La Cena, An Italian Dinner

Meals that use market-fresh ingredients and inherited family recipes.  We offer you the rare opportunity to be invited into a private Italian home and learn the key elements that go into creating a traditional, home-cooked Italian meal.

Located on the Aventine hill, perhaps the most elegant of Rome's famed seven, our chef, Daniela, and her welcoming home will play host to our gastronomic tutorial. We begin with a crisp glass of prosecco, paired with tasty appetizers, or antipasti. Daniela will then invite us into her fully equipped kitchen to demonstrate, step by step, the preparations to creating a seasonal first course (pasta or rice), a hearty second course (usually meat or fish), paired with fitting side dishes of fresh vegetables. Each course will reflect the key fundamentals of classic Mediterranean cuisine. As we will quickly see, the food created at home is quite different from what appears on most restaurant menus. Thus, we will get a glimpse of a more genuine food culture that many tourists, unfortunately, do not experience.

In the summer we will have the pleasure of dining al fresco in the garden, in the winter months, we will retire to the cozy dining room. Over dinner, we will not only reflect on the mechanics behind the creation of the typical Italian meal but enjoy the atmosphere that only a home-cooked dinner can provide.

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