{"id":82,"date":"2007-01-03T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doylelogan.com\/anywherebuthere\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-07-13T00:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:45:50","slug":"82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunsetdrivestudio.com\/travel\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Villa Gaidello"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A beautiful Italian farm and a fantastic homemade meal: what more could you ask? The Villa Gaidello, just outside Modena, Italy is our favorite sort of inn: comfortable, full of character, family-owned, moderately priced, completely unpretentious, and serving delicious, lovingly-prepared food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lets start with that food. We knew we were in for a treat when we saw the ladies making the meat tortolini through the kitchen window. There is just one set family-style meal served in the farm’s large dining room. We sat down at a table with our places stacked high with plates on pretty hand embroidered linen. The owner, Signora Paolo Bini, came to the table to chat in Italian. First a bottle of sparkling Trebianno wine made on the estate was poured. Antipasti appeared: parma ham, salami, mortadella, pickled onions, marinated artichoke hearts, and these amazing little deep fried puffs! Then we had those handmade pork tortolini in broth. Then a plate of larger tortoloni, ricotta stuffed, with butter and sage leaf. Then a roasted chicken (delicious!!) with roasted potatoes and a little green salad. There was a bottle of red wine…a local San Genovese. Then some deep fried sweet cheese thing\u2014I’m not sure what exactly\u2014with some deep fried zucchini strips. Then a dessert of a sort of chocolate and vanilla puddings on a biscuit, with some candied fruit and whipped cream. And some sort of unlabeled fortified wine with it, and a coffee, and a meringue and a cookie! A fabulous dinner with no effort on our part at all. No one speaks any English here, but they are never-the-less very friendly and chatty! The atmosphere is totally unpretentious, with makes it especially fun; the food is served by a girl in an apron–no tuxedoed waiters here\u2014but it is so fantastic.<\/p>\n

The rooms\u2014suites really\u2014in various farm buildings are charming and quirky. We had two bedrooms, two sitting rooms, a kitchen, bath and hall–all for just the two of us. The suite was furnished with funny old things, some very pretty, some rather shabby, but all quite comfortable\u2014rather like staying in a private home. I would recommend a room here on the main farm, rather than in the newer annex down the road. The grounds are beautiful, with trees and gardens lots of lovely details and even a lake full of swans!<\/p>\n

I will confess, we discovered this inn through a mention in Travel+Leisure Magazine\u2014but it is very un-Travel+Leisure, and if your favorite hotel is the Ritz-Carlton, it may not be to your taste; but for the rest of us, it is a real find. Dinner for two, and our huge suite that could have easily slept four, plus a tasty breakfast totaled a reasonable \u20ac200. Convenient to Modena and Bologna, it is also well worth a special trip.<\/p>\n

Mornings the inn is managed by Signora Bini’s American-raised niece, a good time to call if you need to speak English, but fax or e-mail reservations are probably easiest.\u2014Clay Doyle<\/p>\n

Written 2002, revisited October, 2006<\/p>\n

Villa Gaidello
18 Via Gaidello, Modena
39-059\/926-806,
fax 39-059\/926-620<\/p>\n

www.gaidello.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A beautiful Italian farm and a fantastic homemade meal: what more could you ask? The Villa Gaidello, just outside Modena, Italy is our favorite sort of inn: comfortable, full of character, family-owned, moderately priced, completely unpretentious, and serving delicious, lovingly-prepared food. Lets start with that food. We knew we were in for a treat when … <\/p>\n

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