Casa Buono - Trucco (IM)
Casa Buono is the gastronomic jewel of Antonio Buono, for 6 years sous-chef to Mauro Colagreco at Mirazur in Menton, and his wife Valentina. The restaurant is located 10 minutes by car from Ventimiglia, on the Colle di Tenda highway, strategically located near the highway junctions of Western Liguria and the French Riviera. The interior of the restaurant, which since our last report has benefited from the addition of a new dining room, has few seats and informal-chic tones. Crossing the threshold, you enter a small room with only three tables, which ends at the back with a designer bar (with original raised wine cellars) and the open kitchen. An old stone millstone towers over the second small room, warm and welcoming. To dine at Casa Buono is to pay a visit to a chef who in five years, directing the synchronized work of twenty chefs under his command, has been able to take the Mirazur restaurant in Menton to the roof of the world, achieving a third Michelin star and
