ristorazione — Castel Ritaldi · Umbria
On the hills sloping down toward the Umbra Valley, just steps from the center of Castel Ritaldi, La Taverna di Sampey is a stopping point where territorial cooking, the wood-fired oven and the grill meet without ceremony, in a place that feels like home.
A few hundred meters from the center of Castel Ritaldi, in a spot reviewers describe as truly picturesque, La Taverna di Sampey opens its doors six days a week. The place is spacious and welcoming, designed for family dinners and evenings with friends: there's even a space set aside for children's parties, a sign of a hospitality that leaves no one out.
The large windows running along the dining room offer an unbroken view over the Umbrian countryside: the backdrop to dinner is the hills around Castel Ritaldi, which shift in light with the seasons. More than one guest has written of a corner of paradise, and the setting — immersed in the surrounding countryside, close to the village — bears this out without exaggeration.
From the wood-fired oven come pizzas that are extremely thin, crisp and generous in size: one of the traits most cited by regulars. Alongside the pizza, the braceria (grill) offers quality meat — Chianina beef burgers, beef tagliata, steak by the kilogram, scottadito lamb and wild boar stew — and prices remain, by deliberate choice, honest and accessible to everyone.
Umbrian truffle — in the strangozzi, in the tortellini with cream and truffle, in the tagliata — is the seal on a cuisine that tells the story of the territory with honesty and flavor.
