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In the Mix at King

Typically, when we have the good fortune to visit restaurants to take photographs and interview the owners, it’s during the day on a Monday, or in that brief pocket of time after the swell of lunch and before the controlled chaos of dinner begins, which is understandable. We’ll likely (definitely) get in the way, so when Jess Shadbolt and Annie Shi, the friends and founders (along with Claire de Boer) of King, on the corner of 6th Ave and King St in New York, invited us to see them in action during a full service, we said, “Yes, definitely! We’ll try not to get in the way.”

Watching Pallapugno

We arrived in Cortemilia as guests of Massimo Vacchetto, which, in local terms, is like arriving in Naples under the wing of Maradona. It had been over a year since we first met him, in the chill of February, 2024, alone on a court in Alba. 

Now it was June, over a year later, and the stage was set. Approaching the venue we were met with long rows of cars parked tightly against stone buildings. A crowd gathered at the ticket office housed in a small wooden hut. The air was warm with the smell of hazelnuts and Barbera, team photos being taken at the beginning, just as the sun tucked itself behind the hills, casting long shadows across the concrete court. 

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