Alone on a spit of land facing a small harbor, it's the kind of sophisticated restaurant you expect to find on St. Barts, with grilled wild boar and lobster-stuffed tilapia on the menu and a Foxy's microbrew on tap.
Two cases occurred in the early 2000s in Japan through consumption of grilled wild boar (4 ) or sashimi of Sika deer (5 ); the third, reported recently in Spain, was transmitted through ingestion of pig meat (6 ).
Castelfalfi has its own restaurant, Il Rosmarino, which serves local dishes (including grilled wild-boar chops) and wood-fired pizzas.
On their menu you won't find the category-busting innovations of big-city Thai restaurants, no lemon grass-stuffed game hens or grilled garlic-rubbed boar collar.
The seafood-averse at our table raved over a grilled Texas wild boar sausage enmeshed in a welter of escarole, mushrooms, onions and peppers, cooked down almost to caramelization in a red-wine reduction.
Sitting under olive trees and overlooking the sea, you can choose from grilled fish, wild boar and goat's meat, and a selection of tasty local cheeses, fruits and patés, all washed down with local prosek, a sweet dessert wine.
The current winter menu includes mixed crustaceans in oil and rosemary with eggplant caviar and grilled Treviso lettuce or boar with fennel seeds, chickpea purée and toasted black cabbage.
At Il Cigno the ambience here is nothing much and service could be more agreeable, but diners tolerate closely packed tables and, at times, deafening noise for pappardelle with wild boar, risotto, grilled chicken or calf's liver Semifreddo is a happy ending.
Wild boar, served as a special grilled rib chop, was sinewy and chewy.
