Kanpai, based in Porta Venezia, one of Milan’s historical neighbourhoods, proposes the Izakaya rites and atmosphere – the equivalent of our hostelries, where sakè is informally drunk, accompanied by dishes from popular Japanese cuisine.
With this restaurant, Claudio Saverino and Tiziano Vudafieri face the theme of popular memories which animate the post-work Tokyo evenings, setting as an objective to re-stitch an aesthetic relationship – narrative but not artificial – with Milan’s urban ambience in which Kanpai transports a sensation of contemporary Japan, recalling in a non vernacular way some of the typical elements of the traditional Izakaya. In reality Kanpai could inhabit one of the many lively side streets in one of the Japanese metropolitan cities, with installed screens which transmit pop images typical of today’s technological, urban Japan.