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Honest and rustic Italian cooking with community at heart
The experienced team behind Pasta Loco, Pasta Ripiena and Bianchis promise their newest opening will be “focused on community support with a menu based on honest, rustic Italian cooking”.
Cotto from the Bianchis Group is located within what used to be Bar Ripiena and the unit next door on St Stephen’s Street.
A small daily changing menu will be inspired by classic Italian cooking “and created in a kitchen that’s dedicated to our ethos that good food and wine doesn’t have to be complicated”.
Cotto’s website calls it a “cosy little cantina… serving up classic old school cooking” – photo: Martin Booth
The Bianchis team says that “opening a new venue, in such strange times, has given (them) a new perspective on what’s important, Cotto reflects this”.
“We are retracing our love for food to the place where it all began; be that growing up here in Bristol with big family gatherings or sitting at Uncle Arnaldo’s table being fed his famous lasagne while we mimed, laughed, and connected all over our annual holiday to Lago di Como.”
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The team want to continue their commitment forged during the pandemic to helping feed those who need it most.
Cotto will be the first business among the Bianchi Group of restaurants “to really build on those foundations”.
Fifty pence of sales from items on the menu marked CCC, standing for Cotto Community Contribution, will go into a community contribution fund, with the venue also being used for a number of fundraising and networking events.
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“Say goodbye to Bar Ripiena… say hello to Cotto!” wrote the Cotto team on Instagram.
“Our newest venture focused on community support with a menu based on honest, rustic Italian cooking.
“We’ve expanded the site so we have much more room to fit you all in. We hope you love it as much as we do!”
Main photo: Bianchis Group
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