Melta Park – Gardolo
L’Anfora Restaurant
L’Anfora Restaurant is beautifully located within the Melta Park in Gardolo, surrounded by beautiful meadows and overlooking a relaxing pond, the perfect setting for your special moments, both in winter and summer.
In Trento, there is no other restaurant like it!
And if you add to the splendid location the culinary mastery of Chef Franco Ferraro, who will amaze you with his delights, you will understand that for a truly unique gastronomic experience, L’Anfora Restaurant is indeed the perfect choice! We look forward to welcoming you!
Melta Park – Gardolo
L’Anfora Restaurant
L’Anfora Restaurant is beautifully located within the Melta Park in Gardolo, surrounded by beautiful meadows and overlooking a relaxing pond, the perfect setting for your special moments, both in winter and summer.
In Trento, there is no other restaurant like it!
And if you add to the splendid location the culinary mastery of Chef Franco Ferraro, who will amaze you with his delights, you will understand that for a truly unique gastronomic experience, L’Anfora Restaurant is indeed the perfect choice! We look forward to welcoming you!
The Chef
Franco Ferraro
With an impressive career spanning over 40 years, Chef Franco Ferraro is the driving force behind the gourmet cuisine at Ristorante L’Anfora. Recognized for his skill in crafting 360-degree menus suitable for any type of restaurant, Franco Ferraro has perfected the culinary art, offering experiences that highlight the richness of local products and skillfully blend innovation and tradition.
His extensive experience includes not only creating new and inspiring menus and dishes, but also efficiently managing staff, rigorously controlling food costs, and maintaining consistently high quality standards.
These abilities have turned every restaurant he has worked in into a successful venture and a true gastronomic landmark. Sampling Franco Ferraro’s cuisine means immersing oneself in a culinary narrative where each dish tells a story of excellence and passion, leaving customers eager to return, eager to explore new and captivating culinary delights.
The Restaurant Manager
Denis Rettondini
Denis Rettondini is an engineer by vocation and a restaurant manager by passion.
Always deeply interested in the world of catering, during his years of study he dedicated his free time to working in the sector, directly experiencing the challenges and satisfactions of this exciting world.
After graduating, armed with a unique mix of organizational-managerial training experiences, an innovative vision and an engineering-like, practical, methodical and detail-oriented approach, he decided to follow his passion for catering and, together with celebrated chef Franco Ferraro, founded the restaurant L’Anfora.
Driven by a continuous quest for excellence and a desire to create memorable all-round experiences, this close-knit partnership continues to surprise and delight customers day after day!
A great lesson
The old amphora
Every day, a farmer brought water from the spring to the village in two large amphorae, which he tied on the back of the donkey, which trotted beside him.
One of the amphorae, old and full of cracks, leaked water during the journey.
The other, new and perfect, retained all its contents without losing a single drop.
The old and cracked amphora felt humiliated and useless, all the more so since the new amphora lost no opportunity to point out its perfection: “I don’t lose a single drop of water!”
One morning, the old amphora confided in its master: “You know, I am aware of my limitations, you waste time, effort and money because of me.
When we get to the village I am half empty.
Forgive my weakness and wounds.”
The next day, during the journey, the master turned to the cracked amphora and said to her, “Look at the roadside.”
“But it is beautiful! All full of flowers!” replied the old amphora.
“Did you see? And all this only thanks to you!” said the master.
“It is you who water the roadside every day.
I bought a packet of flower seeds and sowed them along the roadside,
and without knowing it and without wanting to, you water them every day.”
The old amphora never told anyone, but that day she felt herself dying of joy.
We are all full of wounds and cracks, but if we want to we can do wonders with our imperfections.