Gianni and Tomasso Barbaini

These are the Barbaini brothers as I met them in the Galeria Vittorio Emanuelle the other day. Their surname comes from their forefather, a Greek ship Captain called Barba Iani, who sailed to Genova, Italy in the mid-thirties and stayed because his ship was confiscated by the Mussolini fascists. Their fortune also comes from the Captain who had great skills in cooking fish and started an extremely successful restaurant in a suburb of Milan. The restaurant is still doing very well to this day and the brothers prosper mostly due to the special sauce they serve with their fried fish, nobody can make the sauce like them (the secret ingredient is nutmeg). After they studied the diner's traffic carefully, they noted that the lowest day occupancy is on Wednesdays, so that is when they keep the restaurant closed and everybody takes their day off. Gianni and Tomasso Barbaini relax by dressing in women's clothes, go shopping and hang around in bars. They have great success at it.