Mangia Disco | Italian Food and Italo Disco, Melbourne

Food · Records · Good times

In 1979, disco
was declared dead.

Italy never got the memo.

Regional Italian food, good drinks and Italo disco. Matt cooks. Andy plays.

Enter the kitchen ↓

The format

Regional food.
Good drinks.
Italo disco.

Pick a region. Cook what it is known for. Pour what belongs at the table. Play records that take us there.

The Mangia Disco room: arches, checkerboard floor, mirror ball and the neon sign

Mangia Disco presenta

First chapters

Two films from one very full kitchen. Both are out now.

Mangia Disco

Mangia Disco presentaCapitoli I & II

Il Lungo
metraggio

Versione integrale

Matt and Andy behind the turntables in the Mangia Disco kitchen
Porchetta being prepared
Bistecca being carved

The full hour. Porchetta, bistecca and one unbroken set, start to last record.

Matt Vitale e Andy Murphy in «Il Lungometraggio»
Cucina Matt Vitale · Dischi Andy Murphy · Durata 60 minuti · Regioni Lazio e Toscana
Girato a Melbourne · Colore · Suono · MMXXVI

Andy in a Mangia Disco tee and Matt in a porchetta tee behind the decks, oranges and sourdough on the bench

On the decks

The food changes.
And the beat goes on.

Italo disco, cosmic electronics and house. Moroder and Carrà through to Kano, Gazebo and Klein & M.B.O. Records built for late nights.

01 Italo disco02 Electronic03 House04 A few surprises

Set coming soon

Andy and Matt laughing on Matt's blue Vespa, years before Mangia Disco
Before Mangia Disco had a name

Matt + Andy

Friends since school.
Still up to mischief.

Matt and Andy met at school. For decades, food and music have been the shared language: dinners, records, kids, projects and late nights. Mangia Disco puts a camera in the room and turns the volume up — an Italian cooking show with a DJ set, filmed in Melbourne.

School daysStill here

Matt cooks. Andy plays.

Cooked loud.
Played louder.

First episode coming soon