Iconic dish · Damplo Roma
Costolette Braisate alla Maniera Imperiale con Riduzione di Barolo
The dish Augustus would have ordered, if he'd had the number.
Piedmontese beef short rib, braised for ten hours in Barolo and served on celeriac purée with Sicilian gremolata. The cooking jus is reduced for three hours and strained seven times — a non-random number, Ciccio specifies — "the seven hills, the seven reductions, perfection." The staff no longer asks for explanations.
"Every time I prepare it, I cry a little. It's a form of quality control."
Booking
By request only, with at least one week of emotional advance notice.
Notice
Ciccio accepts no liability for existential crises or reassessment of one's relationship with food.
