Al Fornello da Ricci is a family run Michelin starred restaurant: Angelo and Dora Ricci work alongside their daughters Rossella (the sommelier) and Antonella (the chef) and Antonella’s Mauritian husband Vinod Sookar – who is the sous chef.
Their cooking makes great use of the fantastic quality local ingredients – vegetables are sourced from their garden – combining traditional and modern takes on Puglian recipes. The restaurant’s long tables, copper lamps, and beams, creates a farmhouse-style restaurant that belies the seemingly simple, but sophisticated cooking. Vegetables feature strongly: fried beetroot with puree of beet and timbale of carrot, zucchini, cheese and barley; or stuffed aubergine, croquette of potato and cheese, and deep fried zucchini blossom are two examples.
Al Fornello da Ricci
Contrada Monte Vicoli 71
72013 Ceglie Messapica, Brindisi, Puglia, Italy
Telephone: +39 0831 377104
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