The Guide: 'The Tables of Law: the power of the kitchen at the heart of the Italian bar'

When food meets law, it is not just a matter of taste, but a true cultural and social map. "Le Tavole della Legge", the latest work by Nicola Di Molfetta, produced together with Letizia Ceriani, and published by LC Publishing Group, is much more than a gastronomic guide. It is a journey into the relational and symbolic power of the table, conceived by those who live the world of the Italian legal business community every day.

The publication, fresh off the press in the 2025 edition, brings together more than 280 restaurants recommended by the Legalcommunity.it and MAG magazine community, selected over ten years of recommendations and reviews. From Milan to Rome, from Venice to Sicily, passing by unexpected corners such as Lenna or Barate di Gaggiano, each restaurant included in the guide is a small monument to professional conviviality.

It is not just a collection of addresses, but a carnet de mémoires, as Di Molfetta himself writes in the introduction, in which food is culture, connection, memory. And the pretext to recount a professional world that precisely around a plate of spaghetti alle vongole or a plateau of crudi, negotiates contracts, discusses strategies and builds alliances.

The guide is enriched by six dialogues at the table - with Federico Sutti, Guglielmo Maisto, Luca Arnaboldi, Giuseppe La Scala, Enrico Castaldi and Matteo Orsingher - that show how the meal can also be a tale of the self, a self-portrait made up of culinary preferences and professional visions. Food, once again, becomes language.

'The Tables of Law' brings an aesthetic of care and slowness to the legal world. At times it seems to recall Calamandrei's ethics of conviviality, the one that already inspired "Quali Avvocati?", a pamphlet signed by Di Molfetta himself in 2021, on the occasion of the centenary of the famous "Troppi Avvocati!". But if there it was about reform, here it is about celebration.