Food: creative Italian
Address: Via Cima Tosa 80 38086 Madonna di Campiglio, Italy
Phone number: +39 046 544 10 13
Website: www.ilgallocedrone.it
Guide Michelin: 1 star
What I paid: 150 € (per person for tasting menu, including aperitif, wine-pairing and water)
Visited: January 27, 2015

On a recent ski trip, some friends and I were travelling around in Trentino (in northern Italy) thanks to a reported snowfall there. Trentino is, along with Südtirol, one of the two provinces that make up the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, which is designated an autonomous region under the constitution.

With some rare exceptions, ski resorts around the world are seldom granted with good restaurants. However, Chef Vinicio Tenni serves refined Italian “mountain food” from the nearby region in the classical ski resort Madonna di Campiglio in Trentino/Dolomites and his restaurant Il Gallo Cedrone (capercaillie, a large turkey like Eurasian grouse of mature pine forests) do also have one star in Guide Michelin.

We went for a testing menu a 90 € (drinks/wines not included):

• Welcome hors d’oeuvre:
  

  Bread

  

  Snails

  

  More amusements

  

  Refresher

• “Castarota” carrots and chestnuts cream soup blown truffle and crackers “Aged” risotto, Castelmagno cheese and Norcia truffle:

“Castarota”

• Truffle risotto:

Truffle risotto

• Deer, pistachios and licorice:

Deer, pistachios and licorice

• Pre-dessert:

Pre-dessert

• Hazelnuts on edge of the forest: lichen and snow:

Lichen and snow

• Petit fours:

Petit fours

Summary: a good meal in a very nice setting!