For all Italians with a sweet tooth: la Gambero Rosso guide "Pastry chefs and pastry shops 2020", a bible of gluttony that traces an ideal path of sweetness throughout the boot. If you want to go without fail, let's say right away that it is Lombardy, the Italian region of pastry excellence: with six brands it leads the national ranking of the best pastry shops followed by Campania (5), and then by Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio and Sicily with 2, Tuscany and Trentino-Alto Adige with 1.
And the Italian number one also operates in Lombardy, the master of masters, the international authority of Italian excellence, the great Igino Massari which with its Pasticceria Veneto in Via Salvo D'Acquisto in Brescia, it has held the first position in the standings for years. Yours is not a pastry shop, it is a temple of the art of pastry from which real masterpieces come out: biscuits and mignons, impeccable single portions, sideboard and fridge cakes, chocolate shops, party sweets, panettone and other leavened.
Like every year, the Gambero Rosso Guide assigns special awards that reward innovations in a sector that has experienced great innovative ferment in recent years.
The award Emerging Pastry Chef 2020 is been assigned to Marco Battaglia and Lavinia Franco di Marlà in Milan.
The Novelty of the Year is Harry's Pasticceria in Trieste
La The best savory pastry shop is Bompiani in Rome
For the third year, a final section is dedicated to the Best Pastry Chefs.
As for the ranking of the pastry shops awarded with the Three cakes, the highest recognition, dominated as for a long time now by Igino Massari, we find in second position Alessandro Dalmasso in Avigliana [TO], president for Italy of the Club coupe du monde de la Patisserie. On the the third podium goes up to Luigi Biasetto from Padua, Giuseppe Manilia from Maison Manilia Montesano Sulla Marcellana [SA], Pietro Macellaro's Pasticceria Agricola Cilentana from Piaggine [SA].
Followed by Besuschio in Abbiategrasso [MI], Gino Fabbri Pastry Chef in Bologna, Pasquale Marigliano in Nola [NA], Sal De Riso in Costa d'Amalfi Minori [SA], Acherer Patisserie Blumen in Brunico/Bruneck [BZ], Bompiani in Rome, Ernst K Knam in Milan, New World in Prato.
Still with three cakes follow the leading group Cortinovis Ranica [BG], Dolce Reale Montichiari [BS], Fabrizio Galla San Sebastiano Da Po [TO], Belle Hélène Tarquinia [VT], Pasticceria Marisa San Giorgio delle Pertiche [PD], Pepe Master Confectioner Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino [SA], Rinaldini Rimini, Roberto Erbusco Confectionery [BS], Sciampagna Marineo [PA], Caffè Sicilia Noto [SR].
Overall, the Italian pastry shop is increasingly broadening its horizons. It is not just a matter of restyling the establishments that aim at enhancing the products, but the new phenomenon is the ever greater attention from the luxury hotel industry. Hotels with pastry shops are in fact the trend of the moment: boutiques aiming for an excellent proposal that selects the best raw materials from all over the world, without however forgetting the local area.
