The Country House Montali's Reviews

When food has been prepared with this much care and imagination,it doesn’t really matter whether  is animal,mineral or vegetable.It’s just have been good food. 
BBC “Summer holiday program”.

So Italy's first gourmet vegetarian restaurant-hotel, Country House Montali, is almost holiday heaven …..When food is this fantastico…  explode the myths surrounding vegetarian food and show it too can reach the level of technical excellence that earns Michelin stars. (Read the article)
The Observer

The Country House Montali really does have an enviable location.Stay in one of the beautiful appointed rooms…and you can sit and watch the sun rise over the hills before breakfast,then watch it set again before you head off for one of Lucia’s sublime four-courses dinner.
Tesco Magazine

The chefs at Montali are magicians and artists. Just observe the delight on the diners' faces when the food is served - and the expressions of ecstasy when they taste it. It is certainly a rare privilege to stay somewhere so idyllic and to find food to match the decor and scenery!
Glynn Thomas

Many prestigious Guide as well, gave room to the Country House Montali:Karen Brown is one of the best for small charming Hotel in U.S.A., as well as Rick Steve'one.Michelin guide did the same, and the french “Guide de Charme” wich is a renown editor for “Small charming Hotels”.

How to be a Good Hotelier

An Hotelier must be a diplomat, a democrat, an autocrat, an acrobat, and a doormat. He must have the facility to entertain Prime Ministers, princes of industry, pickpockets, gamblers, bookmakers, pirates, philanthropists, popsies and prudes.

He must be on both sides of the political fence, and be able to jump that fence.

He should be, or have been, a footballer, golfer, bowler, tennis player, cricketer, darts player, sailor, pigeon fancier, motor racer and linguist, as well as have a good knowledge of any other sport involving dice, cards, horse racing and billiards.

This is most useful, as he has sometimes to settle arguments and squabbles. He must, therefore, be a qualified boxer, wrestler, weight-lifter, sprinter and peacemaker.

 He must always look immaculate, when drinking with the ladies and gentlemen mentioned in the second paragraph, as well as bankers, swankers, theatricals, commercial travellers and company representatives - even though he has just made peace between any of the two, four, six or more of the aforementioned patrons.

To be successful, an hotelier must keep the bar full, the house full, the store rooms full, the wine cellar full, the customers full, and not get full himself. He must have staff who are clean, honest, quick workers, quick thinkers, non-drinkers, mathematicians, technicians, and at all times on the boss's side, the customer's side, and stay on the outside of the bar. To sum up: The hotelier must be outside, inside, offside, glorified, sanctified, crucified, stupefied, cross-eyed - and if he is not the strong, silent type, there is always suicide.

With the courtesy of Henry Togna
Owner of hotel “22 Jermyn Street” - St James's - London.

British television Channel Five as well as I.T.V. have introduce the property in some of their programs.
Last but not the least the B.B.C. has filmed a “Summer Holiday Program” here.
In a world of bigger and bigger hotel chains,The Country House Montali still manage to offer a professional service,with one of the best “gourmet cuisine”,all in the privacy of a “only ten rooms place”,and without ending in a snobbish atmosphere,like often happen in small charming resorts.

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See here the crew of British Broadcasting televisions .