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Located in the majestic and prestigious Palazzo Mantegazza, META restaurant brings together all the values of the Med&Fusion gastronomic experience in a single aesthetic setting.The location, designed by the architect Massimo Marzorati and inaugurated in January 2020, features a space with great scenographic impact, where contemporary design elements and unique pieces of craftsmanship, dialogue in perfect balance with each other.The forms are linear in their elegance and the materials are warm in their authenticity.

Combining technique with experience, emotion with culture, aesthetics with creativity, META restaurant offers an always surprising cuisine, characterized by the use of excellent raw materials in a harmonious blend of Mediterranean tradition and unusual and sensational exotic notes.

Chef of Meta Restaurant, 1 michelin Star,inside the Palazzo Mantegazza in Lugano.

Luca Bellanca brings to the Ticino gastronomic scene the sense of a constant research of an harmony suspended between tradition and innovation, a symbol of his cuisine.

Raised in Varese with Sicilian origin, Luca Bellanca honed his experiences first in California, after in Ireland and finally Spain. Knowledges that led him to develop his own personal gastronomic path in the fusionprocess between different places of experience.

Through his cooking philosophy, Luca Bellanca expresses not only his professional journey but his life moments, in a continuous Med&Fusion gastronomic journey.

Creativity, ambition, and above all, the passion for his work led Luca Bellanca to get his first Michelin Star and be proclaimed “Chef revelation of the year in Ticino” by the renowned Gault&Millau Guide in 2021.

These awards are the signs of the commitment, efforts and work that are necessary for the satisfaction of a group with the same passion.

Luca Bellanca