ristorazione — Paestum · Campania
On the coastal plain of Cilento, where the Doric temples of Paestum have marked the horizon for three thousand years, a restaurant carries in its name the memory of the Greek banquet: the Symposium, the art of sitting together at table.
The name is already a statement: Simposium evokes the Greek banquet, the collective ritual of the table with roots running two thousand years deep in this coastal plain. The entrance opens a short distance from the UNESCO archaeological site of Paestum, where the Doric temples of Magna Graecia still mark the horizon with their exact geometry.
The dining room gathers the sense of a place that has chosen to belong to its own time without forgetting its own territory. The cooking brought to table is that of Cilento and the Salerno area: a gastronomic tradition rooted in the same land that once nourished Greek settlers and, later, generations of farmers and fishermen along this coast.
From the kitchen come the flavours of Cilento, one of Campania's most distinctive gastronomic areas: raw materials from a territory that looks out to the Tyrrhenian Sea on one side and to the mountains of the National Park on the other. Every dish carries the measure of a cuisine that knows its own ingredients and has no need to look far for them.
A stop worth the journey, in the heart of one of the most history-laden landscapes of the Mediterranean.
