“Tasting Menu”
 
“Our specialities”
 
Welcome appetizer
 
Five' taste and texture sensations' of raw seafood variety
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"Anelletti" (small sicilian rings of pasta) with Octopus poached in Nero d'Avola wine with wild fennel and a hint of saffron
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Bombardoni pasta coated in breadcrumbs filled with artichokes on a dried tomato sauce
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Boned lamb doused in a tyme and anchiovies sauce, served with artichoke strudel
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Tournedos of tuna on a Cantalupo melon sauce, with basil mayonnaise, tuna botargo (salted and dried fish roe) from the island of Favignana and aubergine chips
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70 €  per person
 

 
      Mineral waters  
Brut metodo Classico '05 Murgo flute
€ 7.00
  Natural mineral water "Rocchetta"
€ 4.00
Champagne Brut "Albert Le Brun" Vielle France flute
€ 10.00
  Sparkling natural mineral water "Valverde"
€ 5.00
      Natural mineral water "Dolomia"
€ 6.00
      Sparkling natural mineral water "Solè"
€ 8.00
Appetizers
 
Local rock fish, cream of wild leafy green vegetables, smoked salmon
polenta and oyster tartare
€ 28.00
 
Cuttlefish ravioli filled with potato and saffron, peas, tomato, served with cuttlefish soup and its ink, aromatized with laurel.
€ 25.00
 
Lobster browned with vanilla stick, dressed with pine nuts sauce and candied ginger, served with red pepper foam.
€ 32.00
 
Ricotta timbale with lemon fragranced Ferla mushrooms, served in Ferla mushrooms sauce with a hint of anchovies and parsley foam.
€ 20.00
 
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
 
Cheeses
 
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