What time does La Mezzaluna open?

La Mezzaluna opens at 8:00 AM on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

What time does La Mezzaluna close?

La Mezzaluna closes at 11:00 PM on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Mon-Sun 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Does La Mezzaluna have free WiFi?

Yes, La Mezzaluna has free WiFi.

Specialties

Have fun and join our cookery and wine tasting holiday in this beautiful part of Northern Tuscany. Combine cooking and wine tasting and learn all the basic Italian cooking techniques and traditions la bella "Garfagnana and Serchio Valley has to offer. We will visit our local market, wander the streets of Barga, known as one of the prettiest villages in Italy and we shall visit Lucca and Pisa .The most part of the time there are concerts, folk festivals, outdoor food festivals (where you can savour typical products), theatre, Barga Jazz and the Opera Barga. Available is my 4 night and 7 night holiday which includes accomodation all meals airport and local transfers,cooking and wine tasting sessions plus live entertainment with Alex. You may want to join my daily lesson which lasts 4 hours and we will then savour together our meal prepared with a glass of finest Tuscan wine. Come to La Mezzaluna and Cook and Dine with Rita Tuscan Style..

History

Established in 1986.

The business is called La Mezzaluna and is in a beautiful part of Northern Tuscany with fantastic south facing views from the terrace, just 2 miles from the town of Barga. The complex has 3 apartments,( a 4 bed and 2 x2 bed apartments plus 3 doublerooms en-suite which can house up to 26 people. Bed and Breakfast in the winter time is normally full with local workers while in summer time the apartments are usually full with tourists and descendants of Ex Barga people who emigrated to many parts of the world a hundred years ago. Our restaurant is available for our hotel guests and for special occasion dinners on reservation. La Mezzaluna is also a cooking school and offers daily cookery courses and cooking holidays together with accomodation.

Meet the Business Owner: Rita L.

My background is indeed a typical one. My parents and grandparents, originally from the Barga area emigrated to Scotland where like many other italian emigrants opened their own catering business. During my informative years I gradually immersed myself in the culture, customs and traditions of my parents and grandparents and in particular their culinary cultures. I studied the ancient secrets and techniques of the traditional Tuscan cooking and kept alive certain recipes that lost popularity in the fast food era. A vegatable sformato, castagnaccio and necci are just some of the local delicacies of which later generations have little perception, even those born in Italy. I have now been in Barga for almost 30 years running my Bed and Breakfast and holiday apartments and have now opened my cooking school.