Il Cantinone e Sport Hotel Alpina

A family restaurant run with pride and enthusiasm, Il Cantinone delights guests with its array of local gastronomic delicacies sourced from the surrounding mountains and nearby lake, including ingredients such as buckwheat, trout, whitefish and eel, along with polenta, mushrooms and game. The menu also occasionally features more exotic influences acquired by chef Stefano Masanti during his time spent travelling the world before he returned to his beloved mountains.

• A Michelin-starred dining room that frames its pantry as mountain to lake, spanning buckwheat, freshwater fish, mushrooms, polenta, and game.
• A style that allows occasional travel-inspired digressions, without losing its Alpine centre of gravity.
• A sustainability story that includes a local water-recycling network for the whole property, and the restaurant's Michelin Green Star recognition.

Key local ingredients repeatedly highlighted for Il Cantinone include buckwheat, trout, whitefish, eel, polenta, mushrooms, and game, representing the mountain to lake pantry.

A mountain restaurant in Madesimo whose tasting paths are built around the valley and nearby lakes, then pushed outward with occasional travel-inspired detours. Expect contemporary Alpine cooking that moves between buckwheat and polenta, freshwater fish, mushrooms and game, alongside more cosmopolitan techniques and season-led combinations.