The Cactus Garden
Alessio Sebastiani’s garden
The Cactus Garden is one of the dishes that best reflects Alessio Sebastiani’s hand. It was not created as a rich side dish, nor as a composition put together just to look good. It is a true dish, designed as a small vegetable map, where every vegetable has its own cooking method, texture, and character. Fifteen types of seasonal vegetables become the starting point for a tasting experience that changes with the season, but always remains recognizable: fresh, colorful, direct, full of life.
Fifteen vegetables
The strength of The Cactus Garden lies in the hidden work behind it. Some vegetables stay crisp, others become softer, others are roasted, marinated, seared, or left closer to their natural state. The dish works because it doesn’t treat vegetables as something to lighten or correct, but as real matter, with flavor, memory, and structure. Alessio Sebastiani builds it as a balance of temperatures, cuts, and textures: the bite changes, the flavor moves, and every element has a reason to be there.
The chef’s idea
In this dish, Alessio’s vision comes through clearly: a vegetable cuisine that doesn’t want to feel restrictive or overly polished. The Cactus Garden has a fresh, clean side, but also a more instinctive, almost playful one. It is a dish that requires technique, but never puts technique in front of everything else. Technique is there to let the vegetables speak, not to cover them. That is where it becomes a signature dish: it doesn’t simply represent the restaurant’s green philosophy, it makes it concrete, visible, and edible.
The Cactus Garden
The Cactus Garden stays with you because it is never still. It changes with the available vegetables, with the season, with the sensitivity of the kitchen, but it always keeps the same idea: bringing vegetables to the table in all their forms. There is sweetness, acidity, crunch, softness, juice, aroma, and color. Every bite can be different from the one before, and that is exactly why the dish never becomes monotonous. It is the garden according to Alessio Sebastiani: not a green decoration, but a true experience of taste.
