BBofItaly.it is always focused on the unknown Best and Beauty of Italy. We think that the l’Elisir del Poeta restaurant perfectly represents this focus of BBofItaly.it !
It is highly reductive to define l’Elisir del Poeta – the poet’s elixir – as a mere restaurant. It represents a real lifestyle that has a lot to do with food.
Barbara and Andrea, a local pair, have chosen a few years ago to spend their lives in Santo Stefano di Sessanio, a medieval hamlet located in Abruzzo region.
To better understand what this means, you should visit the part of Abruzzo region where the hamlet is located. This is a very harsh land, where daily life finds his foundations and its true reasons. A life strongly linked to the land and seasons.
Coming back to l’Elisir del Poeta, it is located in a tiny house and inside there is a room with tables for a total of only twelve sits. The furnishing is very particular, and the atmosphere is difficult to describe due to its uniqueness.
Barbara is busy in the kitchen, preparing her dishes with products donated by the earth, and Andrea serves them at the tables, telling how there are made, but above all what is the reason for life behind these dishes.
For what we have describe above, you can understand that it is not easy to tell Barbara’s dishes in detail. So here we provide a mere description of some of them, and of course if you want to know more about this place you must give it a try !
However compliments form BBofItaly.it to Barbara and Andrea !
We started our experience with a basket of fantastic toasted slices of bread soaked with pure olive oil (A). The bread come from San Gregorio, a tiny hamlet in Abruzzo with a fantastic bakery which still uses natural and typical flours.
Furthermore we also tasted the following four different dishes: (B) San Marzano dried tomatoes with mint leaves, cracked wheat and red beetroot, sheep’s ricotta (a very delicate local cheese), and last but not least Sheep’s Canestrato and aged Canestrato (it is a typical cheese form Castel del Monte, a village of Abruzzo).
Then we tasted: spelled with dandelion leaves and flowers (C), chickpeas from Navelli, a village of Abruzzo (D), Primo Sale (a special kind of cheese) with toasted almonds (E).
The experience followed with lentil and oat soup (F), Crepes stuffed with ricotta cheese (G).
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