ROMAN FOOD BOX · SHIPPED FROM AMSTERDAM

Roma,
in a box.

The finest Roman ingredients — guanciale, Pecorino Romano DOP, bronze-cut pasta — from the families who still make them by hand. Shipped across Europe.

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Box N°01 — La Gricia, Sampietrino
Box N°01 — La Gricia  ·  Edition Winter 2026

Where it started

A conviction about Roman food.

Sampietrino was born with a single conviction: that the finest Roman ingredients deserved to travel. The aged guanciale from Amatrice. The Pecorino Romano DOP from the Lazio hills. The pasta trafilata al bronzo from a historic Roman pastificio. Things made slowly, by families, with no shortcuts — and almost impossible to find, intact and uncompromised, anywhere in Northern Europe.

We wanted to bring them to Dutch kitchens. Not as curiosities, not as souvenirs, but as what they actually are: the foundation of one of the world's oldest culinary traditions.

That was the beginning. But the most beautiful stories evolve when two worlds meet.

The evolution

Two cultures, one stone.

Some Italians went to Argentina. The flavours came back.

Sampietrino was born to bring the historic roots of Roman food to the Netherlands. But the most beautiful stories evolve when two worlds meet.

From the union of Rome and Buenos Aires — Italy and Argentina — Sampietrino becomes the meeting point of two cultures united by the same stone, the same passion for the table, for good wine, and for artisan coffee.

Between 1860 and 1950, nearly three million Italians emigrated to Argentina. They carried their seeds, their stubbornness, and their Sunday recipes. What grew on the other side of the Atlantic was something new — and unmistakably Italian. The vineyards of Mendoza, planted with Italian varietals. The pasta factories of Buenos Aires, open on Sundays. The neighbourhood of La Boca, built by Genoese workers who never quite stopped being Italian.

Sampietrino is the return journey of those flavours. One box at a time.

— The Sampietrino Story

Our Story

Who we are.

Fabio and Natalia at the Colosseum, Rome

Fabio, Roman. Natalia, Argentine. Amsterdam, five years now.
This is our story — and Sampietrino is how we tell it at the table.

Ruta del Fin del Mundo, Patagonia
Ruta del Fin del Mundo, Patagonia
Argentine asado — Sunday barbecue
The asado. Sunday in Argentina.
Una strada di Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, provincia.

Today

One club. Two cultures. Every month.

We curate each Sampietrino box around a single story — a point where Italian and Argentine culture overlap, cross, or collide. A bottle of Malbec from Mendoza beside a packet of bronze-cut pasta from Rome. Alfajores alongside cantucci. Yerba mate beside espresso. Products that belong together because the people who made them are, somewhere in history, the same people.

We ship across Europe, from Amsterdam, to anyone who understands that what's on the table tells a story worth knowing.

Box N°01 — The Italian Origin

La Gricia

€49

The oldest Roman pasta. Before eggs arrived from the Americas, before tomatoes changed everything — there was only guanciale, pecorino, and black pepper. This is where the Italian side of Sampietrino begins.

Tasting Notes

Profile
Creamy, savoury, peppery — no cream, no shortcuts.
Texture
Al dente mezze maniche; the sauce binds with starch and heat alone.
Pairing
A Frascati Superiore, served cool but not cold.
Time
22 minutes, from cutting the guanciale to plating.
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Founders edition: €44 instead of €49, price locked forever. Only 50 boxes available.

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What's inside

  • Guanciale Bracigliano Salumi Bracigliano SA, 150 g
  • Pecorino Romano DOP 100 g
  • Mezze Maniche Rigate Russo Bronze-cut, Cicciano 1880, 500 g
  • Sarawak black pepper Ground to order, 30 g
  • Recipe card Cotton paper, handwritten
  • QR code → Club Concierge Direct access included
Details & Allergens

Allergens: gluten (wheat), milk (pecorino). Storage: dry place, away from direct light — products are cured and aged, no refrigeration required. Guanciale: Bracigliano SA, Campania. Pasta: Pastificio Russo, Cicciano (NA), est. 1880. Packed and shipped from Haarlem, Netherlands.

