Did you know? 2018 will be the year of Italian food, celebrating the Italian gastronomic and wine heritage and the links between gastronomy, landscape, art and culture.
However, the term “Italian food” is too generic! It is much richer and diverse, although for many non-Italians pasta, risotto or pizza are synonymous with Italian cuisine. In fact there are many types of Italian food, as many as regions!
Food and wine are two pillars of the Tuscan culture. Inherited from rural tradition, it is made of simple products: locally sourced, fresh, seasonal and tasty, such as tomato, eggplant, peppers, beans with regard to vegetables, beef, wild boar, rabbit, chicken, with regard to meat. Everything is cooked with locally produced extra virgin olive oil… With these dishes, simple but tasty, accompanied by exquisite wines, and especially the Chianti Classico, you taste Tuscany!
And Villa le Barone serves traditional Tuscan food, prepared, with local fresh products by our Tuscan cooks. The extra virgin olive oil, with ecolabel, comes either from the olive grove of Villa le Barone, or that of our farm in Maremma. Beef, also eco-certified, comes from our breeding free limousines cows… and in July, August, and September, tomatoes so tasty also come from our farm.
The dinner menu is a typical Italian menu. First, the traditional antipasti buffet to whet your appetite, with various regional charcuteries, colorful salads, marinated or dried vegetables… Then a “primo” (different kinds of pasta prepared in various ways, or risotto, or soups such as the Ribollita), then a “secondo”, meat or poultry or “bistecca alla Fiorentina”, or a vegetarian dish, finally dessert, with a choice of ice cream or homemade sherbet. You can eat as much cheese and fruit as you wish on the buffet…
The candlelight dinner is served in the restaurant or if the weather permits on the terrace in the greenery!
The famous composer Gioacchino Rossini has written: “An Italian meal is like an opera!” Come in Tuscany and celebrate Italian food and gastronomy, and at the same time relax and immerse yourself in the beauty of Chianti at Villa le Barone!