Crumbled dry bread, egg and cheese dumplings in tomato sauce.
Allergeni (4-5-9-10-12)
Eggplant flan with scamorza cheese served with a creamy parmesan sauce and almonds.
Allergens (1-4-9-10-12)
Bread with scamorza cheese, anchovy and porcini mushrooms.
Allergens (4-6-9-10)
Bread with scamorza cheese, anchovy and roasted peppers.
Allergens (4-6-9-10)
Bread with scamorza cheese, and ham.
For vegetarians without ham
For celiac without bruschetta (bread)
Allergeni (4-9-10)
Arrosticini, mutton skewered homemade.
Mutton tartar served with quail eggs and seasoning.
Allergens (5) – Allergens condiments (ask to room staff)
Porchetta (roast pork) served on homemade bread. (mignon)
For celiac without bread.
Allergens (9-10)
Thinly sliced Vasto ventricina , a lean and slightly spicy black pork salami, served with sweet red pepper from Altino
, and bruschetta.
Allergens (9-10)
Cured meats selection, including Salsiccia di fegato di Paganica , and spreadable ventricina teramana on bruschetta. (Not always all the products are available)
For celiac without bruschetta
Allergens (9-10)
Pecorino cheese selection, including Canestrato di Castel del Monte , and spreadable ”Marcetto” on bruschetta, served with red onion homemade mustard.
For celiac without bruschetta.
Allergens (4-9-10-14)
Selection of typical deli meats and cheeses including Canestrato di Castel del Monte pecorino , Paganica liver sausage
, ham, spreadable ventricina teramana on bruschetta and spreadable ”Marcetto” on bruschetta, served with red onion homemade mustard.
For celiac without bruschetta.
Allergens (4-9-10-14)
Navelli chickpea soup (AQ) .
Allergens (12)
Santo Stefano di Sessanio lentil soup served with Avezzano (AQ) bread croutons.
For celiac without bread.
Allergens (9-10-12)
Short ribbon pasta made with flour and water, served in a soup with beans and chili pepper
Allergens (9-10-12)
Small dumplings made with flour from Solina and served in a soup with chickpeas from Navelli
(AQ).
Allergens (9-10-12)
“Cazzelletti” are a type of flour and water dumpling (typical of Scanno near L’Aquila), which are sauteed with turnip greens or broccoli (depending on the availability of the products) and served together with anchovies and chilli .
For vegetarians and vegans without anchovies.
Allergens (6-10-9-12)
Home made spaghetti served with ragu three meats (pork, beef, sheep).
Allergens (4-5-9-10-12)
Potato dumplings (IGP) served with mutton sauce.
Allergens (5-9-10-12)
Home made spaghetti served with mutton sauce and pecorino cheese.
Allergens (4-5-9-10-12)
Potato dumplings (IGP) served with ragu three meats (pork, beef, sheep).
Allergens (5-9-10-12)
Pappardelle (thick flat ribbons of pasta) topped with wild boar sauce.
Allergens (5-9-10-12-14)
Tagliatelle (ribbon pasta), served with white ragout lamb, lemon, juniper and Canestrato di Castel del Monte cheese .
Allergeni (5-9-10-12-14)
Handmade ricotta and spinach ravioli with tomato sauce, basil, pork cheek and cheese.
For vegetarians without pork cheek.
Allergeni (4-5-9-10-12)
Fusilloni (pasta) served with pumpkin cream and Navelli saffron.
Allergeni (4-10)
Braised mutton with tomato, chilli pepper and mountain herbs.
Allergens(12)
Braised mutton with mountain herbs.
Allergens(12)
Grilled IGP lamb from the Majella reserve.
Beef cheek cooked at low temperature in Montepulciano d’Abruzzo wine, and served on light polenta.
Allergens (4-12-14)
Flank steak of “Black Angus” grilled.
*Tripe in a tomato, onion, chili pepper, bay leaf sauce.
