BOLD FLAVOURS
The Sauce
OF SUCCESS
Engaging in conversation while tucking in to a steaming hot plate of gnocci at the Villa Cesare is no easy feat. There doesn’t seem time to speak between mouthfuls of this rustic Italian staple. This is Italian cuisine as you have never had it before. The sauce so wholesome and simple that you can almost taste the earth the produce is grown in. It was this dish that inspired me to discover more about the latest addition to Lustica Bay’s growing promenade. Today, Tony and the Haddad family own 16
the source, which, in this case, happens to be
restaurants in Europe and North Africa, along
the sauce! It was in the copper pots of Tony’s
with 2 cheese factories, producing over 50
‘Nonna Gigi’ that the foundation was laid
different types of cheese!
for what would become a successful, family-
In order to fully understand the journey that led to this success, we must travel back to
48
owned Italian franchise.
