Restaurant
The pure whiteness of the halls, which makes the antique furniture stand out, the Murano glass chandeliers, and the hand-painted majolicas typical of the Sorrentine Peninsula: all of these form part of an original décor which mixes modern and traditional, and welcomes guests into the Don Alfonso 1890 restaurant in Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi, between Sorrento and Positano.
Alfonso and Ernesto Iaccarino’s kingdom, both father and son being chefs, is on the other side of a hand-painted glass wall, which separates the kitchen from the area where mother and son Livia and Mario Iaccarino, welcome their guests.
Other than the haute cuisine of the restaurant, guests of the Don Alfonso 1890 will find a library filled with books (all discussing cookery, obviously); a show room with the typical produce of the Le Peracciole country houses, which you may sample and buy; and a beautiful garden which the hotel suites overlook, where you may have an aperitif surrounded by the scent of lemon trees.
(...) Alfonso and Livia Iaccarino grow herbs, lemons and peaches, artichokes and eggplants and, of course prize tomatoes, plus the olives for their own tangy, fruity oil, in a sun-kissed garden facing the isle of Capri near their restaurant on the Sorrento peninsula. In their lovely pastel dining room, they serve fresh, understated, unmistakably Italian food in great profusion - ravioli with caciotta, wild marjoram, barely heated chopped tomatoes and basil, or rolls of baby sirloin filled with raisins, pine-nuts, parsley and garlic, atop a ragout of wild endive. The tufa cellar, first excavated by the Etruscans, is stocked with wines from all around the world. (...)