Travels with Maria-Gardona Riviera

Here you will journey with me as I eat and drink my way through Italy’s lake country in Gardone Riviera, Lombardy, Italy.

Sometimes you just need to stare at the water all day, have a cold drink and remember what stillness is all about…
Lobster and Casserecie pasta at Trattoria Lacanda Agli Angeli
Vongole made with local clams at Lacanda Agli Angeli
I don’t eat meat, (I’m a pescetarian) but my husband loves to indulge his inner Barbarian whenever he can. These braised short ribs melted off the bone and oozed onto his delighted tongue, I think that’s what he said. Maybe I just made it up.
Yummy beetroot gnocchi with wondrous clouds of puffy cheese and the best yellow cherry tomatoes I’ve had since I left the south. Trattoria Marietta
Polpo with wild greens, tomatoes and olives. That’s a yellow cheese sauce from some insanely good cheese I’d never hear of. Spuma di something or other.
Off to Venice….!