La Buca RestaurantCesenatico

The Adriatic speaks unfiltered. We add nothing that isn’t needed: only what is true, intense, and authentic.
Each dish is direct, essential, free of embellishment. The rest is silence.

PURE ADRIATIC

Remove everything but the essential

Stella Michelin Le Soste

EXPERIENCES AND MOMENTS

Everything unfolds through subtraction: even pleasure

THE SEA IN ITS ESSENCE

Michelin Star

MINERAL DEPTH AND BRACKISH VIBRATIONS

For nearly forty years, this place has followed the rhythm of the Adriatic.
A dry, measured approach, where the raw ingredient sets the pace and every detail has its purpose.

We seek density, salinity, structure.
A delicate balance that speaks of shallow shores, shifting currents, and restless seabeds.

ARCHITECTURE

Low lights, raw iron, bare sheet metal. Muffled sounds, like below deck.

The space evokes the galley of a fishing boat: essential, compact, functional.

Those who enter leave the dock behind. The noise fades, the rhythm shifts. Inside, everything feels suspended.

The light doesn’t reflect: it absorbs. Matte, maritime, like fog.

MINERAL DEPTH, BRACKISH VIBRATIONS

The Bartolini family has always cared for this place.
They do so with discretion, never imposing on time, allowing space, the sea, and daily work to shape its identity.

Mirian Kukaj in the dining room: a composed welcome, quiet attentiveness, care that reassures.
Every gesture has its rhythm. Never ostentatious, always present: a presence that listens before it acts.

Mauro A. Donatiello in the cellar: a clear gaze, vertical sensitivity, a selection curated like a landscape to explore.
Wines don’t merely accompany, they guide. Every pairing reveals a perspective, a balance, a season.

Matteo Tonin in the kitchen: a precise hand, a transparent mind, a gaze always turned to the sea
Technique is not the goal but the means. Flavor leads every decision: coherence brings order.