APimento Catering

03/19/2024

Saturday, March 23rd - seats still available, and we’d love to put you in one!

We’ll host a very special visit from Cascina Delle Rose winemaker Riccardo Rizzolio joining us from Italy’s Piedmont, courtesy of our good friends at Williams Corner Wine.
 
We’ll get to hear the beautiful history of his family’s estate overlooking the Alps, producing incredibly memorable wines of terroir - Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera and Arneis.
 
Briefly told, the story of Cascina della Rose begins shortly after WWII, when Giovanna’s grandparents fell in love with a beautiful house in the Alps. It was the backdrop for many cherished family memories, and in 1974 Giovanna decided to move there permanently, and in 1992 she took over management of the estate. At that point, she was running everything herself, from winemaking to the bed-and-breakfast. Today, her son Davide manages the vineyards, with collaboration from the rest of the family. Farming is certified organic, with as few copper and sulfur treatments as possible. The soils here are of marine origin, with silt, clay, sand, and various colors of calcareous marl. The vines have access to plentiful spring water deep underground. Grapes are harvested by hand, gently crushed, and fermented in steel tanks, followed by aging in concrete or in large neutral Slavonian and Swiss oak casks.
 
With our usual format of a multi-course paired menu, we’ll taste our way through most of their current production, from their “Mun Cru” Arneis, through Dolcetto and Barbera, to their complex and beautifully expressive Barbarescos from the Rio Sordo and Tre Stelle parcels.
 
Dinner, as ever, will feature local and seasonal ingredients from some of our favorite producer/grower friends. 🥰
 
This promises to be a truly special evening, and we hope you’ll join us. Bring a friend!
 
$130 per person

Doors open 6:00 PM for Aperitif
(please no early birds)
Dinner seating 6:45 PM

Call or email with your reservation:
434-971-7720; [email protected]
We’ll confirm with a return call or email.

03/06/2024

We’re back at it! 2024 wine events have resumed!
 
Saturday, March 23rd marks a very special visit from Cascina Delle Rose winemaker Riccardo Rizzolio joining us from Italy’s Piedmont, courtesy of our good friends at Williams Corner Wine.
 
We’ll get to hear the beautiful history of his family’s estate overlooking the Alps, producing incredibly memorable wines of terroir - Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera and Arneis.
 
Briefly told, the story of Cascina della Rose begins shortly after WWII, when Giovanna’s grandparents fell in love with a beautiful house in the Alps. It was the backdrop for many cherished family memories, and in 1974 Giovanna decided to move there permanently, and in 1992 she took over management of the estate. At that point, she was running everything herself, from winemaking to the bed-and-breakfast. Today, her son Davide manages the vineyards, with collaboration from the rest of the family. Farming is certified organic, with as few copper and sulfur treatments as possible. The soils here are of marine origin, with silt, clay, sand, and various colors of calcareous marl. The vines have access to plentiful spring water deep underground. Grapes are harvested by hand, gently crushed, and fermented in steel tanks, followed by aging in concrete or in large neutral Slavonian and Swiss oak casks.
 
With our usual format of multi-course paired menu, we’ll taste our way through most of their current production, from their “Mun Cru” Arneis, through Dolcetto and Barbera, to their complex and beautifully expressive Barbarescos from the Rio Sordo and Tre Stelle parcels.
 
Dinner, as ever, will feature local and seasonal ingredients, chosen to complement the wines and speak to their story.
 
This promises to be a truly special evening, and we hope you’ll join us!
Seating limited to optimize and personalize your experience.
 
$130 per person

Doors open 6:00 PM for Aperitif
(please no early birds)
Dinner seating 6:45 PM

Call or email with your reservation:
434-971-7720; [email protected]
We’ll confirm with a return call or email.
(Beautiful olive woodcut image courtesy of Josef Beery, because there will be olives by golly!)

09/13/2023

We’re proud to be part of this event every year, and to share the abundance of local growers.
Come join us!

Last, but far from least, we are highlighting the woman who has made Food From Our Farms possible every year - Gay Beery of APimento Catering. Gay and the Apimento team are an incredible ally to Local Food Hub, and we are so lucky to have them!

If this series of posts has piqued your appetite at all, be sure to get tickets for Food From Our Farms on September 14. We can't wait to enjoy the abundance of the local food system with all of you. Tickets at https://www.localfoodhub.org/ffof/.

03/20/2023

Salad days - baby romaine, burrata, peas, crisp speck, all the herbs and tomato vinaigrette. Followed by Prosecco risotto and snapper, which moved to fast to the table. ✨

03/14/2023

Mid-week fave-y Puszta Libre! Weinland fun, thanks to our good friends at 🤜🤛
Off now to baste that chicken 😜

03/06/2023

So much beauty is found in the folds.

12/08/2022

Fun night partnering with the beautiful people at under the sharp supervision of Fu 🦴

11/12/2022

The end. (of summer garden, that is)
Amazing it lasted this long ❤️

09/20/2022

Rosy orbs of rosé-poached peach and plum with reduced syrup, whipped crème fraiche, chocolate crumble and a little bit o sunshine 🌻

08/30/2022

Yesterdays visit to was pure pleasure. Beautiful produce and local ingredients handled with finesse to create a celebration of summer on the plate. Cooled down with Îles flottantes - impossibly delicious. Paired with wine from just down the road, followed by a stroll in their potager. Gratitude. ☀️

08/27/2022

Subject : the Fig obsession.
It’s real,
it’s driving,
it must be answered.
Solution : Provence! Figs are absolutely everywhere - ditches, gardens, growing out of ancient bridge walls, far from any soil, sweet, fleshy miracles for the taking.
Today our host kindly brought us a plateful of wild figs she’d collected at home, much to our delight. We announced their likely destination - a clafoutis. Which begged her lament that her childhood was filled with clafoutis and there would be no more.
…pretty sure she never tasted this clafoutis - sadly
no liqueur, which I love to macerate the fruit in, but we had ground almonds and some velvety orange blossom honey and HELLO 😶‍🌫️ there you go. We’ll see you for breakfast, too 🧡

08/27/2022

Vacation progress report… 🌞

08/24/2022

These cavaillon melons are pure wonders. Unlike the varieties at home, these have a much tougher, thicker rind, obviously intended to protect the (outrageously perfumed) juicy flesh within. Heaven.

02/25/2022

If my Sicilian Mema was here right now, I know she would reach up and kiss me. I know she would tell me how much this tastes like the old country ❤️🤍💚

02/18/2022

Shrimp, avocado and radish on Miche 😍

01/26/2022

01/23/2022

Readying a favorite winter squash for it’s a la carte takeoff!
Roasted kabocha squash, white bean “hummus,” roasted grapes and hazelnut dukkah sooooo good!
Want to join our Bit e Pezzi weekly à la carte mailing list? Email us, call or DM and you’ll receive menus each week for pick up (or limited delivery) Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The fun is that things change weekly, to follow the seasons and our endless whims (your win, we promise).
We’re adding lots each week, too, to our retail wine and pantry offerings. Lots to celebrate! Can’t wait to see (feed) you 😘

11/17/2021

Autumn : Soup
From the Sunday Supper with , warming soup of roasted kabocha squash, heirloom apple, ginger and rosemary with creme fraiche and apple saba. So good 😊