Luci sul lago In Orta san giulio

05/05/2026: Gorgeous. Friendly. Excellent food. Top-notch hospitality. I hope to return soon 🙏

18/04/2026: For this gastronomic investigation, Watson and I are in Briga Novarese, and the subject of our investigation is the Mottarone restaurant. After booking through Google, we arrive about 20 minutes early and, finding the restaurant open, we ask to be seated despite the time not yet being our reservation. We are granted a seat, and we take this courtesy as a plus for our investigation: not all restaurateurs are so generous! The staff, mostly female, is very young, but knowledgeable and courteous. We are provided with the menu and wine list: we decide on a cabbage and pikeperch roll, a surprising combination. We skip the first course and order a mixed fry, which adds tempura vegetables to the standard squid, shrimp, and calamari. We finish with two different desserts: Watson gets a tarte tatin, and I a sort of meringue with berries. We washed down our dinner with a bottle of Franciacorta Zero Spaccato and a bottle of mineral water, and finished it off with two complimentary coffees. We spent €63 each, with the bubbles alone costing us €36.