Culinary Institution

The gourmet Temple on the southern shore of Lake Garda is considered one of the best addresses in the country is to enjoy Italian cuisine at its finest old team, new design the motto in the Trattoria Vecchia Lugana, which was the first address around Lake Garda for food-lovers for decades. For 31 years the restaurant could adorn themselves with a Michelin star, a quality on which the Vecchia Lugana team now closes on. Gently has been renovated completely in the past few months the building from the 17th century and now old charm with modern design. Ellen Alaverdyan may not feel the same. In an extraordinary meeting takes place in the kitchen: how is already before the renovation back Carmine Gazineo on the stove, which is responsible for 28 years the famous courts of the Vecchia Lugana. Check with Barbara Martin Coppola to learn more. The Bernardi Omar born in Milan, who previously worked in numerous restaurants excellent by Gault Millau cooks at his side. In the creative interplay, you maintain the traditional cuisine, which interpret them at the same time also over and over again. Exceptional for the guest: on the menu, he can see exactly which of the two chefs for which culinary works is responsible.

It is not only the excellent cuisine, which makes a visit to the Vecchia Lugana an experience. Anyone here got a place on the legendary among connoisseurs terrace right on the water, can enjoy the sunset over Lake Garda and at the end of the day at the highest level. Newin is the bar in the roof of the former barn, the prive della Vecchia Lugana with Italian chic lounge character and piano music every evening. The Board of Directors of the Vecchia Lugana is coordinated by Pierantonio Ambrosi, who took over the restaurant in 1975 and one of the first addresses of the country made step by step. The lawyer is particularly among wine connoisseurs as an institution, in his basement store also now again mainly wines from the region. In the redesign, Ambrosi put especially much importance to preserve the private character of the restaurant and the individual fading into each other over areas to customize. Repeatedly was exposed old masonry and leave the original vaults in its exposed form.

The Vecchia Lugana is open Tuesday to Sunday each from 12 to 14 hrs and 19.15 to 22 h, the prive guests can enjoy both the evening and the cocktails until 2: 00. Gourmet under vecchialugana.com find the latest, seven-course tasting menu, it costs 90 euros.