Osteria

What's the difference between an osteria and a trattoria?

It strikes me you have never put your nose inside a Roman osteria on a wet day in July!

And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.