THE RESTAURANT: OUR SUGGESTED MENUS

Our 80 seat restaurant features a large lounge and a 20 seat private room.

MENUS INSPIRED BY FAMILY AND SEASONALITY OF THE PRODUCTS

Our cuisine is both homemade and seasonal. Raw materials vary according to seasons and our products are typical of our territory. Our proposals change daily, in order to satisfy every customer’s taste and make them feel at home.

FIXED PRICES MENU

We offer a 12Euros, fixed-price lunch menu from Monday to Saturday. You can choose a main, a second course and a side dish among our daily specials. Water and coffee included. Most of the dishes belong to our tradition, like pasta with homemade meat sauce or pesto made with arugula, red chicory and fennel fronds, personally prepared by our cook. Soups are always present in our menu: a hot dish to warm people working outside in winter, but also a perfect liquid supplement for hot summer days. Vegetable soups are made with fresh vegetables that we grow in our garden, but we also suggest vegetables purée, chicken or boiled meat soups, pumpkin, peas or beans cream according to the season. On Tuesdays we usually make “risotto” with a stock of boiled meat or asparagus in spring, blueberries and mushrooms in summer, pumpkin and sausage and our typical “panissa” rice in autumn. Our winter specialty is risotto with spinach and hazelnuts or red chicory. Meat plays an important role in our cuisine and they are proposed in different kind of cuts and cooking methods: grilled meat, roast beef, roast and mixed boiled meats based on Piedmont tradition. Once a week ,usually on Fridays, we cook fish (both freshwater and saltwater fish).

Off-the-Menu

Because of the variety of our suggestions, we chose not to have any ” à la carte” menu; however, if guests have particular request, we’ll do our best to please them.

Starters

The “Piatto Rustico della Locanda” is a dish including sliced cold meats, combined with pickled vegetable and is served as a starter.

Cheese

Cheese come from our local selection: Toma and Maccagno from our Sessera Valley, Gorgonzola from the near town of Novara, together with other famous Italian cheese bought in dairy farms (like Montasio, from Friuli, our region of origin) or directly from sellers (like Pecorino from Sardinia).

Fruit

Fresh fruit, fruit salad and stewed fruit available according to the season.

Desserts

All our desserts are homemade, with the exception of ice-cream. We usually offer soft and spongy cakes, parfaits and spoon dessert recipes.

Arranged Menus

Our wide lounge and our private room are the ideal venue to organize lunch or dinner on important occasions or events. Prices range from Euro 30 up to 45, based on the number and value of chosen courses. You can select starters (both meat and fish), traditional, modern and tasty at the presentation dishes and add particular request while the menu is being agreed.

BUSINESS LAUNCH OR DINNER

Our private room is the perfect place to have lunch or dinner while talking about business. Our confidentiality will make you feel like you’re sitting in your meeting room .

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION – CONFIRMATION –CHRISTENING – BIRTHDAY – ANNIVERSARY LUNCH

Special events are part of our history. Hundreds of kids have celebrated their special occasion by us. The lounge is set with vases of fresh flowers specially selected for the occasion, table setting is cared for in every detail and menus are customized and personalized. The room can be personally decorated by the customers or the event planners: we do our best to satisfy our customers’ exigencies. Music parties are also welcome. The planners shall contact SIAE and provide us with the price schedule of selected songs in order to comply with the provision of copyright and to avoid unpleasant inconveniences.

Weddings

We organize weddings for a maximum number of 60 guests. Menus and lounge setting are customized according to customers’ needs.

Half and Full board

People staying at our hotel can also enjoy our cuisine. We offer both half and full board rates with nights, Italian breakfast and dinner included at fixed price. Dinner time runs from 7 to 8,30 pm. The restaurant is also open to the public at the same time upon reservation for personalized menus. Hours of operation may vary according to guests particular necessities.

Themed Menus

We occasionally prepare some themed lunch or dinner, by giving the priority to traditional menus such as “Fritto Misto alla Piemontese” (an assortment of mixed fried food) or “Bagna Cauda” (an anchovy and garlic cream). Guests can book such themed menus for a minimum of 10 people.

FRITTO MISTO ALLA PIEMONTESE (ASSORTMENT OF MIXED FRIED FOOD)

This typical dish of Piedmont region includes about 20 small serving of sweet and salted, fried food. We generally make fried bovine sweetbreads and brains, semolina, polenta (boiled and fried corn flour), sausage, Parmesan cheese, Ascolana olives and battered seasonal vegetables. Sweet servings include beignets, custard, apples, pineapples and amaretti (typical Italian cookies made with almonds).

Bagna Cauda

This typical dish of Piedmont region includes about 20 small serving of Bagna Cauda is served in the traditional clay bowls (heated by the flame of a candle placed below) and accompanied with raw and cooked vegetables, raw meat and fresh eggs.

Our Wines

Our wine list gathers all the wineries of our territory, particularly from Lessona. We’re lucky to live in a country rich in excellent wine and one in particular, Lessona wine, was used to toast at the Unification of Italy. That’s why we chose to not buy any other wine, apart from some bottles of Dolcetto and Barbera to open up to Piedmont more in general.