Menu Lorenzo de Medici at the Villa
Aperitifs: Tarts, vol-au-vents, carpaccio, fried tidbits, Tuscan bread salad and assorted canapés
Appetizers: (Choice of three)
- Grilled and sliced octopus on a bed of mashed potatoes
- Rabbit salad with fresh salad vegetables dressed with olive oil
- Broad bean and pecorino flan with melting cream-filled mozzarella
- Very thin slices of smoked goose breast with Chianti ristretto
- Red tuna tartare with crisp chopped vegetables
- Prawn salad with avocado and palm hearts
- Baby squid soup with small chunks of toasted bread
- Assorted seafood salad
- Very thin slices of smoked swordfish and smoked tuna
- Very thin slices of salmon marinated with orange
- Buffalo mozzarella pockets on a bed of diced tomato concassé
- Vegetable flan with Taleggio fondue and zucchini blossoms (vegetarian)
- Cream of Castelluccio di Norcia lentils with legume and crisp shaved Grana cheese (vegetarian)
- Prawn cocktail in a lime sauce, served with a medley of green apples and celery (fish-vegetarian)
- Rabbit salad with wild fennel, served with lamb’s lettuce and marinated baby vegetables
- Breast of duck in a crust of aromatic herbs, served with pioppini mushrooms
- Fig bundles with prosciutto and a melon purée (possible only for September)
First Courses: (choice of two)
- Trofie with smoked duck ham, cherry tomatoes and pecorino di fossa
- Potato gnocchi with Dublin Bay prawns and courgette flowers
- Porcini mushroom and potato ravioli tossed with courgette flowers and saffron
- Spaghetti with clams and asparagus
- Cappellacci filled with walnuts and pecorino with fontina and poppy seed fondue
- Creamy risotto with quail, tomato and onion sauce
- Pappardelle with juniper fragranced hare, red wine, tomato and onion sauce
- Tagliolini with pigeon, tomato and wine sauce
- Cavatelli with strips of sun-dried cherry tomatoes and shavings of salted ricotta cheese
- Orecchiette with taleggio, pine nuts and porcini mushrooms
- Linguine with lobster
- Fish raviolini with prawns, pumpkin and broccoli florets (fish-vegetarian)
- Risotto with Taleggio cheese and sage (vegetarian)
- Orecchiette pasta with porcini mushrooms, zucchini blossoms and saffron (vegetarian)
Main courses: (choice of two)
- Beef fillet with Norcia truffle
- Beef fillet with balsamic vinegar and honey
- Bite-sized pieces of rabbit with black olives and rosemary
- Sea bass cooked in a foil parcel with cherry tomatoes and potatoes
- Fillet of sea bream with capers, olives and parsley
- Grilled and sliced beef steak with truffle shavings
- Grilled breast of guinea fowl with Sagrantino sauce
- Slices of red tuna in a poppy seed crust
- Pigeon in a bay leaf and black pepper crust
- Braised veal served on yellow polenta
- Rack of lamb stuffed with truffle and pecorino
- Veal fillet cooked with green peppercorns and golden apples
- Fried red king prawns
- Fillet of gilthead bream with courgette pearls sautéed in butter and cherry tomatoes au gratin (fish-vegetarian)
- Vegetable tempura with goat cheese (vegetarian)
- Warm mushroom salad with spinach flan with Taleggio cheese (vegetarian)
Side dishes: (choice of two)
- Oven-roasted potatoes
- Seasonal salad
- Grilled vegetables
- French fried potatoes
- Spinach tossed with olive oil and garlic
- Boiled potatoes tossed with olive oil and parsley
- Broccoli florets sautéd with salt-cured bacon
- Radicchio and sweetcorn salad
Desserts
Selection of desserts including:
- Dessert of Berry and yogurt
- Chocolate mousse
- Coffee bavarian
- Lemon meringue
- Creamy mascarpone dessert
- The traditional Italian wedding cake is "Mille foglie" which is a cake made from layers of light filo pastry, and it has a layer of chocolate cream and a layer of vanilla cream and seasonal fruit.
Coffee

