The Restaurant

I always was intrigued to see how the farmhouses (the “other” farmhouses) advertise on their brochures and web sites their restaurant with “large banquet hall” or “60 seats”, someone even “100 seats” … these are not “Agriturismo”, these are “restaurants” in all respects. True, the laws allow an “agriturismo” to have dining seats equal to twice the number of beds with a maximum of 60 diners, but we believe this is likely to turn a farmhouse in a restaurant like any other. We preferred to make a different choice and so decided to open our restaurant only to staying guests. This means peace and relaxed atmosphere to the table, more attention to each one of our guests and opportunity to meet special dietary requests, when made on time. Or simply satisfy personal preferences, if possible during that season.

In fact we offer traditional dishes from Umbria and in particular of our area preparing and offering a single menu with dishes selected from the list at the ebottom of the page. Bread and pasta are always “home made” and the vegetable garden provides us with abundant raw material for dishes. What we do not produce (yet) in our farm is purchased from the surrounding farms, in any case in Umbria, and we make every effort to have our ingredients to be “zero-km” ingredients.

Sample dishes on the menu for lunch or dinner

Our fixed menu changes according to season and availability in the vegetable garden. Guests staying for several days rarely taste two times the same dish.

• Al testo cake with cheese, mixed salami and field herbs
• Beans and pecorino
• Fresh pecorino, sheep’s cheese
• Spelled noodles with tomatoes and pecorino
• Spelled tortelloni stuffed with apple and ricotta
• Tortelli pumpkin with butter and sage
• Pasta with black cabbage pesto
• Cappelletti in broth
• Velvety of wild nettles
• Soup with farro (emmer) and lentils
• Pork with apples and raisins
• Bites of chicken with tomatoes and olives
• Rabbit all’arancia
• Braised Chianina
• Rabbit with lemon
• Fillet of pork with honey and apricots

…. and many many others.

We do not offer bottled water, we believe that it is not very intelligent move around Italy bottles of water and fill the landfill of PET bottles when you have (like we do) a spring of drinking water within the property, regularly monitored.