Tutti a Tavola, the warehouse edition, is back. Salt Meats Cheese will once again transform a corner of its Alexandria warehouse for this one-off dining experience helmed by Massimo Mele on April 17 from 6.30pm.

The famed chef has written a four-course menu of authentic Italian street food that includes wine and a welcome cocktail all for $119 per person.

The pop-up restaurant will occupy a corner of the larder adjacent to the new Salt Meats Cheese 'Pizza Box', the new perma pop-up pizzeria housed in a repurposed shipping container.

Mele says the menu for the shared feast will be easier to define by what it isn't rather than what it is. He says he has written the menu as an ode to the food of his childhood.

"When some people think 'Italian food' they think spaghetti and meatballs. We are here to demonstrate that spaghetti and meatballs is not the Holy Grail. What I want to do is introduce dishes that showcase the diversity of Italian food," he says.

This month's Roman Street Food theme will feature time-tested Roman recipes served on a long table that aims to replicate the colour and chaos of an Italian feast. Highlights include antipasti of pizza with potatoes, garlic and rosemary, baked semolina gnocchi with pecorino cheese, veal saltimbocca with crispy sage and pancetta, and fresh calamari fritti with lemon and rocket. There will also be a shoulder of lamb cooked in Salt Meats Cheese's new secret weapon - the wood-fired oven - and a homemade strozzapretti pasta with oxtail and celery ragu and sauce cooked in front of the guests. Sweet tooths will be kept happy with rum baba for dessert.   

Mele says what he loves about collaborating with Salt Meats Cheese is the theatre involved in orchestrating events within the 750sqm larder. "All these guests rock up. They don't know each other. They come and watch us make fresh pasta and they make new friends around the table because it's informal and friendly," he says.

"When you are cooking in front of people around a shared table, it's very intimate. It's for people hungering for proper Italian food, who want to chat in a relaxed, friendly environment and enjoy food made to share," he says.

Bookings essential: http://www.saltmeatscheese.com.au/event/tutti-a-tavola-roman-edition/ 

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