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Restaurants in Isernia
Where to eat in Isernia: the signora of Conca Casale, Capracotta pezzata, white truffle, and Agnone caciocavallo.
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The catalogue currently covers Pistoia and Prato, and grows one province at a time. This town may also be listed under a different name: try searching for it.
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From the Bitebooker blog
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Eating in Isernia
Isernia is mountains and drove roads: transhumance passed through here for centuries, and the cooking is that of shepherds.
The dishes
- Pezzata from Capracotta — mutton boiled with few aromatics in a cauldron in the open. It has its summer festival and it is the dish of the transhumance;
- Cavatelli and crioli (the Molise guitar-string spaghetti) with sauce or truffle;
- Polenta with greens and cicerchia soup;
- Grilled lamb, in the villages of the Alto Molise.
Cured meats and cheeses
The Signora di Conca Casale is a very rare cured meat, a Slow Food presidium made by a handful of families; the caciocavallo of Agnone belongs to this province, and pecorino di Capracotta comes from the highest pastures.
The truffle
The white truffle of San Pietro Avellana has its fair in August: one of the most prized whites in central Italy.
In the glass
Tintilia del Molise DOC, which gives its finest wines on the high ground.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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.
Other towns in the province of Isernia
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.