Domenico Marotta

The Training The first line of influence runs through service before it runs through a dining room. At the Bar of Trussardi alla Scala in Milan, Marotta worked in a setting that placed him close to the rhythms of hospitality: arrival, timing, attention, restraint. He then joined the restaurant staff there, carrying that proximity into the kitchen’s fuller sequence of preparation and service. Another named step in his formation was Piazza Duomo in Alba, Italy. The move matters in the shape of his career because it places his apprenticeship across two Italian cities, Milan and Alba, before his return to Squille. Rather than a story built around a single teacher’s name, his path is legible through houses: first the bar and restaurant staff of Trussardi alla Scala, then work at Piazza Duomo, then the restaurant that carries his own name.

The Lineage Family gives this career its deepest geography. The activity of Marotta’s family later grew into Villa La Collinetta, the events location where his restaurant is now located. That fact makes the address more than a workplace: it ties a current kitchen to a prior family enterprise, with the chef’s cooking placed inside a setting already shaped by hospitality. The lineage is therefore double. One part comes from professional passage through established Italian venues; the other comes from Squille, where the family activity became the place that now holds his dining room. Since 2019, his role as chef has brought those lines together at one table. The inheritance is not presented as nostalgia, but as continuity: a family location, a chef formed elsewhere, and a return that gives the site its present culinary expression.

The Table At Marotta in Squille, the specialty is Modern Cuisine and Seasonal Cuisine. Those two terms give the cooking its frame without reducing it to a single dish or fixed formula. Modernity suggests a present-tense way of thinking; seasonality keeps the work attached to time, availability, and the changing calendar. Seen through his route, that table reads as a convergence. The bar in Milan taught one kind of attentiveness; the restaurant staff there placed him inside another; Alba added a further Italian kitchen to the arc. In Squille, since 2019, Marotta has gathered those experiences into a restaurant set within Villa La Collinetta, where family history and professional training meet in service.