Stalwart of the Manchester food scene, Salvi’s owner and Festa Italiana boss Maurizio Cecco has launched a brand-new podcast Becoming a Manc.
The podcast takes a sneak peek behind the scenes of the hospitality industry with a series of honest and open conversations with the owners of some of the city’s best concepts, brands, and venues.
Manchester is known for its thriving food and drink scene with new concepts opening up and expanding in all corners of the city and its suburbs.
Becoming a Manc will aim to help us understand where the concepts come from, the journey of the people who created them, the passion and hard work that has been poured into them to get to the point where they are, and the massive obstacles that have been overcome for them to be accepted in Manchester and survive in such a competitive industry – as Maurizio says: “In Manchester it’s raining all the time. If you stop, you get wet. If you run, it’s fine.”
The first three-episode mini-series is out now and sees Maurizio talking with Marcello Distefano, managing director of one of the UK’s largest family-owned restaurant groups San Carlo, Claudio Ribeiro, founder of the ever-popular brunch spot Federal Cafe, and one half of the brother-sister duo behind modern Chinese takeaway concept blending eastern and western influences Salt & Pepper, Cash Tao.
Becoming a Manc is available on Spotify, Apple and Youtube.
