Mara Severin was 31 years old and 10 she worked in the chef’s restaurant Simone Nardoni

Riccardo Cristilli

July 8 – 10:03 – MILAN

One dead and about ten injured is the balance of the collapse of the ceiling of the starry restaurant essence of terracinatown of the Lazio coast in the province of Latina. The tragedy took place at 10 pm, in the middle of the evening service of a peaceful summer Monday, when there were tourists, customers and employees in the club.

Sommelier died in the collapse of the essence restaurant

To lose his life was Mara Severin, Sommelier of the 31 -year -old restaurant, extracted still alive from the rubble but then died in the hospital. For reasons still to be defined, it is the entire floor collapsed of one of the rooms of the restaurant overlooking via Roma. According to the first rumors, the fault could be of some infiltrations related to the bad weather of the last hours that may have weakened the ceiling, but some works are also under observation at the end of June. “We heard a very strong noise and approached the restaurant” said one of the guys who passed through via Roma, the central artery of the Lazio city, “we saw many people go out between the screams”.

The story of essence

The essence restaurant He was born in Pontinia in 2011 founded by chef Simone Nardoni. Since 2019 they then moved to Terracina and in 2020, in the year of Covid who put many restaurants in difficulty, the Michelin star. The restaurant menu was varied, far from the classic traditional catering patterns, rich in local fish, but also Wagyu and oysters meat, capable of attracting customers from all over the world. Chef Nardoni Just a few days ago he announced that he had invested in machinery and technologies to improve the work of the restaurant and reduce waste.

Who was Mara Severin

Mara Severin was one of the columns of the essence restaurant. He had been working for more than 10 years inside the club as he had remembered with a place on Instagram last October: “10 years have passed since I crossed that gate without knowing what would reserve me that chat and that test weekend. A long journey, made up of many moments, full of emotions, which does not stop and continues in this world that is called wine and catering”. Mara lived in Sabaudiain essence I managed the cellar with over 850 labels To be combined with each creation of the chef, but was also responsible for the room, also praised on social networks, for competence and professionalism. How to find out by scrolling through his Instagram profile, Italy and Europe was just possible to discover cellars and wines, lately it had been in Burgundy, but also in Chianti and Marche. Several messages of condolence are starting to arrive on social networks. “Terracina tightens in a collective embrace of pain and responsibilities,” said councilor Alessandra Feudi on behalf of the city administration.



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