Ristorante Ai Monti del Gennargentu — Restaurant in Orgòsolo/Orgosolo

We stayed at the hotel-restaurant for one night in August,2013. The room was simple and clean. The bathroom had a jacuzzi and enough hot water for a bath. If anything more were needed in the room, the proprietor would surely do so. It is a place to escape from it all being quiet and serene. The high point was the dinner. Note that in London a meal at a restaurant can cost up to £200 and still cannot match the standard at Ai Monti. Firstly, most of the ingredients are sourced locally and even if preserved, are of a very high quality. ( You cannot sew a silk purse from a sow's ear, that kind if thing.) The pigs roam the mountainside, rummaging the earth and eating roots, ants, ant's eggs and insects with their snout. They do have a stile for shelter especially in winter and might be supplemented with feed. When the pork is served on the table, you can see that it has relatively little fat and has a good flavour and texture from the way they are reared. Secondly, chefs cannot be 100% taught as flair and talent come from within. And in this hotel, the food is up there with the top for its category with talent aplenty. Usually in country hotels, presentation is a minor concern but this was not the case, as the antipasti were colourfully arranged on the plate like a painting. We paid 30 euros each including wine for the meal and it was a tad or two ahead in quality of meals in the big towns in Sardinia. Like any hotel, it is work in progress as maintenance costs are inexorable. In London, Virgin Media had to connect my wi-fi to a wire which was brought in from outside. People must understand that this Inn is in the mountains and until which time there is satellite, wireless connection, it it not easily viable. There was a dog barking at night - but that is a common occurrence in the countryside. There was however, no cock crowing at 4am in the morning. The dog may have encountered people walking in the early hours or pigs passing by or was having a conversation with some other party.||There are walks in the mountains where the beauty is rugged and rocky. We will stay at the hotel again and bring friends there. When food is prepared without love and pride, the spiritual value of the food is nil. I believe that at this hotel, the food is prepared with love and care, and given the freshness and locally sourced material, the food would heal and make you well combined with the...

This seems to be reviewed under both Albergo and Ristorante so I've put it in both||||After eating a great meal at Dai Monti Del Gennargentu in Nuoro we decided to try their restaurant in the mountains near Orgosolo. As they also have a few simple rooms to rent we stayed for 2 nights. We were travelling using public transport and people from the restaurant/B & B drove 5 km to pick us up in Orgosolo. ||The restaurant is on an isolated plateau in the Gennargentu range and was open for lunch and evening meals when we were there. It is surrounded by pasture land with sheep, cows and pigs roaming freely. The rooms are simple, no TV but who needs one when you have such beautiful surroundings, with a bath/jacuzzi.||The first day we had half board, which was an extra €30 per person for a 3 course meal plus dessert and a bottle of wine. I am vegetarian and we hadn’t given them any warning about this but they produced some lovely food. My anti-pasti included zucchini and aubergine in a beautifully light, crisp and tasty batter. Then came raviolone, which is one very large ravioli that has been baked, in a tomato sauce. I’ve never come across this before and thoroughly enjoyed it. The portions were all generous. The coffee was lovely and smoky. My carnivorous companion was extremely happy with her food, to put it mildly, but you’ll have to read her review for further details.||That evening, following the exertions of the day, I ate a beautiful plate of pasta with a tomato sauce, I couldn’t manage anything more after the earlier meal. The pasta is called lardos and is prepared 2 days in the year, and we were there on the Day of the Dead which is one of those days. They were round discs of pasta layered on a plate with the tomato sauce. Absolutely delicious.||Breakfast both days was coffee, juice, toast, jams etc with some home made cakes. We will definitely be going back to spend some more time on the top of that mountain to eat some really good food and listen to...

We were directed to this wonderful restaurant outside Orgosolo by a local gentleman in the small bar where we had stopped for a quick drink. After a short chat he insisted on buying our drinks and then recommended this restaurant, which was out in the middle of nowhere. On our way we had to stop for a herd of sheep, goats and even several small pigs to cross the road. The restaurant is also a small inn with 3 rooms...we ate outside under large trees at wooden tables, had the shepherds meal, fixed price, which was all that was offered. It started with a wooden cutting board filled with salami, and other local meats, and cheese, olives, plus a jug of wine, and lots of water, followed by homemade ravioli, and then roast pork, which they were cooking on a fire outside. That was followed by coffee as well. The staff was so friendly, spoke reasonable english and were obviously proud of the place. I think the bill was around 80 euros for the 4 of us, a real deal compared to others we had on this trip. The setting was so much what one would hope for in the part...