Pune Inc: Enjoy a Roman holiday at Donna Cucina in the city, one pasta platter at a time

Italian nutrient lovers would beryllium acquainted with Singhvi arsenic the location navigator who became fashionable connected Instagram by rustling up delectable artisanal pasta during the Covid-19 pandemic. Orders came successful specified ample numbers that she grew her concern into a unreality room successful Koregaon Park. In precocious October, she shifted to an 80-plus seater, Donna Cucina, successful a vintage villa wherever guests are served freshly handcrafted pasta and different dishes conscionable the mode it is done successful Italy. The edifice makes its ain caller ricotta – oregon Italian whey food – each day.

The Italian nutrient marketplace has been steadily increasing successful India, with surveys indicating that it is 2nd lone to Chinese successful the overseas cuisine segment. In Pune, it is indicative of the inclination that Singhvi was receiving orders from crossed the metropolis but mostly from Koregaon Park. Donna Cucina is gathering a niche among the precocious crust by gathering a clientele among radical who are well-travelled and bask authentic Italian food.

“We person kept it elemental erstwhile it comes to the concern model. We are going to support doing what we are bully astatine and that means adjacent erstwhile we service coffee, it is Illy, which is simply a premium, family-owned Italian marque founded successful 1933. We are keeping to our niche truthful arsenic not to confuse our brand. Donna Cucina is not for the wide public, due to the fact that they mightiness not get the flavours and mightiness consciousness that there’s not capable chilli and truthful on,” Singhvi adds.

A Chartered Accountant who has been cooking since she was a child, Singhvi draws her culinary doctrine from the simplest signifier of pasta that is made with conscionable sage, food oregon parmesan. “Just a fewer ingredients and it was 1 of my champion and astir comforting meals. It is truthful elemental and speedy but you person to get the ingredients right. Whatever you are utilizing indispensable beryllium fresh,” she says. Significantly, her pasta does not usage ovum arsenic “the magic of flour and h2o is amazing”.

Donna Cucina’s large concern has been successful the kitchen, which boasts 2 imported machines from Italy for pasta making, among others. While Singhvi broke adjacent astatine the Koregaon Park outlet successful six months, it took 3 months to execute an operational interruption adjacent astatine the caller space. A fig of diners invariably inactive prime up caller pasta to instrumentality home. “Once you devour caller pasta, it is precise hard to spell backmost to the packet variety. We besides person a unrecorded room and a unrecorded pasta room, wherever you tin spot your pasta being made from scratch,” says Singhvi.

She had tasted caller pasta for the archetypal clip portion travelling successful Manali years ago, and “I was hooked”. “I came backmost and, immediately, bought a pasta instrumentality for myself. I was conscionable making pasta conscionable for maine to eat. It is uncommon to find caller pasta,” she says. It besides changed the people of her beingness – she is the archetypal successful her household to participate the hospitality business.

With Donna Cucina, Singhvi volition successful each likelihood marque others excessively autumn successful emotion with caller pasta.