Menu

From homegrown cured meats and cheeses handcrafted by our trusted suppliers, to fresh homemade pasta, to meats selected and matured according to the Dry-Aged process in the special maturation cabinet, to lake fish, not to mention our delicious desserts: you’re sure to find your new favorite dish!

Starters

CHF
Grotto starter to share

Roe deer terrine – head salami – Tomino cheese in oil
Baked onion with tuna sauce – fried zucchini flower stuffed with cheese fondue
Venison salami – crostino with porcini mushrooms

39.-
Sciatt and Slinzega with Cicorino salad 21.- / 25.-
Baked onion with tuna sauce 14.- / 18.-
Crostino with creamy porcini mushrooms 19.-
Marinated venison carpaccio

with chestnuts, porcini mushrooms in oil and Alpine cheese shavings

26.- / 34.-

Salads

CHF
Lamb’s lettuce Mimosa salad with croutons 13.- / 16.-
Cicorino salad 11.- / 14.-
Cicorino and tomato salad 11.- / 14.-
Grotto mixed salad 13.- / 16.-

First Dishes

CHF
Valtellina-style Pizzoccheri 26.-
Ravioli stuffed with ossobuco

with saffron cream

24.-
Pappardelle with wild boar ragù 26.-
Risotto with Luganighetta and porcini mushrooms (min. 2 persons)

with saffron and Ticino Merlot

24.- p.p.
Pumpkin gnocchi with truffle 24.-
Tagliolini with sautéed porcini mushrooms 26.-

Main courses

CHF
Fried Alborelle

with French fries

28.-
Perch fillets with butter and sage 38.-
Braised beef shoulder

with polenta

36.-
Braised local rooster

with polenta

36.-
Venetian-style veal liver 34.-
Veal escalopes

with creamy porcini mushrooms

44.-

Rassegna del Cuore

CHF
Our triple-cooked roast suckling pig

with rosemary potatoes and Cicorino salad with cherry tomatoes

38.-
Ticino-style Cazzöeula

pork ribs – pork tail – pig’s trotter – local Verzini sausages – Codegotto – Musetto – braised Savoy cabbage and traditional polenta

34.-
Game duo

sliced venison fillet with herbs and wild boar salmì
with butter-browned spätzli, Brussels sprouts, glazed chestnuts and Calvados apple with redcurrant jam

41.-
While you wait, we suggest a small starter

roe deer terrine, wild boar salami, fresh fig, baked onion with tuna sauce and crostino with porcini mushrooms

18.-

From the Grid

(subject to availability)

CHF
Swiss beef – Costata

rib steak, approx. 800–1000 g
served with roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables

12.50 / 100 g
Swiss beef – Fiorentina

Florentine steak, approx. 800–1000 g
served with roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables

13.50 / 100 g
Grilled beef Picanha (min. 2 persons)

approx. 350 g p.p.

44.- p.p.
Sliced beef entrecôte

approx. 200 g
with Maldon sea salt and balsamic cream

42.-
Grilled Ticino pork Luganighetta

approx. 250 g

26.-

Specialties

CHF
Grilled beef picanha

minimum 2 persons – approx. 350 gr. per person

44.-
Sliced beef entrecôte approx. 200 gr.

with Maldon salt and balsamic cream

42.-
Local grilled pork luganighetta sausage approx. 250 gr. 26.-

Polenta

CHF
Polenta with milk 12.-
Polenta with fried eggs “in Cereghin” 18.-
Polenta with creamy Gorgonzola 18.-
Polenta Concia

with cheese, garlic, butter and sage

28.-
Polenta with sautéed porcini mushrooms 34.-

Desserts & Ice Creams

CHF
Chestnut cake

with chestnut ice cream

12.-
Tarte Tatin

with vanilla ice cream

12.-
Glazed chestnuts

with grappa cream

12.-
Panna Cotta

with strawberries

12.-
Crème Caramel 10.-
Tiramisù

with mascarpone cream

12.-
Fresh strawberries 10.-
Semi-frozen meringue cake

with chocolate sauce

11.-
Semi-frozen Sicilian Cassata 11.-
Marrons glacés ice cream

with rum

12.- / 15.-
Walnut ice cream

with Nocino

10.- / 13.-
CHF
Grape sorbet

with Grappa

10.- / 13.-
Lemon sorbet

with Vodka

10.- / 13.-
Apple sorbet

with Calvados

10.- / 13.-
Whipped cream supplement 3.-
Ice cream supplement 3.-
Ice cream flavours

Vanilla – Walnut – Marrons Glacés – Lemon – Apple – Grape

Cheeses

CHF
Büscion from the Muggio Valley 8.50
Alpine cheese 12.- / 16.-
Full-fat Formagella cheese 9.- / 12.-
Creamy Gorgonzola 9.- / 12.-
Mixed cheese selection 16.- / 22.-

Iva 8,1%  inclusa.