Christmas with Longino & Cardenal

For more than thirty years, Longino has been collaborating with some of the best and most talented chefs in Italy, in choosing the best ingredients for their tasting menus. This year, we have decided to open our doors and share this unique experience with our customers, offering you two tasting menus, to impress your guests with a truly gourmet Christmas lunch. Are you ready to travel with us?

Christmas with Longino & Cardenal

Would you like to offer your guests a gourmet menu that revolutionizes the traditional Christmas lunch? Then you have come to the right place! Longino & Cardenal and its Rare & Precious Foods carefully selected from all over the world, will guide you in a gourmet edition of this special Christmas lunch, sure to satisfy the palates of true connoisseurs.

With an added gourmet touch, you are sure to impress your guests! Why choose Longino & Cardenal? The exclusive quality of our products! A diverse selection of unique and refined foods will grace your tables and here, in this special place, you will find yourselves becoming expert Food Scouts, discovering new flavors and new combinations with which to contaminate and enrich those beloved Christmas traditions. Is your mouth watering yet? Perfect – let’s venture out and explore our rich tasting itinerary. We will tell you the tale of two menus: one that speaks of the land and one of the sea. Our intent is to revisit great classics of the Italian Christmas tradition, as well as to offer you some interesting contemporary alternatives.

Meat of fish? What to choose for your Christmas lunch

Christmas lunch is one of the most anticipated moments of the Holidays. In Italy, as well in many other countries around the world, the traditional December 25th lunch is all about family, conviviality, good food and loved ones. While it’s certainly not set in stone, in Italy tradition has it that the Christmas Day menu consists primarily of meat, as opposed to the Christmas Eve dinner which, instead, typically offers fish dishes. In fact, each Italian region has its own diverse habits and traditions. While the menus may vary, there is one common rule for Christmas lunch: it must be elegant and the dishes served must speak of quality. With this in mind, we wanted to give you the flexibility to choose between impressing your guests with either meat or fish inspired menus. Follow us in the coming weeks as we will guide you to discover our impeccable Christmas menus.

What will our Christmas lunch menus include?

In the four weeks leading up to the magic of Christmas, we will reveal two dishes every week – one featuring meat and one featuring fish – which will compose our gourmet tasting menus.

Appetizers

Our appetizers will consist of traditional dishes. We will show you how, using high quality raw materials, just a few steps are enough to create truly impressive dishes! Our meat appetizer will feature foie gras, while we will begin our seafood tasting menu with oysters reinterpreted in a gourmet key.

Entrées

A great menu, of course, requires great interpreters! Our entrées will be “signature” dishes and, in true Italian style, will feature pasta and rice! Our chef Giorgio Guglielmetti will propose a reinterpretation of an iconic dish created by Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi, while the other dish will be interpreted by a starred chef. Be sure not to miss our next articles to discover more

Main courses

Our main courses will consist of a recipe featuring venison and one featuring the delectable Norway lobster. Are you curious to find out what we have in store for you?