Gourmet Cuisine |
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 sous chefs, helping produce a very personal style of cooking.
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 flavour, colour 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.
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.
In the Country House Montali,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.
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.
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The cookery book English edition |
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The cookery book Dutch edition |
If you are too busy to come to Montali and still you would like to try our cuisine, you can always find inspiration in our cookbook. The book has been a real best seller with more then 60.000 copies sold in 7 different countries. It has won the price as “Best vegetarian cookbook of the year” in Uk. Best translated cookbook and the prestigious “Best vertaalde kookboek” in the Netherland. But dont forget to come here to experience the real Montali’s cusine…