Il Cantuccio - PERGOLA

Oste and food quality first! super recommended!

Very good and abundant food in a family climate. I am very satisfied.

Very atypical place where people are cheerful and genuine. food to review

This quirky family restaurant, very popular with local families and retired men with time on their hands, provided the best two meals of our two-week stay in Le Marche. There’s nothing fancy about it. The reason for coming here is for the good, honest, plentiful cooking. Both times we ate here, we arrived early for lunch and were told to come back at 1.00. The first time, the outside tables were booked by card playing locals and we sat inside with the owners’ children, who were watching Power Rangers and being served the same delicious food as us. The second time, we were able to reserve a table outside, shared with two locals who were listening to football on their mobile phones. No view or atmosphere to speak of, but it was a real slice of small town Italian life and we loved it. We had the pasta course on both occasions and it was unforgettably delicious. The first time was pasta with sausage and tomato sauce – my favourite – and the second was with sausage, mushrooms, peas, and cream. The portion size was huge and we couldn’t manage a second course the first time. The next time, we came prepared with more of an appetite and enjoyed delicious grilled pork. There is a lot of bluster on the sign outside about vegetarians not being catered for, but there was always at least one delicious sounding vegetarian pasta option on offer. On both visits, we had crostata for dessert. This is usually a pretty standard afterthought, but both times, we thought the taste was delicious – one a fruit jam and, even better, the other chocolate. We had coffee after our meal but weren’t treated to the alcoholic “corrections” that all the locals were being given. I guess you have to earn this honour. The cost of all this food was unbelievably good value, probably £25 and £30 Euros for two people each time we ate there, and this included wine. The service was brusque, but with humour. I’m sure if we’d been Italian, we would have fit right in, and this place shows you just how desirable a goal that would be.

Essential. almost monastic. good food tractor nice. Good price.