ristorazione — Matera · Basilicata
In Piazza del Sedile, in the rock-hewn heart of Matera, I Due Sassi Cafè takes its name from the Sassi that have made this city in Basilicata a World Heritage Site. A place that accompanies the day from breakfast through to night, within the living stone of the city.
The entrance opens onto Piazza del Sedile, one of the focal points of civic life in Matera. The name of the place is no decorative detail: the Sassi, the rock-hewn districts (rioni) inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are the very substance of this city, and I Due Sassi Cafè carries that recognition in its own name, as a declared act of belonging.
The dining room gathers the conviviality that Matera knows how to express: an accessible, unpretentious place, open to all, where the day unfolds unhurried from morning breakfast through to the small hours of the night. The kitchen offers Italian dishes with attention to vegetarian needs, in a formula that answers to the welcoming vocation of the square.
At the stoves, the pizzeria renders Italian tradition with a menu that embraces vegetarian palates too. The kitchen works from morning until three in the morning: a long rhythm, that of a place which does not separate breakfast from dinner, but holds them together within the same day, marked by the rhythm of the square.
In Piazza del Sedile, between stone and conviviality, I Due Sassi Cafè awaits. The page tells the full story of what this scene has just opened onto.
