Yahoo Lifestyle London’s Mercato Metropolitano Launches Studio After Serving Up ‘Unknown Chefs’ Series Produced by Andrea Iervolino, David Tickle
London’s Mercato Metropolitano food market is opening a studio for TV and movie productions – while still functioning as a sustainable food court – after servicing the shoot of upcoming doc series “The Unknown Chefs” produced by Italy’s Andrea Iervolino and British music producer David Tickle.
The “Unknown Chefs” series chronicling the journey of four cooks who sought refuge in the United Kingdom –- respectively from Syria, Namibia, Nepal, and Uzbekistan –- and then managed to turn the food of their homeland into their livelihoods, will drop March 7 on streamers including Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Iervolino’s Tatatu platform.
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Iervolino produced the show with Tickle via his Tickle Entertainment shingle. Tickle is known for his work with artists including Blondie, Peter Gabriel, U2, Prince and Joe Cocker.
The show’s protagonists were able to launch their own street food businesses with the support of Mercato Metropolitano.
Iervolino, whose credits include Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” Johnny Depp-starrer “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend,” owns a controlling stake in Mercato Metropolitano and recently became president of this pioneering community market.
He is now transforming the sustainable food court into a multifunctional hub equipped with a full-fledged facility at Mercato Metropolitan’s Ilford location dedicated to producing premium content featuring stories related to food, and the culture and entrepreneurship behind it.
“Mercato Metropolitano has always represented the future of food. Now, we want to expand our cultural impact by telling stories that educate and engage a global audience. This is a natural evolution for a project that has always had a clear mission: bringing people, culture, and sustainability together,” Iervolino said in a statement.
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