La storia
A day atLume.
The osteria is small on purpose: one brick vault, twelve tables and a kitchen that starts long before the first candle is lit. This is how a day goes.
There is no secret recipe. Just a routine, kept every day.
Lume means light. The name comes from the candles: the first thing you see from the street, and the last thing the team blows out at night.
Everything on the menu is made in the same small kitchen, on the same day it is served. Here it is, hour by hour.
Il giorno Morning and afternoon
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The market
The day starts at the green market. Whatever looks best decides tonight's menu: tomatoes in summer, pumpkin in autumn, artichokes in spring.
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Tiramisù, then the ragù
The tiramisù is layered first so it can rest all day. Then the beef ragù goes on the back burner for eight slow hours.
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Focaccia
The dough is dimpled by hand and topped with rosemary and sea salt, timed so it is still warm when the doors open.
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The pasta is rolled
Tagliatelle, tonnarelli and ravioli are rolled and cut on a floured board. Enough for tonight, and no more.
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Family meal
The team sits down together, tastes every sauce and opens the bottles that will be poured by the glass tonight.
La sera Evening
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The candles are lit
One in the window, one on every table. The door opens and the first guests take the seats by the arch.
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Twelve tables
The vault fills up. Plates come out to share, and the room gets warm and loud in the best way.
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Dinner, slowly
Nobody rushes a table here. Burrata, a second pasta, maybe a glass of something orange.
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The last candle
The last tiramisù, the last pour. The board is floured again, ready for four o'clock tomorrow.
House rules
Smallon purpose.
Twelve tables
Small enough that the kitchen sees every plate go out, and every guest gets a candle.
Made today
Pasta at four, tiramisù in the morning, focaccia just before the doors open. Nothing from yesterday.
The market decides
The menu changes with what is good this week, so there is always something new to try.
Reservations
Your table,by candlelight.
- Tue to Thu · 18:00 to 23:00
- Fri and Sat · 18:00 to 00:00
- Sun · 13:00 to 22:00