SAN JOSE (KCBS RADIO) – If you can't make it to Naples this summer, the Bay Area will soon be home to the next best thing.
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The newest outpost of the famed Italian market "Eataly" is finally opening in the South Bay.
KCBS Radio was given a sneak peak of what the renowned food emporium will be offering when it opens its eighth U.S. location on June 16 inside San Jose's West Valley Fair.
The embassy will feature two restaurants — "La Pizza & La Pasta" and "Terra" — take out counters and a marketplace offering more than 10,000 products, both imported from Italy and uniquely from the Bay Area, such as Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Strauss Family Creamery and fresh fish supplied by San Francisco's ABS Seafood.



Between the pandemic, supply chain problems and skyrocketing inflation, Eataly Managing Partner Adam Saper said he knows it's quite the time to be opening a three level specialty food destination.
"We have definitely checked our sanity multiple times," he told KCBS Radio, adding that it's a dream that they made it happen.
"In the food business, when things don't work, we find a way to make it work," Saper said.
Eataly's Global Vice President Dino Borri said the food palace makes him feel at home.
"We really create a place like a square, like a piazza in Italia," he told KCBS Radio.



"We want to put an embassy of Eataly in every city in the United States," Borri added.
The much-anticipated opening is good news for Bay Area locals who had hoped for a European vacation but balked at the price.
"We are cheaper than a flight to Italy. Much cheaper,: Saper explained. "We are also a place with high quality food. Maybe you're not going to eat out every day and you can also bring stuff home and cook."
Doors open at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

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