Meet our chef
The man behind the pasta
fig. 01 — La cucina, VERA · Porto
"We cook the food we grew up with, and nothing leaves the pass that we wouldn't serve our own family.
Salvatore Monteli trained in Italy and earned two Michelin stars cooking in kitchens across the world. At VERA he keeps it quiet and exacting: pasta rolled each morning, ragùs left to their own time, nothing frozen, nothing rushed.
Salvatore Monteli
Provenienza: Italia
Riconoscimenti: Two Michelin Stars
In Cucina: Australia · Canada · United States
A cuisine of intuition and patience, where tradition is the starting point, never the ceiling.
Salvatore Monteli is an Italian chef with two Michelin stars to his name and a career that has crossed the world — kitchens in Australia, Canada and the United States among them. Everywhere he cooked, he carried the same thing with him: the Italian food he grew up with.
At VERA he cooks the Italy he knows — slow ragùs, hand-rolled pasta, bread fried to order, dishes that taste of somewhere specific. The produce is sourced from Italy, and a few modern ideas do the rest: a contemporary voice, an honest accent.
The two stars are real, but they live in the food rather than on the wall. You'll taste it long before he'd ever mention it.
La squadra
The chef and the brigade who cook the menu every service the people behind every plate.
Fatto a mano, come è sempre stato
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Made by hand, the way it always was
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Fatto a mano, come è sempre stato - Made by hand, the way it always was -
An honest, generous cuisine, Italian at heart, Porto in spirit.
