produttori — Wassenaar · Zuid-Holland
In Wassenaar, in the residential heart of South Holland, a shop on Langstraat safeguards the grammar of Italian gastronomy: artisan focacce, carefully chosen cured meats and cheeses, and a counter that smells of yeast and of the South. A piece of Italy built with precision, far from the Peninsula.
On the marble counter lie the raw materials of a precise catalogue: buffelmozzarella and bresaola, coppa di Parma and smoked scamorza, burrata and salami Milano. Each ingredient arrives from the Peninsula with a recognisable story of origin. It is from this selection — chosen with method and non-negotiable in quality — that every focaccia in the shop is born.
Hands sink into the floured dough: Antica's focaccia is made starting from the dough itself, not from a bought base. The menu expresses this care in two registers — classic and special — with compositions named after Italian places: Garda, Calabria, Roma, Parma. Each name is a promise of provenance, honoured in the ingredients that make it up.
On the shelf, ready-made focacce line up alongside products from the selection: the shop also works as a takeaway and catering point, carrying Italian specialities beyond its own walls. In Wassenaar, where Antica has earned a rating of 5 out of 5 across more than one hundred and fifty reviews, its reputation is built one customer at a time, with the owners always present behind the counter.
The shopfront at Langstraat 7 is open Tuesday to Sunday. Inside, Italy can be found without a plane ticket and without compromise.
