It all begun like this

María Teresa synthesizes more than 70 years of Italian gastronomy in Mendoza. She started next to “la Nonna Fernanda”, an immigrant, a “tana”, that in 1948 arrived carrying her children and her courage. The firm purpose of getting ahead of difficulties drove them to be the pioneers in offering Italian food in Mendoza. In 1954, along with Francesco Barbera, they started a path that led them to form a big family of gastronomes.

Francesco is the exclusive Barbera Family restaurant, where María Teresa offers gastronomy all her creativity and experience. We refer to the old familiar Barbera manor, refurbished and brought back to its value.

“Francesco is the calling to welcome our guests at home, with passion, creativity, and warmth, in each detail of flavor, scent and freshness. The name is in honor of my father, who, backing my mother´s inexhaustible strength with all his love and admiring, has being the mainstay of María Teresa´s dreams.”

 

Beatriz Barbera, founder of the ristorante.

In her beginnings, La Nonna Fernanda cooked typical italian meals; María Teresa merged traditional gastronomy with Mendoza´s flavors; hugging that legacy and bringing it to its fullest potential, Beatriz today adds Mendoza´s identity regional products, taking the style crated by the Barbera´s in Mendoza to their maximum expression.

Francesco is placed in the heart of Mendoza´s city, next to Gio Bar e Il Mercatino, with which, it forms a gastronomical center backed by over 70 years of Barbera´s family experience.