Puro Import

Pietro Nicotra and Vincenzo Costanza started Puro Import in Berlin with a straightforward idea: build direct, transparent relationships with small Italian producers who go beyond organic certification, and bring their products to the city’s restaurants, cafés, and food shops with the knowledge and care those products deserve. Anyone who has worked in Berlin’s food scene over the past decade has almost certainly crossed their path.
Our connection with them goes back further than Puro itself. Alessandro first met Pietro at Markthalle Neun, where Alessandro was selling Barlotti’s mozzarella and Pietro was promoting his family’s olive oil. When that chapter ended, Pietro and Vincenzo took Barlotti into their own roster — which says a lot about who they are. The relationship has since taken just about every shape possible: supplier and customer at Vom Einfachen das Gute and Archipel, then two years of Alessandro working inside the Puro family as Operations Manager. At Archipel, when Adrien — another of Oddkin’s founders — was running the place, Puro was always one of its key suppliers. So by the time Oddkin came around, Pietro and Vincenzo were naturally one of Oddkin’s most important partners and biggest supporters from the very start. Some things just stick.