Allergens (12)
Arrosticini, mutton skewered homemade (6 pieces), served with tomato bruschetta.
For celiac without bruschetta (bread).
Allergens (9-10)
Homemade pork sausage with sautéed chicory .
Homemade pork liver sausage with sautéed chicory
.
Grilled sheep ribs.
Homemade sheep burger (without bread) with peppers from Altino , served with baked potatoes.
Allergens (5-13)
Lamb cooked at low temperature.
Allergens (12)
*Lightly steamed chicory sautéed with olive oil, Sulmona red garlic and chilli .
Allergens (12)
Roasted red peppers with Sulmona red garlic, olive oil and parsley.
A selection of our desserts: Tiramisù, Ricotta molla, Parrozzo.
Allergens (1-4-5-9-10)
Best with: Genziana, Amaro Jannamico, Ratafia.
A selection of our desserts: Tiramisù, Ricotta molla, Cherries ice-cream.
Allergens (1-4-5-9-10-14)
Best with: Genziana, Amaro Jannamico, Ratafia.
Tiramisù with homemade cantucci biscuits, coffee, mascarpone cream and cocoa.
Allergens (1-4-5-9-10)
Best with: Genziana, Rum, Whisky.
Ricotta cheese mousse with centerba liqueur jelly.
Allergens (4)
Best with: Centerba, Sambuca alla centerba, Genziana.
Abruzzese dessert made with sponge cake, chocolate, cream and alchermes liqueur.
Allergens (1-4-5-9-10)
Best with: Grappe, Genziana.
Dark chocolate cake with “warm heart” , ratafia ice-cream and red berries and fruits
Allergens (4-5-10-14)
Best with: Grappe, Rum,Whisky.
The parrozzo, with finely pounded almonds, baked in the shape of a dome and completely covered in chocolate, is a traditional cake from Pescara. The famous Italian poet and author Gabriele D’Annunzio dedicated a poem to this delicious dessert.
Allergens (1-4-5-9-10)
Best with: Rum, Whisky.
Semifreddo (frozen mousse) of “parrozzo” (almond dessert) and covered in chocolate.
Allergens (1-4-5)
Best with: Rum, Whisky.
Home made lemon sorbet.
Nonino
Nonino invecchiata
Domenis
Bonaventura Maschio
Domenis
Francois Peyrot
Remì Martin
Coquerel
Gelas
The name ”Il Capestrano” was chosen in honor of a marble statue of an ancient
warrior, dating back to the sixth century BC, that was found in Capestrano, in the
province of L’Aquila.
The massive sculpture, taller than eight feet (2,53 mt) and carved from a single
block of local stone, was found in 1934, but is still surrounded by an aura of
mystery. There are several researchers in the world who are still attempting to
decrypt all the elements of this magnificent work of art. You can admire “Guerriero
di Capestrano” at the National Museum of Abruzzo in Chieti.
The Cuisine
Our culinary approach begins from the search of raw materials and rural traditions in the regional territory. From a careful and skilled elaboration of these food products, our dishes become the perfect compromise between tradition and innovation. Goods such as the “Navelli” saffron, the olive oil of the “Aprutino Pescarese” consortium, the “Farindola” pecorino cheese, the “Castel del Monte Canestrato” (a special hard cheese obtained from whole fat sheep’s milk), the Sulmona red garlic and the unlimited range of local cured meats (ventricina vastese, a very rich salami, “Campotosto Mortadella”, a special salami with a lard white heart, liver sausages, schiacciata aquilana, a tasty flattened shaped salami), right to the sweetness of the National Park honey and jams. The typical dish reveals the great significance of herding in Abruzzo.
Along side the food, one must also take into consideration the wide range of liqueurs from the area: the famous saffron liqueur, the walnut liqueur, the ratafia, a lemon peel flavoured liqueur or cordial, the gentian liqueur or the centerba (literally “one hundred herbs”), a light green colour liqueur made of several digestive and aromatic herbs.