La Rei Natura by Michelangelo Mammoliti

Chef Michelangelo Mammoliti trained for years in France under Ducasse, Gagnaire and Alléno before coming home to Piedmont, and at La Rei Natura — inside the Il Boscareto resort, surrounded by Barolo vines — he cooks something deeply his own. His food draws on neurogastronomy and childhood memory, much of it built from a 200-square-meter greenhouse and garden where he grows 130 varieties of tomato and countless herbs, roots and flowers himself. There are three tasting menus, including a blind one called Mad100%Natura that's the purest expression of his obsession with the plant world. It opened in 2023 and reached three Michelin stars by late 2025 — one of the fastest ascents Italy has ever seen. A two-hour drive from Milan through some of the loveliest wine country in Europe, and worth every switchback.