Food,
L’Argine a Vencò
Playing with herbs, foraged ingredients, auto produced vegetables and the best of local ingredients the chef Antonia Klugmann showcases a great sensibility on the creation of dishes. Delicate, incisive and introverted dishes, showing a cuisine that brings elegance, power and personality.
Vencò a city in the Far East of Italy in the Collio region close to the border with Slovenia. A territory that has a deep history from food traditions to past historical events. Known in the world for his orange wine, like Gravner this land is a special place for the influences coming from the surrounding regions and cultures. Here is where “L’Argine a Vencò” has born from the mind and the will of chef Antonia Klugmann. A cuisine where the love for the territory that host her meet the iodine notes of sea of Trieste, the city from where she came from, and the traditional Italian flavors. Bringing a clean, pure and minimalistic style where the actor is the ingredient manipulated with sensibility and gentleness. The produce and instinct drives the creative process and techniques became the just the vehicle to realize the dishes. Playing with herbs, foraged ingredients, auto produced vegetables and the best of local ingredients she showcase a great sensibility on the creation of dishes; delicate and incisive, introverted dishes, showing a cuisine that brings elegance, power and personality.
“L’argine, something that contains, that blocks and separates here becomes permeable. Permeated from the territory, the season and the roots of chef Antonia Klugmann. L’Argine a Vencò is the space of the unique identity and personality of the chef’s Klugmann”
Argine meaning border, riverbank…something that keeps, contains and that put limits…but here Antonia is able to make this “Argine” permeable and use the limit as an opportunity to realize something personal and unique. A symphony played between regional flavors, seasons and chef’s memories brought to you from a warm, honest and impeccable service. Sit down, relax, choose the menu and let free yourself to be driven in Klugmann’s universe made of sensibility, delicacy and personality.. from the see to the mountain leave the Argine world’s permeated into you.
While to live the full experience, get the chance to sleep in one of they guest room and wake up with the rhythm of nature and enjoy the italian vibes of breakfast saw from the eyes of the chef’s, different bread, jams, butter, freshly pressed juices, fresh seasonal fruits, yogurt, cakes and great pure products to start the day filled with a cuddle.
Territory: life in movement
- Squid, cardoncello mushroom.
- Mussels , chard, helichrysum, wild fennel.
- Soaso, spinach, fir.
- “Panzanella” in spring in the north-est.
- Cannelloni filled with ricotta, chicory, glazed with nettles.
- Persimmon, salad from vegetables garden, silene, hazelnut, rosehip berries.
- Spaghettini at white asparagus, raw green peas, broad bean leaves, plum flowers oil.
- Boiled pork belly, rosemary, sweet and sour red radicchio, licorice.
- Strawberry sorbet, forest granite.
- Pear, oat milk.