds Agazzi: “It has been a very challenging time for the global hospitality industry, and we were forced to close after just a few weeks of opening, re-opening months later. The team, however, has remained focused, united and driven to create dishes of style and substance. We’re lucky to have some of the best ingredients in the world on our doorstep, and we love exploring Los Angeles and the great state of California,” he says.

Bottura said he was “emotional,” when he heard the news about his mentee’s success in a video shared with Vogue. “I was the happiest man in the world.”

Beverly Hills isn’t the only starry Gucci Osteria outpost: the original Florence location received the same honor in 2019. And while, sure, retail-restaurants aren’t exactly a novel concept, Gucci’s are the only ones with such universal critical acclaim.

Marco Bizzarri, CEO of the Italian fashion house, says that he likes to invest in individuals, which can lead to magical results. Friends with both Bottura and Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele, who oversees the visual direction of Gucci Osteria, he knew the two would create quite the fantastical collaboration. “The creativity, the passion, the authenticity—I knew Massimo was going to meet Alessandro and they were going to click immediately.”