Get the best of both Roman and Sicilian traditions and hospitality at this friendly dinner in Rome. Experience both local cuisines and wines in a beautiful home in central Rome.
• Feast on 4 courses plus a side dish and fresh fruit combining Roman and Sicilian culinary traditions, sourced with farm-to-table ingredients • Aperitif, carefully selected local wines, and digestif are included • In a charming, spacious apartment in a building from the 1920s, located in an elegant neighborhood full of beautiful villas between Trastevere and the Gianicolo hill. The apartment is furnished with family antiques and modern objects • Communal dining for 4 to 10 people • Claudia and Francesco are two Sicilian cousins who live in Rome. Claudia is also a Sommelier
About your host, Claudia & Francesco: "Claudia is a Sicilian living in Rome since 1990 and a professor of painting conservation at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome. Francesco is her cousin, a scenographer and costume designer at the Opera."
See the menu
The following menù is indicative and can change according to the seasonality and to special conditions ... but always good, tasty, local and genuine ..........!!!
Assorted Appetisers accompanied by "bollicine" (Italian Champagne)
Starters Roman dumplings semolina with butter and parmesan cheese or Crostini with tomatoes and bufala's mozzarella or Crostini with truffle omelette or ... .... many others
First Courses Tonnarelli "Cacio e Pepe" with aged pecorino and pepper or Pasta with fresh ricotta cheese, Bronte's pistachios and dry tomatoes or Pasta "Gricia" with cheek lard roasted and aged pecorino or Pasta with pesto of capers, olives, wild fennel and anchovies or .... ... many others
Second Courses "Saltimbocca" alla romana or Roasted Sicilian veal meat rolls with cheese, ham, raisin and pine nuts or Roasted Sicilian sward fish rolls with breadcrumbs, pine nuts and raisin or "Bollito misto" with various flavoured sauces or "Parmigiana" di melanzane or ... ... many others
Side Dishes Baked potatoes or different kind of seasonal vegetables sautéed or baked tomatoes and seasonal salads
Desserts "Tiramisù" with mascarpone cream, sugar, coffee or Roman "Millefoglie" with chantilly cream or "Savarin" Ron Babà with white cream or ... ... many others