The Lake Garda offers a variety of dishes and recipes ranging from traditional cuisine from the Alps region and Po Valley to specialities from Trentino, Lombardy and Veneto. Both meat and fresh water fish are featured. Even the most finicky eaters and gourmands will find flavors and tastes suitable for the most elegant table.
This market/expo features local products, from wine, grappa and cheese to cured meats, sweets, fruit, milk, eggs, and more... for the home and family in Lazise. Besides sampling the traditional foods of Lake Garda and the Verona area, the "Piatti & Sapori" [Dishes and Flavors] event offers a vast exhibit of local products used in the traditional cuisine of lake Garda. Presented in cooperation with the Bardolino Hospitality Institute and various Consortia for local certified products, it also offers demonstrations on how these local products are grown and produced.
Garda Classico - the Brescia Wines of Lake Garda Route - This route takes you through the production areas of Lugana, Garda classico and San Martino della Battaglia. This long circular route of approximately 80 kilometers travels along the Lombard banks of Lake Garda. The itinerary starts out from Lonato and heads to Calvagese della Riviera, Polpenazze, Soiano and Puegnago del Garda, in the verdant setting of the Valtenesi hills. The road leads to Gardone Riviera and then descends to Salò, San Felice del Benaco and Manerba.
Tremosine invites you to admire the beautiful scenery and discover its delicious cuisine on a food & wine tour composed of nine special events with theme menus presented by our restaurants. The expo will be held in September and October. On the seven dates, several participating restaurants will present theme menus made from local products.
Tenno is a lovely resort town on lake Garda. Its enchanting views are even more beautiful under the luminous, clear sky that is typical of Garda. Tenno and its many hamlets (Gavazzo, Cologna, Ville del Monte, Sant'Antonio, Canale, Calvola, and Pranzo) have preserved the original characteristics of their homes, shops, streets, and squares. The lovely mild climate is the result of the warm gentle winds from Lake Garda blending with the cool alpine breezes from Lake Tenno. The area ot Tenno is also full of historical and cultural monuments.
This ancient Trebbiano grape variety is grown in many parts of Italy. Wine made exclusively from these grapes is usually rather mild, but if the grapes are grown in special terrains, the wine has a very distinctive flavor. This is the case of LUGANA, south of Lake Garda, and Pozzolengo is right at the heart of this area.
There is a little ritual that takes place before dinnertime, when friends meet in the bars and clubs of Lake Garda to socialize and relax. The protagonist of this convivial moment is the Spritz, the typical aperitif usually served on this occasion. More and more tourists have become familiar with this typical Italian custom and love to sip this aperitif that is not only refreshing drink, but is also the perfect accompaniment to lively conversation or quiet contemplation of the sunset on lake Garda.
Tremosine is a municipality composed of 18 hamlets that sits on the Brescian banks of Lake Garda in the splendid Alto Garda Bresciano park. Immersed in nature, and stretching from the beach of Campione to the peaks of Tremalzo, it offers all the different types of scenery typical of Lake Garda. This plateau towering above the lake affords breathtaking vistas and is ideal for people who want a vacation in the great outdoors. Gourmets shouldn?t miss the chance to sample all the delicious typical local products.
A food and wine expedition amongst wonderful scenery. A walk of about five miles on tracks wandering through woods, meadows, pastures and perfumed pine woods to visit the picturesque villages of Tremosine. The itinerary features a set menu and covers seven villages in Tremosine. In each village there will be a stand where a food speciality is cooked using local ingredients. Each dish will be accompanied by a Garda wine offered by an important cellar on the western side of Lake Garda. The little village squares will be decorated and at each stopover there will be music and entertainment.
Inspired by their love of the earth and its bounty, people over the centuries learned to transform wholesome natural products into excellent dishes. Today, that interest continues, and Lake Garda's farm holiday establishments are welcoming more and more people eager to taste traditional cuisine from bygone days. Garda con Gusto, the third Lake Fish Food Festival in Toscolano Maderno, aims to become an event for culinary tourism that combines hospitality with tradition and local culture.
The fish and wines of lake Garda: Combinations... And something out of the ordinary. Staying on Lake Garda without enjoying its distinctive fl avours means missing an opportunity to discover everything the area has to offer, and making any length of stay that little bit more special. The pleasure of visiting new places is combined with that of sitting down at a table to enjoy fresh summer dishes, where fish from the lake reins supreme. Restaurateurs are becoming increasingly aware that they are surrounded (for the time being at least) by an abundance of varieties of fish, some unique, such as the unequalled salmon carp, and traditional recipes to reinvent and repropose.
The trout is one of the most common fish varieties found in the Upper Garda area of Brescia. The lake along the rugged Brescian coast, with its sinuous recesses and small cliffs, is an ideal place for trout. The currents that flow in the area create a unique aquatic microclimate, whose temperature and current patterns suit the habitat of the trout. Besides the lake garda trout with a subtler, richer flavor, one also finds river trout, which thrives in the many streams that run down the mountains in the Brescia area.
Fishing on Lake Garda was an important economic resource in the past, and the fisherman's work was difficult and demanding. Besides having to know all about the habits of different fish species, he also had to perform various tasks. He had to be an excellent carpenter to repair the boat, a fine weaver to prepare fishing nets and, above all, he had to know everything about the local environment and weather conditions.
His majesty the fish from the lake is served - There was a time when fish from the lake was regarded almost with suspicion: a sort of illegitimate child spawned in lesser waters and something to fall back on in the absence of saltwater specimens. Things have changed quite a bit, of course. In fact, it is increasingly difficult, despite the claims of disparagers and the misinformed, to come across places on Lake Garda without at least one dish on the menu featuring fish from the lake. And this, somewhat paradoxically, is mainly true of five-star kitchens, where creative gastronomic delights using freshwater fish are multiplying at an extraordinary rate. Take, for instance, the menus of the temples of haute cuisine such as Villa Fiordaliso in Gardone Riviera or the delightful Il Porto in Moniga, which serves nothing but fish from the lake. It is anything but a poor man's dish.