Restaurant owner and chef Alberto Noriega has poured his heart and soul into the reopening of Grano. The popular Italian pop-up has had many homes over the years including The Boardroom, Number Fifty, To The Moon and a brief stint at the Bristol Old Vic, but last October, Alberto told me how emotional he felt also finding a permanent home.
As fate would have it, Alberto and his team are returning to the place where Grano first began back in 2018 after Glitch moved into a bigger salon space on the other side of Old Market Street. When I spoke to Alberto just before Christmas, he told me he'd been working non-stop, with just Christmas Day as a break, to open the restaurant on December 28.
As the rain beat down one lunchtime across a very wet Old Market, I took respite in the newly opened restaurant seeking warmth from a bowl of pasta. Even in the middle of the week as the weather took a turn, there was a mellow buzz about the restaurant.
