Sextantio Cucina

A dining room with history

The restaurant of the Sextantio albergo diffuso occupies a protected palace in Santo Stefano di Sessanio, restored with the same criteria as the rooms. The room has two large arches on columns and a central stone fireplace brought from the Baronia di Carapelle; above there was a workshop where wool was dyed. Many tables and chairs predate the 20th century and the ceramic tableware is made by a craft workshop. You enter through via Sotto gli Archi, a covered passage that crosses the village beneath the houses.

What you eat

The menu comes from a study commissioned from the Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo: interviews with the elders of Santo Stefano, Castelvecchio Calvisio, Calascio, Castel del Monte, Barisciano and Carapelle, which gathered more than seventy recipes not found in regional cookbooks. It is mountain, make-the-most-of-everything cooking: potatoes, pulses, wild herbs, bread, preserves. Part of the vegetables come from the house's garden. Don't come looking for arrosticini: for that, the Ristoro Mucciante.

Booking

Book by phone, on +39 0862 899116, by email or from its website. If you are sleeping at Sextantio, ask for the table when booking the room: in the village there are few alternatives at night.