At the entrance of the hall, guests were greeted by a bar offering Aperol Spritz and Limoncello. On stage, DJ Alex Fantoma, a longtime friend of Di Iorio and an avid mixing enthusiast, treated the crowd of about 180 guests to a nostalgic setlist featuring the best dance hits from 30 to 40 years ago.
Between the platters of generous antipasto and the inviting aromas wafting from the kitchen, Di Iorio shared what’s next on the club’s busy event calendar for the final months of 2025.
“Tonight, I’m hoping to make this format a quarterly event,” he announced. “That way, we’ll have enough time to plan everything properly, while balancing everyone’s personal commitments.
“On November 8, we’ll celebrate our 58th anniversary, and for the occasion, we’re preparing a special menu with our talented young Italian chefs.”
As always, the club’s Christmas Lunch and New Year’s Eve Gala will follow shortly after.
“Then we’ll close for two weeks to give our staff time to recharge and enjoy their families,” Di Iorio added.
Di Iorio knows all too well the demands of hospitality, having worked alongside his parents in the family’s former restaurant, Casa Iorio, where weekends often ended at half past three in the morning.
“It was a life of sacrifices and late nights,” he recalled, “But it was worth it — those were beautiful times.”
And it’s precisely that sense of nostalgia that fuels evenings like this — a celebration of the decades that defined a generation: the first to enter adulthood in a world being transformed by technology, yet still old enough to remember when a simple phone call meant more than a thousand likes on social media.
