Discover Spaghetti & Mandolino

They say that Italians are the only ones who are able to talk about food with great love, seriousness and enthusiasm; that they organise dinners, lunches with friends, convivial situations to enjoy the pleasure of food with loved ones and discuss, among other things, other food, extraordinary products they have tried, a particularly refined wine that has aroused an emotion. Spaghetti & Mandolino was born just like this, in front of a plate of homemade gnocchi in the kitchen of a journalist friend specialising in food (the person who suggested the name), combining passion and technology, good taste and the desire to do something extraordinary, in a field in which we are world famous. Let me introduce myself, I am Fabio De Vecchi, CEO of the Gruppo Volta communication agency.

Spaghetti & Mandolino (or simply Spaghetti for everyone within the project) was born on 3 November 2015. The mission pursued since that day has been to be antagonists of standards, to go against the tide: to promote Italian food and wine culture starting from the small great interpreters of beauty at the table, composing a storytelling applied to the products of the earth and man's creativity, satisfying every day people who wanted to bring that particular product or that particular wine to their table.

The search is the beginning of this adventure. Our expert selectors travel around Italy every day to passionately seek out local producers of excellence. Cheese factories, charcuterie factories, wineries, pasta factories, producers of unique, certified and multi-awarded delicacies: real treasures set in our Peninsula between seas and mountains and in the most remote streets of villages and countryside. All this with the mission of enhancing the true Italian food and wine culture, with a special focus on farmers, on young agricultural entrepreneurs who want to tell the story of their relationship with their land of origin and the sacrifice for having chosen to produce true specialities or recovered unique rarities.

Once a manufacturer is discovered, its products are carefully evaluated and selected. As you can see, every product you find on this site will never be a product you will find in large-scale distribution. Often they are products of limited availability, with small production volumes: an Alpine cheese or one matured in a cave, a wine aged in barriques for years, a world-famous cured meat product processed according to traditions that have now almost disappeared. The guarantee of quality is twofold: towards you, because we dedicate delicacies that are almost unobtainable and difficult to find; towards the local producer, who will never find himself alongside industrial brands and distributed on the anonymous and debasing circuits of large-scale distribution. The criteria by which we evaluate and select each product are naturalness, authenticity of ingredients and raw materials, pleasantness, and the story that that particular product has to tell through its flavour.

Once the most deserving and coveted products have been selected, they are placed on Spaghetti & Mandolino and made available for you to purchase online. But it is not, in reality, a simple purchase: choosing to receive these excellences at home means getting to know such peculiarities that you might never have encountered. In one click you can buy typical products from faraway regions and have them on your table after a long journey, making you wait only a few days for delivery. The love, dedication, stubbornness and constancy of these producers who create works of art deserve your patience in waiting for them. They have taken decades, sometimes centuries, to perfect the production and processing. Delivery can take from two to eight days, the reason being that the preparation of the order requires care and precision; but above all, as it is not an assembly line, production is tailor-made, at the time of your order.

We come from the city of love, Verona. We started from what was a small warehouse and now our warehouse is about 500 square metres dedicated entirely to the products that we then ship to you. An ideal environment for storing both food products and wines, also because we have a lot of valuable wines. We try to tell ourselves often: for us it is an honour to be able to bring you our dream, that of putting the best of Italian typicality in our boxes. Every day we can do it, and we will always do it in the best possible way.