Cantina del Ponte

House-Made Pasta and Barrel Wine

A welcoming cantina-restaurant where house-made pasta and slow-braised meats share the table with a fine selection of local Barbera and Grignolino poured straight from the barrel. The Cantina del Ponte is the kind of place where the bill surprises you — in a good way — and the atmosphere is entirely without pretension. There is no performance of hospitality here, just the straight transaction of good food and good wine served by people who know what they are doing and see no need to elaborate on it.

The pasta is made fresh each day: tagliatelle, tajarin, agnolotti depending on the day and the season. The braised meats follow the same logic — slow-cooked over time in the way that this territory has always cooked meat, with wine from the barrel as both ingredient and accompaniment. Walk-ins are welcome, which is itself a statement about how this kind of place operates. A reliable and honest Monferrato table with no reservations required.