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LA ROTONDA RESTAURANT
REFINEMENT, ELEGANCE AND PASSION
Directly overlooking the Adriatic, La Rotonda is a place where time seems to slow down. Here, the sea is more than just a view: it's a living presence, a deep voice that accompanies every culinary gesture and every moment of hospitality.
Since 1962, we've upheld a tradition that unites Porto Recanati with its maritime heritage, transforming the simplicity of the catch into a refined sensory experience. It's a story that begins when a simple beach kiosk becomes a landing place, a place where looking up always means seeing the sea, hearing its voice, following its horizon.
Antonio and Antonia were the first custodians of this story: he, a fisherman by vocation, with the sea in his blood and a knack for hospitality; she, the custodian of a Marche recipe book that still smells of the first sunrises and the hands that passed it down. From their union, La Rotonda's identity was born: genuine, essential hospitality, made of genuine smiles and dishes that tell the story of the region. Then time continued to flow, like the tides.
The baton passed to his son Enzo, and then to Sara, who with grace and vision led Rotonda towards a new aesthetic and emotional sensibility, without ever breaking the thread that ties it to its roots.
STYLE
cooking is vision
of the season, of being together, of the soul, of the time, of the sea, of the earth, of the sky
Every dish is born from the way we look at what surrounds us. The sea changes color, the land changes flavor, the sky creates new lights.
It's a cuisine that listens before creating. A cuisine that doesn't force, doesn't imitate, but interprets: with honesty, with delicacy, with profound respect.
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THE CHIEF AND THE BRIGADE
GERMAN AND LISTENING to the raw material
Since 2007, German Scalmazzi has led our team with sensitivity and discipline, combining technical precision with an instinct for interpreting nature's promptings.
His is a cuisine that proceeds like a chisel: it removes the superfluous, smooths what is rough, enhances what is true.
Trained in Uliassi's kitchens and through experiences in Australia, France, and England, German has brought an open, bright, and contemporary vision to our restaurant. Yet his touch remains anchored in history: in the flavors he learned from Antonia, in the aromas of the herbs he forages outside the restaurant, in the catch of the day from the waters he sees every morning.
German doesn't create dishes: he creates stories. And each story is a fragment of the Adriatic.
MASTER SOMMELIER
Sara, curator of the room and wine
The dining room, the cellar, and the hospitality all bear Sara's signature: a careful eye, an empathetic spirit, and a rare ability to make every guest feel right at home.
A sommelier of international standing, he gained experience in London, Burgundy, and the great wine capitals before returning here to build an elegant, diverse, and intimate selection.
For her, wine is a way of life, an endless journey through cultures, histories, and landscapes. Her wine list is a map: of Verdicchio, of native grape varieties, of the great wines from beyond the Alps. Each label is chosen to evoke emotion, to tell a story, to accompany food and the sea.
His welcome is made of small, perfect gestures, of measured words, of a delicacy that cannot be taught.
This is what allows the Rotonda to be, every day, a house open to the sea.
1962-TODAY
STORIES OF THE ADRIATIC
Look up and see the sea, contained by rocks, reaching out to the sky.
Remembering the fishermen's song in the early morning, the return to land, the raw material telling its story.
And then transform it, with love, into a new dish.
This is La Rotonda: a former beach kiosk that has become a benchmark for Porto Recanati's new seafood cuisine. A place that preserves its family soul while embracing innovation. A home that grows, evolves, and looks ahead with its feet in the sand and its eye chasing the waves.
