I was at Oliveto for the Truffle festival last night (Friday) and I had a pretty much opposite experience from the previous poster. We each had one course each from the 3 stages (antipasta, soup/pasta, and grills (secondi?)) and they were uniformly good and some were great. Specifically, the wild mushroom tortino with leeks and the wild nettle penette with Bay scallops and wild mushrooms were phenomenal, especially the penette. My wife loved the tajarin al burro, with white truffles shaved on top. For the mains, we had the cotechino, a large rustic sausage stewed over cabbage, and a rabbit braised in Arneis wine with zolfini beans; both great but not as stellar as the pasta dishes. We had shaved white truffles over the all but the cotechino. Really nice, and the service was spot on. Had the quarto (small carafe) of Arneis from Piedmont to start with and switched to a decent Barbera D'alba (quarto again) to finish. Finished with a nice 96 Sauternes (Grillon I believe) with a great chocolate torta with a orange sauce. Spoke to the truffle procurer who said the white truffles served this year were from a couple truffle markets in Umbria, near the Citta di Castello.......
