White Truffle Season Comes to Il Lago at Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues Geneva

 Chef Saverio Sbaragli presents his intoxicating creations.

Geneva, Switzerland – 2012-09-15 — /travelprnews.com/ — Il Lago restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues opens the autumn season with its just released White Truffle Menu.

The white truffle is one of the world’s most expensive and delicious ingredients and grows to perfection only in the Piedmont region in northern Italy, especially in the countryside near and around the city of Alba. They appear only once a year between the months of October to mid December. These truffles are highly esteemed, hard to find and cannot be cultivated, which explains their exorbitant price.

Called “white diamonds” white truffles resemble lumpy, dusty sort of potatoes. Only when they are cut open, the marbled tan interior with creamy ivory veins reveals their intoxicating scent. As the flavour of white truffle lies in its aroma, it is not usually cooked but shaved paper-thin over freshly cooked pasta, a delicate risotto, scrambled eggs or a salad.

Executive Chef Saverio Sbaragli, who is convinced that what clients are looking for in a dish is the true taste of the product, combines the exceptional luxury good to present this year’s seasonal white truffle menu, savouring his gastronomic offer with these outstanding white diamonds.

Starting with a warm vegetable salad with shaved white truffle over a delicious veal tartar with white truffle or freshly homemade tagliolini pasta up to his famous aquarello risotto to the signature dish of sea bass, every taste will find a possibility to experience white truffle season at Il Lago.

To savour this gastronomic experience at it most, Chef Sommelier Fabio Masi, awarded this year as Best Sommelier of Switzerland, and his team will have the pleasure to suggest with each dish the most suitable wine.

Il Lago is opened daily for lunch and dinner. The White Truffle Menu will be available from mid October until late December as addition of the Il Lago à la carte menu.

Hotel Press Contact

Claudia Ellmer
Director of Sales
33, Quai des Bergues
1201 Geneva, Switzerland
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T. +41 (0) 22 908 70 26

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