Reale

It took patience and self-sacrifice for him, the novice, the former economics student who entered the kitchen against his will, to be accepted, recognized, and then welcomed among the greatest. It took a lot of self-confidence on the part of Niko Romito for his sister, who followed him out of loyalty and embarked on this journey out of love, to be able to implement her vision of hospitality. There were lean years in the family trattoria in this small village perched in the Abruzzo region. Then came the first awards. Then there was the crazy gamble of starting from scratch and moving into this former monastery, equally perched, still in the rustic and rural Abruzzo region, and imagining Ristorante Reale and Casadonna. A highly gastronomic restaurant, a few minimalist rooms with views of the vineyards: the perfect setting for these workaholics, these lovers of detail, even the smallest and most invisible, these visionaries for whom cuisine, cerebral without ever getting lost in vain convolutions, is a cuisine of essentials, where these transmitters of memories make transmission a foundation. Few places so accurately transform perception, but also the ambition of a man.