the lake gastronomy

The best deal for price-quality you will find in agriturismo Arcisate: it's an absolutely yummy 10€ (lunch workday) menu which includes primo (usually 2-4 choices of pasta or lasagna/gnocchi/soup), secondo (usually different types of meat, rarely fish), contorno (side dish, again you have a choice of 2-4), big bottle of water (fizzy of still) and a cup of coffee at the end. It used to include a 1/4 of wine too but due to the covid restrictions they put it apart now. The dishes are big, make sure to ask to pack leftovers if you have and delicious and always a good variety, I rarely saw the same selection. Deserts at 3€ are amazing, especially tiramisu and pannacotta, they also sell good quality olive oil, honey etc. If you go for a week day lunch I recommend to be there by midday the latest as hungry workers come at 11.30 and by 1pm they often run out of some of the dishes (often offer a different option though). Also for summer i recommend to book in advance, now they are on Instagram and you can do it there, they answer very quickly