Tasting Menu 1
 
Welcome appetizer
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Cuttlefish soup flavoured with fresh laurel and its ravioli filled with tomato, peas, potatoes and saffron
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"Fagottini" (pasta)with fennel and red prawns from Mazara, Burrata sauce, and rosemary beef reduction
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Pappardelle with Guinea fowl ragout, spinaches and asparagus
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Loin of baby pork with fennel seeds sauce, roll of leek, mushrooms and potatoes, stewed mandarins
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or:
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Tuna "tagliata" (slices underdone inside)served with a spicy capers sauce, potato croquette and rice flavoured with mint OR Loin of baby pork with fennel seeds sauce, roll of leek filled with mushrooms and potatoes, stewed mandarins
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Hazelnut waffle with ricotta cream aromatized with lemon, served with kiwi and a frappato wine and red fruits jelly
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80,00 €   per person

 
    Mineral waters
Spumante Brut Metodo Classico '07 Murgo - flute € 7,00
Champagne Brut "Albert Le Brun" Vielle France flute € 10,00
Franciacorta Brut "Bellavista" - flute € 9,00
 
Sparkling natural mineral water "Ferrarelle"   € 5,00
Sparkling mineral water "Surgiva"   € 5,00
Sparkling mineral water "S.Pellegrino"   € 5,00
Softly saprkling water "Filette"   € 6,00
Natural mineral water "Dolomia"   € 5,00
Natural mineral water "Surgiva"   € 5,00
Sparkling mineral water "Solè"   € 8,00
Appetizers

Cuttlefish ravioli filled with potato and saffron, peas, tomato, served with cuttlefish soup and its ink, aromatized with laurel.   € 25,00


Soup of Ustica lentils and “caprino girgentano” ( goat’s cheese from the Agrigento area), flavoured with curry and served with black pig sausage from Nebrodi mountains.   € 20,00


Warm terrine of rabbit and pistachio nut, served on a mescaline salad and garnished with red currants and balsamic vinegar reduction.   € 20,00


A selection of six Italian and world’s finest cheeses, served with prickly pear honey.   € 20,00


Cover and service   € 4,00


 




 

Firsts Courses

'Gramigna e Tenerumi': a courgette cylinder stuffed with a small pasta (gramigna), tender courgette leaves (tenerumi) and caciocavallo D.O.P. cheese, with tomato coulis and a hint of garlic.   € 20,00


Tagliolini pasta with baby squid, Sicilian Badda beans, fresh tomatoes and basil.   € 20,00


Warm salad of paccheri pasta with amberjack, sautéed peppers, tomatoes, capers and a hint of basil.   € 20,00


Ravioli filled with baked ricotta, fried courgettes and citron, served with tuna botargo (salted and dried tuna roe) from the island of Favignana and aromatized with Nocellara olive oil.   € 20,00


Little dumplings (“gnocchetti”) of French purple potatoes and chestnut with dried porcini mushrooms ragu, peppers and oregano.   € 22,00


Garganelli (quill shaped egg pasta) with guinea fowl aromatized with rosemary and served with courgettes and spinach leaves.   € 20,00


 
Mains Courses

Mackerel fillet in a” sfincione” sauce with courgettes and aubergines.   € 20,00


Dolphin fish fillets rolled in a tomato crust with a potatoes emulsion and aromatic herbs, served with black olives sauce and Biancolilla olive oil.   € 24,00


Dome of egg with red prawns from Mazzara, sautéed asparagus and “guanciale”( smoked pig’s cheeks), in prawn bisque.   € 30,00


Suckling pig napped in a fennel sented pork reduction , served with a artichoke and broad strudel and liquorice beer foam.   € 28,00


Boned Quail and prunes cooked in a marsala wine reduction served on a Cannellini beans and celeriac pureè   € 24,00


Beef fillet in crust of toasted bread on a "pizzaiola" sauce, buffalo's milk mozzarella and oregano.   € 24,00




 




Dessert and raccommended wines

Fresh fruit mille feuille stacked in a chantilly cream and a fruit of the forest sauce € 10.00 Moscato di Noto "Baroque" '07 Rudini   € 10,00


Moscato di Noto "Baroque" '07   € 6,00


Round hazelnut wafer with a ricotta cream fragranced with lemon, with kiwi and aspic in red wine and red fruits   € 10,00


Marsala Fine Rubino Pellegrino   € 7,00


Hot cassatella with chocolate studded ricotta cream   € 8,00


Perpetuo di Cerasa Guccione   € 7,00


"Guanajà chocolate caprese cake with a banana sauce and caramelised pineapple, fragranced with mint.   € 10,00


Rum "Don Armando" A. Bermudez & Co.   € 6,00


Apple and amaretti tart on a vanilla cream with black cherries in syrup   € 10,00


Il Musico Moscato Passito Benanti   € 6,00


Il Musico Moscato Passito Benanti   € 6,00


Il Musico Moscato Passito Benanti   € 6,00