Ethics and History

VESPASIA FOR SUSTAINABILITY

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To add flavor to our dishes, reduce the waste of food, electricity and the use of plastic, we will purchase products for which freshness and fragrance make the difference. We will do it at the last useful moment and only in the necessary quantities. For this we need to make reservations and menu choices at least 24 hours before arrival at the restaurant.

To make the Vespasia project sustainable also for all the people who interact with it: from those who visit us, to the small producers, to the professionals who work here and their families, we need a small investment of time by the our Guests in advance. We are committed to using it to the fullest, with the aim of offering everyone a more informed experience.

Our suppliers must ensure, in addition to a high quality of their products and a fair price, also the sustainability of the production cycle that generates them. Legumes, cereals and vegetables come from our Vallaccone farm in Norcia and from our farming friends in the Sibillini Mountains National Park. The meats are all strictly local, of high quality and come from farms that focus on animal welfare. We go to visit them personally several times during the year.

Our recipes are born from the selection of the best products of our territory and from a study of traditional local dishes. We then want to enrich this journey into taste by adding, when useful, the fruits of our life adventures, our sensitivities, in order to make the experience with our dishes satisfying for our guests.

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Our Journey
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Our family has been catering in Norcia since 1850. In over 170 years of history we have seen the world change: Guests, Collaborators, Suppliers, ourselves and our families, as well as the local community that surrounds us. With some we shared moments of joy and pain, reconfirming our trust, respect and projects year after year.

The 2016 earthquake and then the Covid pandemic changed our lives and that of many people around us. These events shacked our certainties but have not bent our determination and our desire to rise again, with a renewed awareness and aspiration to become better people.

We had time to reflect and then choose our most sustainable path, the one that we hope will lead us and the people who share it to make another small contribution to the world around us.

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Where the Vespasia Project is born and regenerated
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The Vespasia project was born from Vincenzo and Federico Bianconi, the sixth generation of this tenacious family of Italian restaurateurs.

The two brothers had been always in love with the world of catering and hospitality and trained from an early age in the family business. Then they studied Tourism Economics and subsequently broadened their horizons through work and study experiences made in Italy and abroad.

Their first “immersion” in the world of haute cuisine took place in the early nineties, at the court of the great master of Italian cuisine, Gualtiero Marchesi, at the time of Via Bonvesin della Riva in Milan. This period, which lasted a few months, left an indelible mark on their vision of catering. That spark later became fire thanks to the friendships born in Relais & Châteaux, with the Cinque family from Positano, Iaccarino di Sant’Agata sui due Golfi, with the found brothers of Colle Valdelsa, Francesco Cerea, Emanuele Scarello and with the “grande dame ” of Italian cuisine, Annie Féolde.

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