It’s finally here. Eataly—fronted by Mario Batali and Lidia Bastianich, along with Bastianich’s son, Joe, and founder Oscar Farinetti—is a sprawling, 67,000-square-foot ode to Italian cuisine that opens three floors and multiple concepts within the Westfield Century City mall today.
Part market, part restaurant, part food hall, part desserterie, part cooking school, part wine shop—whew—it’s an overwhelming experience. If you’re anything like us, when you’re not wandering the floor in awe of the thousands of Italian products, you’ll be wondering how you can stow away and live there, undetected, in your own personal Eataly palace.
