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Maurizio Laureri began his
adventure of cooking classic Roman cuisine as a child helping his
mother, Clara, in the family kitchen over fifty years ago. He would
make miniature copies of the same family recipes that his mother
served to her large family every afternoon and evening.
“My mother used recipes that were developed over many decades
in our family,” states Maurizio. “Our meals were always
a surprise as she added her skills, adapting with fresh ingredients
or adding her own ideas for spices and sauces.”
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After serving as his mother’s apprentice in the kitchen,
the young Maurizio went to London where he brought his experience
to La Meridiana restaurant and then made his home in New
York City where he worked in Orsini, La Scala
and Cent’anni. He also worked as a consultant
for Italian restaurants who wanted to expand and upgrade their
menus. It was during this period that he met Tom McNamara who
operated a restaurant in the SOHO district, Central Falls.
Their early friendship would later result in Maurizio moving his
restaurant operations to Phuket, where he opened his Da
Maurizio Bar Ristorante as part of Tom’s
Baan Rim Pa group of restaurants.
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Such passion about food
and wine carried over to his famous “loft” parties in
Manhattan when he would cook six course dinners for friends. During
this time, he was catering on movie sets where he was known as
the “good mood chef” for his ability to alter the mood
of the cast by creating beautiful Italian lunches, sometimes for
a hundred people or more.
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“Over the past 20 years
, whether I’ve owned or managed restaurants or worked in other
fields, I have always traveled a great deal and eaten in the best
restaurants,” Maurizio remembers. “And often, I would
decide upon a holiday destination based on the restaurants and cuisine
available.”
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When he decided to combine
his lifetime of adventure with Italian foods in Maurizio’s
Family Recipes he invited his mother to Phuket to share her
knowledge of the regional cuisine responsible for making Da Maurizio
Bar Ristorante Phuket’s most distinctive and authentic
center of fine Italian food and wine.
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“My menu at Da Maurizio
Bar Ristorante has classic Italian cuisine as well as my family’s
recipes and my own personal innovations,” he explains. “What
I have created is a restaurant where I would want to come and enjoy
not only the best Italian cuisine but fine wine, good music and
the beauty of Patong Bay. And I want to share this with my many
friends and guests.”
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