From Montecchio to Orvieto
FROM THE OLIVE FIELDS
TO THE TABLE: 100 YEARS OF BARTOLOMEI EVO OIL
Welcome and thank you for sitting at the table with us.
Pleased to meet you: Bartolomei.
It’s the phrase you’ll find on our menu.
It’s not just an introduction: it’s our way of opening the door to our home.
The description continues: We’re not chefs, we’re farmers.
It’s therefore natural to perceive a story that’s completely different from that of a traditional restaurant.
Behind it all is a historic local family that has been dedicated to producing extra virgin olive oil in its place of origin for over a hundred years. There’s work in the fields, the real kind, with hands in the earth and eyes turned to the sky. There’s respect for nature, for its rhythms, for the seasons that teach patience and perseverance.
And then there’s something even more important: the desire to tell and share all this.
Thus, in 2014, an idea took shape, and the fourth generation of the Bartolomei family—Rita, Carla, and Pierluigi—decided to turn this idea into something concrete. These were the foundations of what we now call Ristorante e Oleoteca.
The restaurant we chose was called “Osteria del Corso.”
An important name, one that preserved memory and tradition, but which had become somewhat lost over time. The spaces were marked by the years, the rooms had lost their harmony, light, and identity.
The renovation was a true regeneration project.
We wanted to restore dignity to those walls and bring to light what deserved to be enhanced. Major interventions were necessary: consolidation, new systems, reorganization of the spaces to create a functional kitchen and a welcoming dining room.
Every choice was guided by a specific idea: to create a place consistent with our identity. Natural materials, references to the land, details that speak of olive groves and Umbrian tradition. Not aesthetics, but Authenticity.
We didn’t just want to open a shop.
We wanted to breathe new life into a historic space in the heart of Orvieto, transforming it into a meeting place between the countryside and the city.
It was a challenging journey, filled with dust, reworked projects, choices, and a lot of determination.
But just like in the fields, the best results come when you work with patience and vision.
And so, step by step, the ancient inn has come back to life.
With a new soul. But with the same desire to welcome.
Today, after more than ten years, that project has grown alongside us.
It has become even more ours.
More aware.
More distinctive.
We continue to do what we’ve always done: cultivate, produce, and tell stories.
Only now we do it at the table, together with you.
