Call it ‘the Milan end’ of Melbourne, Rinaldo does.

Located on Spring St, opposite the Treasury Gardens, between Collins St and Flinders Lane, there emerges a truly unique space – imagined, created, curated – that lies at the nexus of all the Di Stasio energies that have come before it.

Cittá is a culmination of sorts, a vibrant dynamic next step along a continuum of a challenge and of notions Rinaldo has been grappling with all his life. This is not only a commercial venture – though of course, he has never retreated from this aspect – but is also a vehicle to express and bring together all the aspects of Italo-Australian history, culture, place and heritage.

It is an opportunity too to bring a long-standing dream to further fruition, celebrating Rinaldo’s influence on the Australian hospitality, cultural and artistic landscape, through a renewed celebration of Melbourne and the CBD where it all began and of his beloved spiritual and familial home, Italy.

Citta brings to life a unique sense of hospitality, food and drink, architecture, and artistic movements. The space will inspire, champion and give to, as a living, breathing staging ground of art, design, architecture, and ideas; the fulcrum of the Di Stasio ethos – food, art, ideas and philosophy. Italianality.

A Milan end for Spring St, an Italian quarter for the Melbourne CBD: a diverse range of human activities; a way of expression that combines music, literature, film, painting, photography, design and shared celebration, an electric sense of anticipation in the air – all of this carrying over into what has been built to stand here now.