Wikimania 2016 bids/Esino Lario/Food

Food makes an event. Wikimania Esino Lario relies first of all on all local restaurants, bars and food shops. The number of seats available is increased during Wikimania by using other buildings made available by different private owners. We have also considered the use of a tensile structure, a catering service, and the involvement of street food vendors (which is quite a big fashionable thing right now). Esino will allow to provide participants with varied and interesting culinary experiences. Tommaso Fara will be our food curator, checking and coordinating the menus (biographies of the team).

Cuisine

The Esino Lario traditional local cuisine is a simple mountain cuisine, based essentially on polenta, potatoes, dairy products, nuts and pork meat, with some specialities such as the ravioli called patole or the simple dessert called "paradell". More broadly the traditional cuisine of Lake Como, Valsassina and Valtellina includes specialities such as fish from the lake (i.e. lavarelli - whitefish, pesce persico - perch) on a white risotto, pizzoccheri and grilled pork (ribs and sausages). The local cuisine is today always mixed with Italian cuisine coming from different regions and which can satisfy also vegetarian (V) and vegan diets (VV) and include meat dishes which do not include pork. We will concentrate on Italian and mountain food for two reasons: because we are in Italy and in the mountain, and because this is the kind of food local providers are more accustomed to preparing.

Meals

Breakfast will be provided by hotels, restaurants and bars; we are considering the idea of providing apartments with a welcome box which includes our welcome kit, information about the apartment and the basics to have breakfast. Differently from the Italian tradition, lunch will be a lighter meal than dinner; in Italy we would say that it is mainly focussed on the "primo" (what in Italy is the first course); there will mainly be pasta, pasta and rice salads, salads, vegetables, cheese and bread, and of course fresh fruits. Dinner will be on the "secondo" (what in Italy is the second course or main course); there will be mainly traditional cuisine, meat, soups with beans, stuffed vegetables and of course vegetables and bread, and of course a dessert. Pizza will be available in two restaurants and sandwiches in bars. We will discuss with restaurants and the catering about the menus to make sure there is variety.

We are aware that non-Italians get a little tired of pasta after few days (even if it has different shapes and sauces, people just see it as a lot of pasta pasta pasta), so we would like to allow them to taste some specialties – also vegetarian (V) and vegan (VV), which will be selected according to seasonal-local-available ingredients and the weather – they might not know or they might have experienced differently: for example polenta (VV), pizzoccheri (V), panzanella (VV), zuppe di legumi (VV), minestrone (VV), caprese (V), prosciutto e melone, panettone gastronomico, bluefish (such as sardines, anchovies and mullet) pollo alla cacciatora, vitello tonnato, bruschetta (VV), risotto (V), farinata (VV), focaccia (VV), piadine, tramezzini, gnocchi (VV), ravioli (V), parmigiana (V), fiori di zucca ripeni (V), peperonata (VV), caponata (VV), carciofi alla zudìa (VV), cheese with honey and jams (V), verdure sott'olio (VV), pasta al forno (V); and desserts (of course all vegetarian, and some of them also vegan) such as sorbetti (VV) e gelati, panettone and pandoro, cantucci con il vin santo, panna cotta, tiramisù, gelatine di mele cotogne (VV), semifreddo, granita (VV), torrone, affogato al caffè, zabaione, bunet, panforte, confetti (VV), salame al cioccolato, pesche al vino, gianduiotti, croccante (VV), frutta di pasta di mandorle (VV).

Special diets

To satisfy different tastes and diet, during Wikimania we will focus broadly on Italian cuisine with a specific attention for vegetarian and vegan food. We will not ask all restaurants to use vegan dairy or to cook specialities from other countries because they are not necessarily accustomed to those menus and ingredients; vegetarian and vegan food is already part of our Mediterranean cuisine and we will focus on it. The restaurants in Esino Lario – and the available food market - is not equipped to produce a properly Kosher food (we are also unable to manage two kitchens for the tensile structure and the catering), but we hope vegan food can maybe provide an adequate compromise. Food will be labelled and one restaurant will focus on specific dietary needs. We can organize without specific problems to have soya milk available. Local cuisine will be served in particular in two specific restaurants.

