Imagine that almost no experience of catering, you have the nerve to make an offer to buy your first restaurant in 21 years. You really bet everything you have on the project. But your first appointment with one that sells for cancer, you arrive in overalls. As you are building superintendent where you live to save rent costs, door installation gave you a headache all day. So no time to change! Y is likely that the seller take you for a crank. However, he eventually trust you once took some information. And it sells its Italian restaurant. It goes even overnight, to show you how to make gnocchi his Milanese childhood.


Sixteen years later, the dream continues. The Junior Chamber of Commerce of Quebec puts you on the nomination list for when next Gala February 27, 2015 the title of Young Business Person of 2014. Well, at 37, is all this and more has lived Marc Anthony Muñoz, owner of Trattoria La Scala and La Piccola Quebec, friendly restaurant René-Lévesque Boulevard.
"The more I worked in restaurants either as a dishwasher or server, the more I hated college! "Almost tells Marc Anthony Muñoz pride, which still has not completed his baccalaureate in administration. "Early on, however, I knew I wanted to leave me in business. "Young maybe, but not an airhead. He has the wisdom to keep his two older servers who know the referral with suppliers, to surround conscientious leaders and above all, he does not hesitate to put their hands in the dough ...! While the first few weeks are more difficult, it gave off some nights its leader - but still remains on the lookout living near the restaurant - it was Mark Antony who takes care of preparing pizza or to set fire carbonara! No question of a failure. His youth and hard work were quick to slowly seduce her staff. Customer eventually follow.

 

Sale of happiness
So what's a young owner has to offer to its customers? After tripling space from taking possession of the premises, highlighted the stone walls, the place is both calm, warm and makes you want to linger. That's good. Marc Anthony Muñoz, since it is by choice that the customer pushes the door of his restaurant, it is to him and his team to be able to sell him happiness.

With a name like La Scala, how to ignore the music! Evenings with opera arias multiplied with Marc Anthony at the helm of La Scala. It commits 5 or 6 singers with two pianists for musical performances. This is not nothing.

But the plate? The team at La Scala and La Piccola second floor manufactures everything including the bread, and of course pasta. Besides the famous gnocchi, pizza, offal and Tartar are also honored. Not to mention the private import of various wines.


Your heart strokes, Señor Muñoz? As a starter, risotto croquettes with cheese or sweetbreads laminated with veal stock reduction and cream. In main dishes, lamb loin in its phyllo or the breaded veal cutlet home. But how can you miss gnocchi, whether in cognac, white wine or cream with smoked salmon and capers. Or ask the boss outbreaks pasta! It is relatively classic, but it is a choice of the occupant. "When you want to reinvent things too, you sometimes lose the basis of good food. »


Do not be surprised that it is the owner himself who you make suggestions during a visit to his restaurant. With a lovely mug - ladies, be warned! - Marc Anthony Muñoz is still the service occasionally, but less since the birth of his son he is 15 months old!