Full-Service Italian Cooking in the Comfort of Your Villa
Let us introduce you to Tuscan food. We’ll come to your villa and create an Italian meal to remember with the best food in Lucca. We pride ourselves on attention-to-detail, seasonal ingredients, and a Tuscan vibe like no other. Whether it be a brunch for the familia or a party with friends, this is Italian Cucina at its best.
We love Lucca and our with winemakers, cheesemakers, and artisans across the town. We source the meat, the cheese, and everything from our neighbor. We believe that this is the wealth of this area. We eat by the season. In summer, fresh tomatoes and watermelon, in spring, fennel and asparagus, and in winter, warm root vegetables, We serve you by the season to taste the land around you.
Service to your Villa includes:
- A phone consultation, so we can get to know you and your needs.
- Your seasonal menu, tailor-made for your needs, your group and your dreams.
- Wine tasting from all over the region (we love to share our love for wine!)
- Allergies and food intolerance consultation (we take allergies seriously and are super-creative, we will find a solution for anything)
- Ongoing consultation availability (we are here for you every step of the way)
- Service based on the utensils that are at your villa. Service includes shopping for all ingredients, cooking on-site, serving, and clean up. (we pride ourselves on making it easy for you).
We have many creative catering offerings to choose from. Here are just a few of the options:
4-Course Italian Dinner from Starters to Dessert |
All-you -can-eat pizza party |
BBQ like an Italian |
Antipasti Buffet and Prosecco Party |
Farm to table |
4-Course Italian Dinner from Starters to Dessert
Come for a complete sensory experience; smell the hot risotto, sip wine as you go, and taste the finest ingredients from the area.
The dinner is paced like a true Italian feast from appetizer to dessert, for the first courses, pasta and risotto, then meat, side dishes, and salads. Wines accompany every course so you can taste them all.
We arrive late afternoon to your kitchen, and we cook on the spot.
All-you -can-eat pizza party
For a one-of-a-kind feast, let us throw the pizza party of your dreams. We make our dough by hand and let it rise for 24 hours. We are crazy for toppings from fresh zucchini to roasted melanzane (eggplants), stracchino, a local cow milk cheese to artisan sausages made by friends from our area. We love white potato pizza, fresh mozzarella di bufala, and so much more. For dessert, a sweet pizza, full of surprises. Let’s raise a glass and sing “ that’s amore”.
Available in villas that have a brick oven.
BBQ like an Italian
For us, a BBQ is an experience, a road-trip through the meat and ingredients from our entire region. We will serve a vast selection of farm-to-table meats such as Tuscan ribs known as Rosticciana, Bisteca Florentine (Florentine beef steak), sausages in beer marinade, chicken in lemon and rosemary, and a whole line of appetizers and roasted veggies such as our famous “bruschetta”. Let us guide you through the region with a barbecue that redefines farm-to-table.
Antipasti Buffet and Prosecco Party
Perfect for summer afternoons, when you want to experience the Lucca breeze and sip your way through the afternoon tasting an incredible Italian appetizer spread while enjoying time with your friends and family. Relax to Italian music as we set up a self-service buffet with drink pairings to match. Soak in the Italian sun with the garden as your backdrop and local views like a work of art. A Magical evening guaranteed!
Living in one of the richest and most productive regions of Tuscany
Join us on a gastronomic journey through Tuscany, where farm-to-table is a way of life. Our relationships are at the core of the food connection, which means that every cheese, every vegetable, and every ingredient has a story behind it that will inspire your palate. We have mastered the art of bringing farm-to-table; we can share our stories and infuse our ingredients into your local fare.
Let’s taste pecorino cheese, marvel at the many salumi types, and feast on fresh pasta. Most of all, let us bring you into the world of Tuscany, its flavors, its beauty, and its authenticity.