Ciotola In Grottaminarda

15/05/2024: The visit to this restaurant is also worth it just for the place in which it is located which remains its real strong point. In the heart of the Picentini natural park. In the locality of Fontigliano di Nusco. Easily accessible by car, although the access road is a bit ruined in some places with bumps, ditches and depressions. At the end you arrive in front of the ancient Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria di Fontigliano, of late medieval foundation and today in Gothic style after the restorations of the late nineteenth century. There is also a welcoming naturalistic equipped area and above all one of the most interesting nature trails branches out among the beech woods of the park, up to Montagnone di Nusco and from there to Lake Laceno. The restaurant, in rustic style, has a perhaps a little excessive number of seats. But that's it. We visited it on a holiday with many people, and perhaps for this reason the service was quite distracted and superficial. As for the food, which is what interests us, the Maccaronara with meat sauce is really good, which is a dish we recommend. Handmade pasta with the right degree of roughness to better adhere the ragù. The ravioli had a fresh and enjoyable ricotta filling, a shame about the sauce with porcini mushrooms and truffles, which was weak and a little wasteful. The house starters cannot be judged, due to the very small quantity of products served, with a slice of ham, a coppa and little else that I no longer remember.

24/02/2024: Da ritornare tutte le volte che mi è possibile