Ristorante Gelateria all'Angelo da Lalo — Restaurant in Volpago del Montello

Wow! A trattoria worth of Michelin Star (or two). An antipasto comprised of five small, in season vegetable dishes, blew my mind. Everything was incredibly creative and EXPLODING with flavour. I loved the twist on traditional Veneto ‘in soar’ pumpkin and caponata in basket of Parmesan cheese. All this followed by simple buy incredibly succulent gnocchi in porcini mushroom sauce were the best I had in Italy so far (and we’ve been living here for 3 years, so it counts for something). Service was impeccable and genuinely friendly. If you have to make a 45min detour to get here...

Where’s the button for six stars? We looked at the antipasti and thought they were a list to choose from. No, it was like a little a tasting of many delicious things. Then we had pasta. My tortelli where insane. Part with tomato sauce, part a cheese sauce, all of it deep flavours playing in your mouth. When the chef came to check on us (yes, the service is amazing), I had to shake his hand. ‘This is all stuff we make ourselves. Sometimes we get it wrong, sai?’ ‘Well, not today you didn’t!’ And we add another restaurant to brag about in the area. Off to...

Met with friends for dinner on a Friday evening. We were a large group. Considering the number of people (and how popular the restaurant was that night) everything went well and was very good. Everyone at the table had compliments about the dinner. Most of us had gelato after. Highly recommended for dinner...