Relax and linger over Tuscan specialities and fresh Italian wines, beautifully prepared by Chef Attilio di Fabrizio and his team.
Hors D'Oeuvres
Caterina de’ Medici salad:
Wild green salads, Parmesan cheese, walnuts and capers dressed with herb sauce
Warm puff pastry filled with asparagus tips, served with lemon sauce
Small pie of Pienza Pecorino cheese matured in underground caves, served with fresh tomato purée
Artichoke and scampi tail with shallots and walnuts
Warm blue lobster fillet with goose liver and herb sauce
Beef “carpaccio” served with rucola, celery and Parmesan cheese
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SOUPS, PASTA AND RICE
Tuscan vegetable thick soup
Red lentil soup served with goose fillets
Potato and spinach baby dumplings served with lobster sauce
Home made green noodles with wild asparagus and fried basil
Whole-weat pasta with buffalo’s mozzarella and tomatoes
Ravioli with aubergines and goat-cheese filling in a fresh thyme sauce
Rosemary flavoured, pumpkin risotto served in a Parmesan cheese shell
Risotto with scampi and traditional Tuscan white beans
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FISH AND SHELLFISH
Charcoal grilled or baked catch of the day served with grilled vegetables
Turbot fillet in a rosemary flavoured potato crust, served with a roasted pepper pie
Deep fried scampi and baby squid, served with wild salad
Baked fillet of sea bass with fresh tomato and basil, served with sautéed vegetables in season
Traditional Thyrrenian thick soup of fish fillets, served with ginger flavoured polenta
Baked scampi with mustard sabayon served with a green vegetable salad, dressed with apple vinegar
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OUR SELECTION OF THE BEST ITALIAN CHEESES
A special blue cheese from sheep’s milk produced in Maremma. A little masterpiece
Castello de’ Pecorari Pecorino seasoned on planks of wood with twigs of Summer Savory
Natural Gorgonzola made from a double milking
Mature and hughtly sharp Montasio from Friuli region served with garlic aubergines in olive oil
Traditional Taleggio cheese from Taleggio Valley
Castel Magno from the Alps in the region of Cuneo matured from 4 to 8 months, served with red currant jam
Assorted goat cheeses served with dry tomatoes and quince jam
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SWEETS
Tiramisù
Iced parfait with raspberries and Limoncello liqueur
Ice-creams: Chocolate, vanille, coffee, pistachios
Small fruit tarts
Traditional sabayon with Marsala wine
Fruit salad with sorbets
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