Orvieto game specialty restaurant
At Giovanni's garden you can taste a wide selection of second courses based on meat and game.
All lovers of good food and the Umbrian gastronomic tradition will find in the Il Giardino da Giovanni restaurant the ideal place in which to experience true and authentic flavours, rich in unmistakable taste with game specialties. There are many typical regional cured meats to taste: capocollo, Norcia salami, beef carpaccio.
The restaurant offers various second courses, absolutely worth trying are the straccetti with muffato, the skewers, the tagliata with pears and local pecorino, the beef fillet with Bronte pistachios and the unmissable truffle-based recipes, such as the beef fillet on pea cream, with Taleggio cheese and fresh truffle, the lamb stew with fresh truffle and many others. game specialties, much appreciated in Orvieto. The menu changes according to the seasonality of the products used in the preparation.
Many delicious preparations
Black truffles, on the other hand, can be found from October to February, bianchetto around February, and marzolino in March. Porcini mushrooms, the protagonists of so many delicious dishes, can be found in autumn, especially if the season is rainy and sunny. Il Giardino da Giovanni restaurant relies on the valuable assistance of an expert truffle hunter who works throughout Umbria.
Lovers of traditional flavors and those craving unusual and flavorful dishes can delight their palates with these celebrated meat and game main courses in Orvieto: pigeon stuffed with plums and hazelnuts, served with crispy polenta, and duck breast with shallot wine reduction. For meat, the Umbrian restaurant favors Chianina, or alternatively, Marche or Emilian breeds. Il Giardino da Giovanni awaits its guests in the heart of Orvieto, in a wonderful and evocative location.
