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La Taverna in Tsim Sha Tsui is the oldest Italian restaurant in the city. Executive chef Marco Bajma speaks about the restaurant’s unique history and his passion for bringing authentic Italian cooking to Hong Kong.

The oldest Italian restaurant in Hong Kong, La Taverna, was opened in 1969 by two Milanese brothers, Giuseppe and Aldo Macchetti.

They moved to Asia to tend to their father's export business in the 1960s, but quickly moved into the restaurant business. "They found there weren't any Italian restaurants that they and their friends could go to when they wanted a taste of home," says Raymond Chan, office manager of Macchetti Holdings, the restaurant's parent company.

The first La Taverna in Hong Kong opened at On Hing Terrace in Central, followed by one on Ashley Road in Tsim Sha Tsui in 1973. At its height, the company had six restaurants here. The Tsim Sha Tsui outlet is the only one that remains.

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