ristorazione — Castelluccio · Umbria
On the plateau of the Monti Sibillini, over fourteen hundred metres above sea level, the Piana di Castelluccio opens up like a natural stage best known to the world for its wildflower blooms. Here, since 1986, Taverna Castelluccio has kept alive the most authentic flavours of this high mountain land.
Since 1986 the family has welcomed guests with the same care: Signor Peppe and the owners greet in person all who cross the threshold, in a restaurant that has become the gastronomic heart of the Piana. Forty years of family management that come through in the welcome even before the food.
The windows of the dining room frame the Piana di Castelluccio and the silhouette of Monte Vettore: a view that accompanies every meal like a second course. Here sit hikers just down from the Sibillini and travellers who have sought out this corner of Umbria with the same determination one reserves for a rare destination.
On the stoves of the Taverna, the recipes of the plateau take shape: grilled castrato and lamb, game ragùs, traditional soups. The ingredients come from the plateau itself — IGP-certified lentils grown without herbicides or chemical fertilisers, sheep's ricotta produced by farms just steps away — because here, eating local is not a marketing choice but simply geography.
The lentil crostata from Castelluccio closes the meal like a statement of the territory. The page has all the details for booking a table.
