POV: You're Eating @ Gucci Osteria With Gucci Mane
BY TAMARA PALMER
The most fun and unpretentious high-end tasting menu I’ve experienced thus far is the seven-course Under the Palms menu at Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, which is a Michelin-starred restaurant located on the roof of the Gucci store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. This restaurant doesn’t need to be as solid as it is to be popular, and I didn’t expect to be so delighted. At $220 per person, it is a serious investment that I have rarely spent on dinner, but I would love to do it again one day.
As you’re about to see, the menu is very playful, so I thought it would be a good idea to pull a bit of a cheeky art prank there: I brought Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane’s autobiography with me so that I could have dinner with Gucci at Gucci. Here’s how the evening unfolded:
We arrived early to walk through the Gucci store and preview the place settings
Gucci place settings
Gucci Osteria entrance
Gucci Osteria menu and Gucci Mane book
Gucci Mane at Gucci Osteria
So Icey! Coffy with Milk: Naakia Coffy gin, nigori sake, Pio Cesare vermouth, Luxardo Blanco
Amuse bouche: cheese tarts
Butter with bee pollen
Gucci honeybee
Fruited bread
Spring Is Coming: white asparagus, burrata, buckwheat, seaweed, fashioned in the shape of Walt Disney Hall
Insalata di mare
Risotto Camouflaged as Pizza: tomato, basil, stracciatella
The most popular dish: tortellini in Parmeggiano-Reggiano sauce
Note the tortellini drawing at the bottom of the bowl
Cod as Milanese with farmer’s tomato terrine, a fancy fish stick
Mini Me box
Mini Me: beef ribeye, cotechino, salsa verde, balsamic mayonnaise
Coconut tapioca
Coconut tapioca up close
Charley Marley: chocolate, hazelnut and wild rice
Charley Marley up close
Mignardises
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane and a Gucci nail polish purchase
Hot Gucci nights