The Memory of the Good Flavors of the Past
For the catering we are open on Friday and Saturday for lunch and dinner, Sunday and holidays for lunch.
For a group of at least 10 people we also open the other days always by reservation.
There is the possibility to choose between the fixed menu and the daily dishes of the la carte menu.
Our indicative fixed menu consists of:
Appetizers: (indicatively: salami, bacon and cup, fresh Montevecchia cheese, omelette with zucchini, savory cake with leeks and sausage, savory cake with spinach and ricotta, sweet and sour vegetables, crouton with honey and local cheese, vegetables in sweet and sour);
First courses (a risotto: with sausage and Merlot, with porcini mushrooms, with sparkling brut and rosemary, with blueberries,...; and a fresh pasta: lasagne, crepes, ravioli, casoncelli,...);
Seconds of meat with polenta and side dishes;
Two desserts: a cake ( fresh fruit tart or jam); a dessert spoon ( panna cotta, tiramisu or crema catalana)
Coffee and digestive
The price per person, including water and excluding wine, is € 45.00. The wines of our production or local wineries are in bottle and cost from 12.00 to 24.00 euros.
On request they prepare vegetarian dishes and for people intolerant to lactose.
For children there is the possibility of a menu with tomato pasta or lasagne with meat sauce, cutlet with baked potatoes and dessert for € 15.00.
Special menu or customized for celebrations, ceremonies and business meetings.
Almost all the ingredients of the menu are of our production (wine, cold cuts, honey, vegetables, fruit, etc.) and/ or local farms of carefully selected.
In summer you can also eat outdoors, and in the late afternoon on Sunday you can taste wines accompanied by platters with meats, cold cuts and vegetables.
From the Ratta farmhouse (Cassina Rata with the dialectal word rata, steep and woody hill), traces have been found since the 16th century (about 1571), when it was inhabited by a 'family' (in the patriarchal sense) composed of 9 'souls'.
The farmhouse is located in the center of the Curone Valley Regional Park of Montevecchia and Valle del Curone) framed by a splendid hilly landscape, on the 'road' that long ago, most likely, connected Perego to the Merate plain.
For these paths have crossed the various populations that have inhabited the valley and its surroundings, from the Celts to the Lombards, from the Ligurians to the Romans, leaving traces of toponyms and traditions.