TREVISO. A few weeks, e from bankruptcy and closure 10 years will have passed.
It doesn’t even seem true. A decade without the Biffi, the very essence of the square, the symbol of Treviso.
What was a temple of provincial life, today, it has become a toilet, the services for the adjacent Beltrame, owned by the co-owner Paolo Camatta.
Inevitable, passing by now, the reflections on time and on the commercial evolution of the city, but also on that black hole, which is not just the club, but also the portion of the loggia once paved with unmistakable tables.
The melancholy of seeing the splendid wooden furnishings created by Rachello accuse the signs of aging.
He was an icon, not only because he was immortalized in films, but also the characters from the stories of Ladies and gentlemen.
A ritual in the formation of at least 4 generations of Treviso, because the square, at that time, was the navel of the city, and one could not ignore the reinforced toast and the porchetta sandwich, the vitello tonnato.
“When you parked under the Biffi”, say the nostalgic, “it was the most coveted place”.
Ciacoe, when gossip was not even known what it was. Business and weddings, sports and stories, friendships and betrayals. Jokes and travel stories, first loves, initiation rites, the jokes of the fioi dea piassa, as inexhaustible as the joy of living in Treviso.
Rugby, down there, has won and lost championships, he torpedoed coaches, animated the lodge with his jokes. Under the loggia and above the tables, among the glasses and sandwiches the beers – the place had taken off after the war, picking up the baton from the Pedavena brewery, not surprisingly the school ofthe legendary waiters Ciccio Vanin and Bruno Pizzola, Almerino Pernechele.
The coop that ran it had grown – the various Rino Toni, Francesco and his wife, Luigino, Checco – had opened two other premises, in Piazza Carducci and in Via Zanella in Selvana.
Premise of the end, alas, when one of the dissidents had presented in 2011 filing for bankruptcy, not having received his due. In the summer of 2011, an ugly omen disappeared – the plateatico.
Then, in October – shock to the city, which did not want to believe it – the closure.
Many had hoped to see it reborn, like the Phoenix. The Gobbo and Manildo joints had tried, the councilors Mauro and Camolei. No way.
The Conte junta has re-launched the calls, but the Biffi, for two decades, has seen nothing but the flow of Beltrame customers for their physiological needs. A sad fate.
Justice has in the meantime run its course, discovering the bankruptcy cost the sole administrator 1 year and 7 months of plea bargaining.
The very complex bankruptcy receivership is still in progress. AND total immobility for the roomdespite the advances – even from historic brands and VIP brands, the well-informed of the square assure you – you arrive at nearby Camatta (the other part of the restaurant is owned by the Giovanetti heirs.
They say that the rent has not fallen from very high prices in recent years. But maybe there is more, if it is true that Camatta himself and the Giovanetti heirs have remained “Burned” by failure (fees not paid for over 100 thousand euros) although they have chosen not to insinuate themselves into bankruptcy.
“Something must be done” is almost a cry Giorgio Fantin, custodian of Treviso, “I think that it would be the ideal place for a literary café, perhaps enhancing the first floor, which lends itself to cenacles. It was the place of our entry into adulthood, I remember seeing all the protagonists of Signore & Signori, but also Bepi Mazzotti who devoured porchetta cloths in series. For us it was the world, life. Indeed the cosmos ». Now, nobody wants it, it’s a black hole.
.