Chef & Owner, D'O e OLMO Restaurant / San Pietro all'Olmo - Cornaredo (MI)

Davide Oldani, creator of pop cuisine - high quality and accessibility - opened his restaurant, D'O, in 2003 in Cornaredo, in the province of Milan, his home town. After one year in business, the most authoritative gastronomic guides count him among the great chefs of Italian cuisine.
Experiences prior to the opening of D'O, had seen him alongside Gualtiero Marchesi, Albert Roux, Alain Ducasse, Pierre Hermé.
In 2004, the Michelin Guide awarded it a star for the year 2005.
In December 2008, he received the Ambrogino d'oro from the City of Milan.
In November 2013 he was invited to Harvard to recount his entrepreneurial experience following a case history on his restaurant published in the Harvard Business School Revieweconomists at the university have defined its approach and organisation at work applicable to different categories and not only to catering.
In March 2015, he also lectured at theParisian Business University HEC.
May 2014 saw the birth of the Davide Oldani Café - in the new Piazza del lusso at Malpensa Airport in Milan.
He was appointed EXPO 2015 Ambassador and in the same year was invited to participate as a speaker at the World Business Forum in Milan.
He has published Cuoco andata e ritorno (2008), La mia cucina pop, L'arte di caramellare i sogni (2009), Pop. La nuova grande cucina italiana (2010), Il giusto e il gusto (2012), Storie di sport e cucina (2013), Chefacile (2013), Pop Food (2015), D'O eat better (2016), Le D'Onne lo sanno (2018), Mangia come parli (July 2020), Mangia come parli POP Rhapsody (November 2020), POP Food (2021) Feltrinelli paperback edition, Visioni POP (2023) Gribaudo.
He collaborated for 18 years with the monthly Italian Cuisine. He edited for some years, weekly, for Sport Week, a pop cookery and sports column, and wrote in the blog Chatting with gusto by IoDonna - the women's section of Corriere delle Sera.
In 2016, he inaugurated his new D'O, an evolution of the previous one, in order to create a 'bigger' kitchen, capable of comparing with other kitchens in our country and beyond. In the summer of the same year, he was appointed by the CONI Food & Sport Ambassador and called as chef at Casa Italia for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
In 2017 he began his radio adventure paired with Pier Luigi Pardo on the airwaves of Radio24 with the programme 'Mangia Come Parli'.
In November 2020, the Michelin Guide awarded it its second star for the year 2021 and the Michelin Green Star, a symbol of sustainability.
In May 2021, the L'Espresso gastronomic guide awarded it five hats.
In January 2022, admission into the prestigious guide Les Grandes Tables du Mondes.
In March 2023, he was appointed honorary president of the Le Soste guide.
November 2023 will see the opening of the OLMO Restaurant, located on the same square as the D'O, and named after the long-lived tree that has strong roots, firmly planted in the ground and growing upwards. It all coincides with one of our strongest thoughts... Earth to put your feet on and not just sky to put your dreams in!
In July 2024 Sport&Food Ambassador of Casa Italia at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In November 2024, the Michelin Guide awarded the Michelin Star 2025 to the OLMO Restaurant, one year after its opening.

His work as a designer, born from daily observation of the host, mirrors that of a cook: tables, chairs, plates, cutlery and glasses are POP-inspired: simple, functional, elegant.
The trade marks created for the design are: "IDish" - "Aces D'O" - "H2D'O" - "XFETTA" - "ACTIONS" - "WOO'D"
The new formats with: "FOO'D' - 'Davide Oldani Café' - 'CucinaPOP'..

THE POP CUISINE OF DAVIDE OLDANI
"My POP cuisine was born from the desire to combine the essential with the well-made, the good with the accessible, innovation with tradition. I am convinced that great Italian cuisine is great - not only for its variety and taste - but also for the possibility it offers to be constantly reinterpreted: I have done this with simplicity, giving value to all ingredients and making seasonality and high quality products two cornerstones. To these pivotal points I have added a principle that guides me in the preparation of each dish: the search for harmony in the balance of contrasts, which for me means not only a promise of sweet in the savoury and a 'memory' of savoury in the sweet, but the harmonious coexistence in each dish of everything that stimulates the palate: soft, crunchy, hot, cold, sweet, bitter..."
All this, for Davide Oldani, must find a composition in a cuisine that is light but tasty, healthy but varied, simple but surprising.
Complementing his idea of a pop kitchen are his passion and continuous research, his indispensable teamwork and his welcome to his guests. Sober but elegant, the latter is based on the conviction that beauty must also be functional, like all the objects Oldani has created for his guests.