Aurora · Two Stars
Chef Elena Bertuzzi's tasting menu, rooted in alpine herbs and lake fish. Eleven courses, four hours, one table.
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Two Michelin stars, one omakase counter, eleven other reasons to come downstairs.
Dining
From the Michelin-starred omakase counter to the lakeside trattoria where the staff eat on Sunday nights, dining at Verenza is a journey across cultures, courses, and altitudes. Reservations recommended.
Chef Elena Bertuzzi's tasting menu, rooted in alpine herbs and lake fish. Eleven courses, four hours, one table.
→ ReserveEight seats. Seventeen courses. Fish flown in twice weekly from Toyosu market. Chef Hiroaki Mori in residence.
→ ReserveThe estate trattoria. Hand-rolled pasta, lake-fish carpaccio, the family vineyard's amarone. Lunch and dinner.
→ ReserveAfternoon tea in the glass pavilion: thirty teas, forty pastries, a string trio on Saturdays. 3pm–5pm.
→ ReserveThe 1923 bar, restored. Two hundred amari, a saturday-only Negroni cart, and the longest copper counter in the region.
→ ReserveTastings beneath the estate, in caverns carved in 1903. Three flights, ten cheeses, a sommelier all to yourself.
→ Reserve“Aurora may be the most quietly confident kitchen in northern Italy. Bertuzzi cooks like she has nothing to prove — because she doesn’t.” — The World’s 50 Best, 2025