Restaurant Menu 2026

LOCANDA LAGETTO FONTEVIVA MENU 2026
Local, fresh and 0 kilometer products!
Directly from the pond to the table.
• Lombard meat slaughtered by the Martinelli farm in Arcisate.
• Products coming from farms in our Province.
• Fresh vegetables and fruit picked from the greenhouses and plantations of our trusted farmers.
• Beer from the Poretti della Valganna Brewery.
• House wines selected from vineyards in Lombardy, Veneto and nearby Piedmont.
• Bread and pastries of our own production.
• All desserts are homemade. Our proposals change every week. Let yourself be inspired… ask the waiter.
• Schiacciata, bread and pizzas made by us, directly from our wood-fired oven.

“Stop and breathe.
Take time for yourself, sharing the joy of being together… the beauty and goodness of rediscovering the values ​​of good eating and good drinking, for the pleasure of good food.”

Particular attention is dedicated to vegetarians and celiacs.
For those intolerant to lactose or other foods, please inform the waiters.
Upon request, the Chef will offer you freshly cooked specialties from time to time.
Ask to the waiter.

Possible presence of allergens (marked in brackets), indicate next to the name of the dish, in sequence of ingredients.

To start…

• Fried fish / Acquadelle (1, 4)
• Fonteviva Salad with baby spinach, Taggiasca olives, feta cheese, Pachino tomatoes, and toasted seeds (7, 8).
• Cherry Tomato Tarte Tatin with stracciatella cheese (1, 7).
• Marinated Lake Fish (Carpione Style) with seasonal vegetables (1, 4, 9, 12).
• Trout Tartare with bagel and Aperol gel (1, 4, 12
• Traditional Veal with Tuna Sauce (3, 4, 9)
• Fonteviva Platter consisting of: a generous selection of cured meats, homemade pickled vegetables (giardiniera), honey-glazed pearl onions, aged goat cheeses, and marinated lake fish (carpione style) (1, 4, 7, 9, 12) (minimum for two people)
• Cheese Selection for Sharing (for two people) to satisfy the appetite and delight the palate, served with green tomato preserve, walnuts, and local Varese honey (7, 8).
   

They can’t miss…

*fresh artisanal pasta

• Tajarin Pasta with yellow datterino tomato cream, eggplant chips, and burrata foam* (1, 3, 7).
• Fusilloni Pasta with guinea fowl ragù*, baby spinach, and toasted pine nuts (1, 7, 8, 9).
   
• Lake-Style Carbonara Spaghettoni with freshwater fish and egg yolk sauce (1, 3, 4).
• Potato Gnocchi with porcini mushrooms, Taggiasca olives, and green apple gel* (1, 3).
   
• Lake Whitefish Tortelloni with alpine butter, hazelnuts, and zucchini cream (1, 3, 4, 7, 8).
• Fonteviva Risottino with perch*, lemon-scented and caper powder (1, 4, 7) (when not available fresh, imported) Minimum for two people (freshly cooked – 20-minute waiting time)

** Product blast chilled and/or frozen

Our Polente

with stone-ground flours directly in the valley from the historic Rigamonti mill

• Stone-Ground Polenta with natural Gorgonzola cheese (7)
• Stone-Ground Polenta with sautéed porcini mushrooms* (blast-chilled when out of season)
• Beef Cheek braised in Poretti Red Beer, 6 hops, with rustic polenta (1, 9).

Continuing with…

• Roasted Eggplant with chickpea hummus and red onion confit.
• Grilled Trout Fillet with roasted potatoes and Mediterranean sauce (4)
• Mixed Fried Lake Fish Platter* with vegetables and potato chips (1, 4)
• Crispy Pork Belly served with vegetable caponata (9
• Venison Tagliata with roasted potatoes and caramelized onion
• French-Style Steak Tartare (180 g) with anchovies, capers, shallot, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, egg yolk, mustard, parsley, and gherkins (1, 3, 4, 10).
• Grilled Scottona Fiorentina min. 1 kg for every 2 people

  *** all second courses are already accompanied by a side dish

N.B.: to keep the product always fresh, reclamation is carried out, when necessary, using a blast chilling process.

Asparagus paper

Do you want to know our proposals dedicated to asparagus and white asparagus from Cantello? Click here to see the special card

Side Dishes

• Green or mixed salad
• Baked potatoes
• French Fries* (1)
• Tempura Zucchini Flowers (1)
• Grilled Seasonal Vegetables.
• Sautéed Porcini Mushrooms*

  ** Frozen or chilled product

The dessert

Our waiters will offer you the desserts of the moment from time to time, strictly made by us where our classics cannot be missing:

• Refreshing Lemon Sorbet (1, 3, 5, 7, 8)
• Traditional Tiramisù (1, 3, 7)
• Affogato al Caffè – vanilla ice cream topped with hot espresso (3, 7, 8)
• Golosa Sundae with fiordilatte ice cream and mixed berries (3, 5, 7, 8)
• Tropical Coconut Dessert with a chocolate shell, coconut cream, dark chocolate powder, and passion fruit gel (7, 8).
• Crème Caramel Bar (3, 7)
• Watermelon and Jasmine Creamy Dessert with chocolate crumble and pistachio pieces (8)
• Dessert of the Day (subject to availability)

The Maitre recommends… (subject to availability)

• Traditional Piedmontese Zabaglione paired with a glass of Moscato wine, prepared tableside, minimum for two people (3, 12).
   

SWEET WINES BY THE GLASS

• Moscato d’Asti – Piedmont – Cantina Carlin de Paolo (12)
• Zibibbo of Pantelleria – Sicily – Cantina 1866 (12)
• Porto Don Pablo – Portugal (10 Years Old)
• Gonzales Byass (Jerez) Nectar – Spain – Pedro Ximénes
• PX Pedro Ximénez D.O.C.G. – Spain, Montilla-Moriles.
• Passito Ben Ryè D.O.C. – Sicily – Donna Fugata Winery (12)

Thought for the little ones..

• Partial menu
  (first or second course, jelly and drink)
• Complete menu
  (first course, second course, jelly and drink)

CHILDREN’S MENU

• Pasta with Tomato Sauce or Pesto Pasta or Lasagna (subject to availability), or Pizza (1, 3, 7, 8, 9) served with ice cream for children and a soft drink.
   
• Breaded Cutlet with French fries and sauce (1, 3)
• 30 minutes of playground offered for children eating the children’s menu, weather permitting. Distancing provisions in line with ministerial regulations are applied.

ALLERGEN LIST

1. Cereals containing gluten and derived products
2. Shellfish and shellfish products
3. Eggs and egg products
4. Fish and fish products
5. Peanuts and peanut products
6. Soy and soy products
7. Milk and milk-based products (including lactose)
8. Nuts and their products
9. Celery and celery-based products
10. Mustard and mustard products
11. Sesame seeds and sesame seed products
12. Sulfur dioxide and sulphites in higher concentrations
at 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/liter in terms of total SO2
13. Lupines and lupine products
14. Shellfish and shellfish products

N.B.: to keep the product always fresh, reclamation is carried out, when necessary, thanks to a blast chilling process

OTHER HIGHLIGHTED PROPOSALS