Davide Oldani

Davide Oldani, in fact, creator of pop cuisine - high quality and accessibility - opened in 2003 his restaurant, the D'O, in Cornaredo, in the province of Milan, his home country. After a year of activity, the most authoritative gastronomic guides count him among the great chefs of Italian cuisine. The experiences before the opening of the D'O, had seen him alongside Gualtiero Marchesi, Albert Roux, Alain Ducasse, Pierre Hermé. In December 2008 he received the Ambrogino d'oro from the Municipality of Milan. In November 2013 he was invited to Harvard to share his entrepreneurial experience following a case history of his restaurant published in the Harvard Business School Review: the university economists have defined its approach and its organization to work applicable to different categories and not only to catering. In March 2015 he also gave a lecture at the Paris Business University HEC.In May 2014 he saw the birth of the Davide Oldani Café - in the new Luxury Square in an area of Milan’s Malpensa Airport. He was nominated Ambassador EXPO 2015 and in the same year he was called to participate as speaker at the World Business Forum in Milan. In 2016 he inaugurated his new D'O, an evolution of the previous one, in order to create a "bigger" kitchen, able to confront other kitchens in our country and beyond. In the summer of the same year he was appointed by CONI Food & Sport Ambassador and called as chef at Casa Italia for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.