It has been over two years since we ate at this restaurant, and I still fantasize about it…read more
We stumbled across this gem on a casual drive to Grosseto-Prugna and decided to take our chances. Lady Luck smiled on us that afternoon--apparently she, too, had just eaten there--as we settled into a meal that can only be described as divine.
I started with the Corsican salad, which was sprinkled with ham and coppa divinity. If I hadn't been so thoroughly famished I would have stopped there and died a happy man ... but then my stomach DM'd me to say that we weren't done.
We were seated near the wood burning fireplace, where the chef would bring cuts of meat to cook like it was the 18th century. A Rome, fais comme les Romains! I had a steak (medium-rare) with all of the trimmings, and what I recall to be some sort of cacciatore style sauce.
The service was slow, deliberate, and thoughtful. The bread was piping hot and delicious. Nothing was rushed, because there's no rational reason on the planet to rush a meal like this. The heavens want you to slow down, put your phone away (mine turned itself off out of respect), and take in the smell of the fireplace and the feats of culinary magic wafting through the air.
