At our place you can enjoy your staying and you can learn some of the recipes of the cuisine. To dine at our house is an especially gratifying experience, one which will not easily be forgotten.
The cooking is unique, drawn from a broad range of influences and styles by head chef Maria Lucia Simoes da Cunha who has devoted more than 20 years to researching and refining a gourmet cuisine to satisfy the most demanding palates.
Maria Lucia and husband Alberto, who have run a popular restaurant for many years, are supported by a team of highly-skilled chefs, helping produce a very personal style of cooking. Award-winning chef Maria Lucia is a great believer that every meal at Country House Montali should use only the finest quality and freshest ingredients, while aiming for nutritional balance.
Considering the small scale of this exclusive resort, those guests privileged enough to enjoy the exquisite quality of the cuisine may be pleasantly surprised to find that the food matches perfectly the beautiful setting of this country resort.
At its core lies a fusion of absolutely fresh local produce with an emphasis on flavor, color and texture. There is also enormous variety – from a delicate French-style vichysoisse soup to an Indonesian puff-pastry case stuffed with spicy vegetables. Yet the keynote always remains Mediterranean and Italian cooking.
You will have the opportunity to sample the finest local black truffles from Norcia as well as the sought-after “formaggio di fossa”, a rare cheese specially matured underground. To complement the cuisine perfectly, Alberto has built up a tailor-made list of Italian wines and is on hand to suggest the most appropriate wine for each meal.
The list covers most of the regions of Italy with samples of the most renowned areas of the country. You will have the chance to taste a wide range of wines from the famous Brunello or Barolo, to the lesser-known but equally fine naturally-fermented Regaleali from Sicily. Here, you can also request a tailor made diet, such as vegan, glutine free, dairy free, egg free, rennet free cheese. In those cases a 20% supplement will be charged.
The proprietors, who take personal care of the kitchen, opened one of the first vegetarian restaurant in Italy about twenty years ago and have been learning from many different Chefs from different parts of the world to elaborate themselves a "Vegeterranian" cuisine that could match the quality of Italian cuisine and "Gormet" vegetarian recipes.
The cookery courses are held from 16:30 to 20:00 pm,and are about 3,5 hours work. A complete four course menù is served for dinner, changing everyday and that will be taught to the people who will attain the course. It is mostly based on a starter, a "primo piatto" often home made pasta,also teaching this old form of art, a "secondo piatto" like tarts, timballs "parmigiana" and a dessert.
The goal has been a life challenge to try to show people that vegetarianism is not a healthy diet, based on "sufferance" but that everyone can enjoy real delicious meals,without use of meat and fish. Cost of each 3,5 hours lesson is of 70.00 Euro.
Faculty Information:
Maria Lucia and husband Alberto, who have run a popular restaurant for many years, are supported by a team of highly-skilled chefs, helping produce a very personal style of cooking.
Award-winning chef Maria Lucia is a great believer that every meal at our school should use only the finest quality and freshest ingredients, while aiming for nutritional balance.
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To dine at our school is an especially gratifying experience, one which will not easily be forgotten. Our school is the perfect antidote to stress and exhaustion.
The cooking is unique, drawn from a broad range of influences and styles by head chef Maria Lucia Simoes da Cunha who has devoted more than 20 years to researching and refining a gourmet cuisine to satisfy the most demanding palates.
Facility Information:
Nowadays there are few places on Earth where one can unwind in an atmosphere of absolute peace and tranquility. Firstly, one can relax in a family-run hotel which boasts only 10 rooms. The 10 guest rooms are arranged in three separate single-storey stone buildings, all designed by the proprietor, an architect who has specialized in restoring historic monuments.
Apart from the charm of the buildings, all the rooms are equipped with modern comforts: private facilities, telephone, hand-carved teakwood furniture, original oil paintings, and with patios or verandas to enjoy the cool evenings breezes and magnificent sunsets. But no TV to disturb the peace!
You can also be sure that in the swimming pool, with its breathtaking views over the surrounding countryside, there will never be more than a very small number of people. But the main reason our school has become such a sought-after spot is the gourmet vegetarian cuisine, which has also been featured in the BBC’s travel program.
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