Restaurants and bars

Image	Restaurant/shop	Location	Typology	Seats	Bar	Restaurant	Pizza	Sandwiches	Ice cream	Drinks	Prize range	Note
	Ristorante La Montanina and Rosa delle Alpi	Centre, square area.	Restaurant and bar.	Around 150.	X	X			box	X
	Ristorante pizzeria Centrale	Centre, garden area.	Restaurant and bar.	Around 150.	X	X	X	X	box	X
	Ristorante pizzeria Oasi	Centre, square area.	Restaurant and bar.	Around 120.	X	X	X	X	box	X
	Bar ristorante 58	Villa Clotilde area	Restaurant and bar.	Around 100	X	X	X	X	box	X
	Ristorante La Lucciola	Uphill.	Restaurant and bar.	Around 100.	X	X		X	box	X
	Ristorante Santa Maria	Uphill.	Restaurant and bar.	30 (+ large outdoor).	X	X		X	box	X
	Ristorante Cacciatori	Ortanella	Restaurant and bar.	Around 120.	X	X		X	box	X
	Ristorante agriturismo Ortanella	Ortanella	Restaurant and bar.	Around 50.	X				box	X
	Ristorante Cainallo	Cainallo	Restaurant and bar.	Around 100.	X	X		X	box	X
	Bar La Sosta	Centre, square area.	Bar.	Around 50.		X		X	box	X
	Bar Tabaccheria Lisa	Centre, square area.	Bar.	Around 20.	X				box	X
	Gelateria da Eli	Centre, garden area.	Food shop with artisanal ice cream.	2 benches outside.					X
	Alimentari Virginia	Centre, garden area.	Food shop.	None			X	X	box	X
	Mini Market Chicco & Nadia	Centre, square area.	Food shop.	None			X	X	box	X
	Panificio Pietro Pensa	Centre, garden area.	Food shop with bakery.	None			X	X	box	X
	Catering service.	Centre, square area in the tensile structure.	Temporary service.	500 seats.
	Street Food	Centre, church area.	Temporary service.	None	X		X	X	X	X
	Accommodation with kitchen	Esino Lario.	DIY solution	From 4 to 50 people (a dorm has an equipped kitchen from groups)

Restaurants outside Esino Lario

Restaurant/shop	Location	Seats	Prize range	Note
Al Terrazzo Eremo Gaudio	Perledo	40	25 euro
Crotto del Meo	Perledo	60	22 euro
Ristorante Del Sole	Varenna	120	27,50 euro
Ristorante Il Cavatappi	Varenna	20	27,50 euro
Ristorante La Contrada Villa Cipressi	Varenna	70	25 euro
Ristorante Cavallino	Varenna	40	25 euro
Ristorante Crotto di Pino	Varenna	50	35 euro
Ristorante Gourmet Royal Victoria	Varenna	300	40 euro
Ristorante Nuova Isola	Varenna	30	30 euro
Ristorante La vista Milano	Varenna	55	-
Ristorante Olivedo	Varenna	40	30 euro
Ristorante Quatro Pass	Varenna	-	30 euro
Ristorante Victoria Grill	Varenna	100	25 euro
Ristorante Varennamonamour	Varenna	45	30 euro
Ristorante Moncodeno	Varenna	55	22 euro

Crowd management for the food

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The tensile structure with the catering is necessary to manage lunch (this assures that lunch is provided very closed to the location of the venues), but we envision to avoid catering for the evening to provide variety, to limit the costs for participants and to take advantage of the existing restaurants.
We expect to use tickets to manage lunch and dinner. At the moment the hypothesis is to assign lunch seats randomly (except for special diets) and to implement a reservation system for the evening with also thematic dinners planned before the event.

Site	Breakfast	Lunch	Coffee break (always open)	Dinner without catering (2 shifts)
Bar Ristorante Centrale	160	150		250
Ristorante albergo La Montanina e Rosa delle Alpi	160	150		250
Bar Oasi	150	120		200
Bar La Ruota	50	50
Bar La Sosta	100	50
Bar Lisa	60	30
Catering in the tensile structure		500	1000	no catering
La Lucciola (also accommodation)	100			100
Santa Maria (also accommodation)	30			30
Villa Rogo-Pime - has kitchen	70
Ristoro - has kitchen	50
Cacciatori	10			70
Cainallo	39			70
Varenna	30			70
Total	1009	1050	1000	1040

Please note that for breakfast there are also some B&B (which are not included above) and we are also considering to use welcome box (managed by the local food shops).

Management of the lunch and coffee breaks

Expense	Number	Days	Cost/Unit	Total in euro	Total in dollars
coffee breaks preconference	500	3	€ 5	€ 7.500	$ 10.293,67
coffee breaks conference	1.000	3	€ 5	€ 15.000	$ 20.587,35
catering lunch	500	3	€ 22	€ 33.000	$ 45.292,17
restaurant lunch (conference and preconference)	500	5	€ 10	€ 25.000	$ 34.312,25
Total amount planned in the estimated costs				€ 80.500	$ 110.485,45
			Currency	€ 1,00	$ 1,37