Award-winning Chef John Piombo prepares a menu featuring fresh, local ingredients from scratch at Nonna’s Italian Ristorante. The food here is billed as simple, unpretentious and good. Piombo recently accepted a challenge from MyNorth.com (the website of Traverse Magazine, to compete in a local foods showdown and prepared Goat Cheese and Kale Spelt Ravioli with Roasted Rabbit Aspargus and Cream. In accordance with the rules of the showdown, 90 percent of the ingredients for this dish were from Northern Michigan and another 5 percent from the state, making it a 95 percent made-in-Michigan dish.

Contact information:
Wood Ridge Road … (231) 334-5150 … www.thehomesteadresort.com/dining_nonna.php

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Here’s a map of Nonna’s location at The Homestead:

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Please read this excerpt from Norm Wheeler’s story, “The Culinary Yes! Of Nonna’s” which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in July 2011:

It’s a quiet evening in The Village at The Homestead. Months of heavy equipment excavations and re-shaping around the parking area at the base of the ski hill are nearly complete, and four days of constant rain have settled the dust and painted the hillsides the lush green of a cool, wet June. But inside the elegant eatery called Nonna’s, it’s warm and welcoming. Mimi and I are meeting dear friends Bronwyn and Joe to share an intimate evening and to celebrate the men’s June birthdays by indulging in the offerings of Chef John M. Piombo. With wife Sarah and daughters Alessia and Giovanna, Chef Piombo is back in the cool north after a brief hiatus in Miami. By his smile you can see he’s pleased with the return. And soon so are we.

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Click here for Nonna’s dinner menu

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