A Cucina Restaurant

A Cucina, Providenza's farm to table restaurant

Chef's culinary residencies

2025 open from June 27th to September 7th

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Welcome to A Cucina, the wood-fired farm-to-table restaurant of the Providenza art residency. Open all summer, it offers intimate dinners overlooking the Conca d’Oro, crafted from our gardens.

Each year, chefs from around the world join us in culinary residencies that, like our artistic programs, root creativity in the land.

Since 2024, A Cucina partners with the Villa Medici, France Academy in Rome.

Weekdays - wood-fired restaurant and pane e vino bar

From Tuesday to Thursday, A Cucina offers antipasti and wood-fired dishes in a relaxed Pane e Vino format, with a selection of local beers and wines.

Weekends - Tasting menu

From Friday to Sunday, the chef presents a 4- to 6-course menu dégustation, inspired by seasonal harvests and ongoing research.

Locally sourced and ever-changing, it reimagines Corsican and Mediterranean flavors.

Menu price: €48 – Adaptable for dietary restrictions or vegetarian preferences (please specify when booking).

Cultural Events & Grocery Corner

At the entrance, discover the Providenza project, past residencies, and upcoming events.

You’ll also find a small store featuring vegetables, herbs from our garden, and products from Nebbiu’s local producers.

2025

June to late August – Lia Forcioli-Conti (Marseille)

Lia’s cuisine, shaped by research conducted at Providenza on wild plants and oral traditions, offers a sensitive exploration of the Corsican landscape.

Trained at Ferrandi, originally from Ajaccio and now based in Marseille, Lia has moved away from classical gastronomy to explore more experimental approaches to food, notably through her work at Limmat. In 2024, she joined EHESS and launched Inerbita, a project combining anthropology, history, and culinary practice.

Starting from a forgotten Corsican herb tart, Inerbita explores ancestral food knowledge, wild foraging, and edible plants. Selected by Providenza for a new long-term research residency embedded in the territory, Lia has created a living herbarium, hosted a roundtable with local experts, and deepened her exploration of Corsican food practices.

Her summer residency at A Cucina extends this work: field-based insights take shape on the plate. Her cooking becomes a living narrative of plants, gestures, landscapes, and encounters—a form of sensory transmission rooted in memory and the invisible life of Corsica.

August – Alice Héron (Rome)

Starting in early August, Alice Héron will take over the kitchen for a residency focused on experimental culinary creation.

A chef and interdisciplinary artist, Alice graduated from the Design Lab at the Rietveld Academie. She currently lives in Marseille after working in Singapore, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. She is currently in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome for her culinary practice.

Her work explores sensory experiences through food, immersive environments, and visceral sculpture. Blending cuisine, sculpture, and design, she creates total experiences that question the relationship between food, the body, the mind, and memory.

At A Cucina, she will present a series of sensorial and sculptural experiments around the act of eating.

Highlights:

- Opening buffet on June 27 and continuation of the research throughout the summer

- Closing buffet on September 6, preceded by a public roundtable with foragers, researchers, and farmers

2024

July - Canelle Labuthie, Marseille

To kick off this new format, we'll start in July with a chef from Marseille, Canelle Labuthie. An anthropologist by training, Cannelle began exploring cooking in a very personal way. Her research on heirloom seeds sparked her interest in locally sourced products and the stories behind the transmission of plants and family recipes. Now based in Marseille, she has developed a cuisine with mainly Caribbean and Mediterranean influences, highlighting local producers.

August - Arturo Franzino, Sicilian-French

In August, we will have the pleasure of hosting the Sicilian chef and resident of the Villa Medici in Rome, Arturo Franzino, for a year-long culinary residency. After spending his adolescence in Sicily, his passion for connecting with local producers led him on a continuous quest for a more locavore, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective cuisine, revisiting early 20th-century European culinary traditions. After cooking all year with renowned Italian and French chefs from the gastronomic world, he will offer a unique menu that will evolve weekly, showcasing local producers and our garden.

A Cucina is open from June 27th to September 6th, 2025.

We highly recommend booking in advance.

Please note: Chef’s Dinners on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are reservation only (limited seating). For bookings of more than 5 people, a credit card hold will be required.

Booking: 👉 Text us at +33 7 83 89 74 01

👉 Or book a table online here

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