Risotto & Steel took root in 2017, between Milan’s skyscrapers and urban farmhouses with a mission to share exciting and diverse food & drink experiences in Northern Italy with visitors from around the world. Today, we aim to celebrate the stories of Italian artisans while embracing nature, fitness, family and slow travel with a hint of old-world luxury.

Elizabeth De Filippo-Jones is the CEO of Risotto & Steel, a boutique travel advisory specializing in culinary and natural wine travel.

After growing up in New York and graduating in art history from Oberlin College, she landed her dream job in the San Francisco office of the first publisher of visitor's guides in America. After 6 years away from New York, she moved to Brooklyn to work on hospitality design and branding at the Rockwell Group and study food anthropology at NYU. She founded the Food Book Fair, a festival at the intersection of food writing and culture. In 2015, she picked up and moved to Milan, Italy to produce the USA Pavilion at the food-themed World's Fair Expo Milano with the James Beard Foundation.

She launched Risotto & Steel determined to share untapped culinary Italy, helping visitors explore immersive, convivial and regional gastronomy. She has written about Italy for Eater, Prior and Italy Segreta and lives between Milan and Liguria on a steep olive tree-covered hill overlooking the Cinque Terre sea.

Mita Guerra is a content producer and tour guide raised between Milan, Italy and Rovinj, Croatia. She loves cats, Milan’s Chinatown and pre-millennial pink.

Jonathan Cohen is a hospitality consultant and Italophile who loves Piemontese wine and his dog Milo.