ristorazione — Castel di Sangro · Abruzzo
Castel di Sangro rises in the Abruzzo Apennines at eight hundred metres above sea level, where the Sangro Valley narrows its breath between the woods. At number 99 Via XX Settembre, Le Tre Chiavi holds thirty covers and a kitchen that never stops searching for tradition.
Once through the door, one finds a place where family-run management is not a detail on a page but a concrete presence: the owner welcomes, oversees, advises. Thirty seats are the right measure for a service that stays attentive to every table, with nothing lost in the passage from kitchen to dining room.
The dining room, with its thirty covers, has the measure of those who have chosen not to grow beyond the point where one can still know who sits at every table. The space is designed to be inclusive — booster seats for children, access for those with mobility needs — without giving up the warmth of an Abruzzo interior.
From the stove come tagliatelle with porcini, guanciale (cured pork cheek) and truffle — the most mentioned first course in reviews — and arrosticini (skewered lamb) true to the tradition of transhumance. For those with different dietary needs, the entire line of first courses is available gluten-free: Abruzzo cooking, here, leaves no one behind.
On this page, the hours, contacts and full menu of Le Tre Chiavi: an authentic mountain kitchen, where every dish bears the mark of an Abruzzo tradition still very much alive.
