by Bill Spohn » Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:54 pm
Good write up, Jeff. It certainly is great fun to stumble across really good food in unlikely surroundings.
We found most of our best food outside the tourist areas. We were travelling up a long winding road in Western Italy (it ended eventually at a rustic town where they made local cheese and you could buy some if you could find the farmer (we got him out of the barn, feeding his goats) and converse in 'Italish'. We booked into the only hotel in many kilos at Pradleves after visiting the cheese men, and found that they were doing a multi course dinner and they just tacked us on to that. Small interesting courses kept coming along with carafes of local wines for several hours. Couldn't have planned it better!
PS - SWMBO found her notebook. The restaurant was called Albergo Tre Verge d'Oro in Cuneo, and there were nine courses in the dinner along with a different wine for each