ROMAN FOOD BOX · THE STORY
Born in Rome.
Sampietrino brings the finest Roman ingredients to Dutch kitchens — guanciale, Pecorino Romano DOP, bronze-cut pasta. This is how it started, and the crossing that shaped it.
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.
Born in Rome. Raised in Buenos Aires. The story of three million Italians who crossed the Atlantic.
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.
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.
Ready?
Join the club.
Start with Box N°01 — La Gricia, the Italian origin — or join the waitlist for the monthly club.