Guanciale Bracigliano Salumi — Sampietrino Box N°01
Mezze Maniche Rigate Russo, bronze-cut — Sampietrino Box N°01
Box N°01 — La Gricia, Sampietrino

Individual Products

No box required.

Every product in the Sampietrino box is also available separately — sourced directly from the same Italian and Argentine producers.

Bracigliano, Campania

Guanciale Bracigliano

Cured pork cheek, aged 90 days. The fat that makes a Roman pasta Roman.

€14 · 150 g

Lazio Hills

Pecorino Romano DOP

Sharp, saline, irreplaceable. The only cheese that Gricia ever asked for.

€10 · 100 g

Cicciano, Campania — est. 1880

Mezze Maniche Rigate Russo

Bronze-cut pasta from a Roman pastificio. The surface that holds the sauce.

€7 · 500 g

All three, together

La Gricia Kit

Guanciale, Pecorino Romano, Mezze Maniche — the complete kit without the box ceremony. Cheaper than buying the three separately.

€29 · + shipping

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We reply within a few hours. Shipped across Europe — shipping calculated at checkout.

Membership

Two ways to be part of it.

The Monthly Club

One box every month. Each with a different theme — Italian, Argentine, or the story of one crossing to another. Curated, numbered, shipped to your door.

From €45 / month · Cancel anytime

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Single Box

Not ready to subscribe? Order Box N°01 — La Gricia — as a one-time purchase. The Italian origin of the club, before the crossing begins.

€49 · One time

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Beyond the box

We come to you.

Markets & Pop-ups

Find us at Amsterdam's weekend markets. Taste before you subscribe — Guanciale, Pecorino, Malbec, and the full story of two cultures at one table, in person.

Upcoming dates posted on Instagram

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Private Dinners & Corporate Tastings

A Gricia dinner at your home. A wine and pasta evening for your team. A private tasting with the full Italo-Argentine story at the table. We handle everything — sourcing, cooking, storytelling.

From €30 / guest · minimum 8 guests

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Zakelijk

Sampietrino Zakelijk — Kerstpakketten met een verhaal

Een premium Romeinse foodbox als kerstpakket of relatiegeschenk. Echte guanciale, Pecorino Romano DOP en bronsgetrokken pasta — geen standaardpakket, maar een cadeau met een verhaal dat uw relaties niet snel vergeten.

  • Bezorging op meerdere adressen op een gegarandeerde datum
  • Persoonlijke kaart met uw logo
  • Betaling op factuur
  • Vast aanspreekpunt — antwoord binnen één werkdag

Staffel (indicatief)

10–24 box vanaf €42 p/box
25–49 box vanaf €38 p/box
50+ box prijs op aanvraag

Indicatief, excl. btw en verzending.

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The Experience

A box, not a parcel.

It arrives in a cement-grey cardboard box, sealed with a terracotta wax stamp — the colour of the stone it's named after.

Inside, each item is wrapped individually in écru tissue paper. On top: a handwritten story card — not printed, not laminated — written by whoever packed it that day, at that hour. It opens slowly. It's designed that way.

  1. The seal breaks — it doesn't peel.
  2. The tissue opens, one layer at a time.
  3. The card is read before cooking.
  4. The QR is scanned when you're ready to begin.

The Concierge

Not an assistant.
A kitchen confidant.

Remo knows every box by heart — what's in it, where it comes from, how it behaves in the pan. He doesn't give you generic recipes: he guides you through the exact technique, at the exact moment.

Ask him about the guanciale's rendering point, a wine for tonight, the difference between Argentine and Italian pasta. He answers like a Roman who's lived in Buenos Aires — and takes both seriously.

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