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Restaurants in Aosta
Where to eat in Aosta: Fontina DOP fondue, carbonade, seupa à la valpelleunèntse, and Arnad lard.
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Eating in Aosta
Aosta is the highest of Italy's regional capitals, and its cooking is high-altitude: butter, cheese, preserved meat, rye bread.
The Fontina
Fontina DOP is the valley's name: eaten in slices, in fonduta (milk, egg yolks and cheese, no starch), and inside almost every hot dish.
The dishes
- Seupa à la valpelleunèntse — dark bread, cabbage, broth and fontina, baked until it gratinates;
- Carbonade — salted beef stewed in red wine and onions, with polenta;
- Polenta concia, with butter and fontina;
- Valdostana cutlets, with ham and fontina inside.
The cured meats
Lardo di Arnad DOP, matured in wooden *doils* with mountain herbs, and Motsetta (dried meat). The bread is rye, once baked a single time a year in the village ovens.
In the glass
Valle d'Aosta DOC is the denomination: Petite Arvine, Fumin, Torrette and Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle, from some of the highest vineyards in Europe.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
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