(Michelin Guide Restaurants)

KRÈSIOS - (Giuseppe Iannotti)
CREATIVE - ELEGANT Alluding to one of the names of Bacchus or Dionysus, Krèsios, the restaurant of Giuseppe Iannotti. A cozy country house that reveals inside a pleasant mix of ancient and modern: stone walls, rustic environment and the cellar dug in the tuff, whose treasures of alcoholic content are close to 2000 labels. From the open kitchens where you can supervise the work of the chef and his talented brigade come out creative and personalized dishes, often research, never banal. Iannotti's cuisine bases its philosophy on research and imagination, with improvisation shots, research of the best raw material coming from all over the world. And if a break must be, Krèsios also has three cozy rooms. - Menu 150 € - via San Giovanni 59 - tel 0824 94 0723
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays at noon, Sunday evening.

LA LOCANDA DEL BORGO
CREATIVE - COUNTRY HOUSE It is in the province of Benevento that the young chef Luciano Villani proposes courses structured on simplicity, organic products from the Sannio region and an uncompromising philosophy. But let's take a step back. We are inside the Hotel Acquapetra Resort&Spa, where a family of architects bought an old ruin with the intention of creating a project of a thousand and one nights: the result is this sort of luxurious village, where the spaces are customized with antiques and accessories of the latest generation. To complete all this, the gourmet restaurant offers a cuisine that - according to the inspectors - is always recognizable, tasty, of the territory, although slightly contaminated.
Menu 90/120 € - Hotel Acquapetra Resort e Spa, locality Monte Pugliano n 1, (S.S. Telesio 372 Exit Cerretto) - tel 0824 975007 - Closed Monday, Tuesday-Saturday at noon, Sunday evening