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Locanda Orico
Via Orico 13 Cuisines: Italian, FrenchAbout
This is one of the best restaurants in the Ticino, serving a refined cuisine based on market-fresh ingredients. The inn lies in a stately town house at the foot of Castelgrande in the center of Bellinzona. The chef, Lorenzo Albrici, was once a student of Frédy Girardet, hailed as one of the greatest chefs of Europe. The fixed-price lunch menu (40F/$26/£14) is the town's great dining bargain. An array of warm and cold appetizers is there to tempt you, ranging from house-marinated salmon in a sweet-and-sour sauce to carpaccio of duck liver flavored with sea salt. Baked shrimp are also a starter, floating in an Andalusian gazpacho. Main courses, which are especially delightful, are filet of freshwater lake perch stuffed with green leafy vegetables and filet of roasted veal with rosemary-flavored butter. For dessert, there is nothing better than a symphony of fresh fruit au gratin, flavored with Grand Marnier. This place represents grand provincial dining at its best.
