Kresios in Castelvenere - Sannio

Yes, we know, Campania is a very beautiful region of Italy and it is very famous thanks to Capri, Amalfi Coast, Pompei, Naples.

But, listen, there is an hidden part of Campania, the inner areas far from the coast, whose charme is unique and whose plus, sad but true, is also the absence of crowd.

These two areas are named Irpinia and Sannio.

Well, we are talking about a very cute hill town: Castelvenere.

And, about Castelvenere, we discover a lovely and charming place to dine out: Kresios.

In the center of Castelvenere, Giuseppe Iannotti, so young, so clever, so far to imagine himself already a famous chef, enables his customers to enjoy unforgettable dinner.

His way to concept the cooking is to start with the right step in the recruiting of the ingredients: only high quality and very often only DOP ingredients.

Not necessary only local food when the best of this kind of food could come from different areas.

In fact we begun with Culatello di Zibello coming from Polesine Parmense, made by Massimo Spigaroli (Antica Corte Pallavicina).

Delicious first course was Paccheri with very fresh ricotta and a very particular and local breed of apple named annurca, upon a smooth bed made with pumpkin sauce; paccheri come from the pasta maker Vicedomini; some other pasta is from Setaro, one of the best pasta of Italy.

Then we went on with a delicious crispy rabbit with roasted potatoes.

Also cheeses are the fall-out of a strong and passionate competence and the match with composte was really excellent.

Wide and very well done the wine list with some of the best labels of Sannio.

Our choice was to begin with an elegant pink wine from aglianico grapes and go on with the same grapes in its born color: the strong red aglianico processed a bit as Amarone.

Giuseppe is also a very clever olive oil maker and really we tasted three great monocultivar olive oil, made by three local varieties: Spinosa, Ortolana and Raccioppella.

In my opinion, at least two of these can be considered among the best olive oil in Italy !

Really, I do believe it.

Kresios: an excellent restaurant in this cute and not yet well known area of Campania felix.