Only the Freshest Ingredients

At Bella Notte, we have adopted the philosophy to utilize locally grown vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, fruits, lamb, and rabbit whenever possible. We are always looking to support the community by supporting any local products we can get our hands on thru programs such as Kentucky Proud, a farmers community that specialize in mostly organically grown and certified produce, fruits, meats and game, as well as any word of mouth. We love when farmers show up at the door with a box of ripe, sun-warm tomatoes or fresh produced goat’s milk cheese.

We grow many herbs at Bella Notte that are used extensively throughout our menu and features including basil, oregano, mint, sage, thyme and lavender. It is a daily routine to go to our front garden and clip the tops and sprigs as preparation for the evening’s service, either as garnish or for a bright addition to any of our al minute (made to order) pan jus lie sauces.

Our chefs are solely responsible for all butchering and fabrication of meats and fish on a daily basis. Our fish is wild, never farmed and line caught when possible. Fish arrives every morning and is scrutinized first by the steward and then the chef di partie for quality and accuracy. It’s not only important that the fish is day boat fresh, but it must be free of any blemish that would be the result of mishandling on the fish mongers part such as water/ice damage, tears, punctures and so on. The fish is immediately fabricated and brined in a sea water salinity solution for flavor, moisture balance and quality control. We receive a lot of our meats from Critchfield meats, a local butcher shop, in as whole a state as is practical. Our steaks are not only hand cut, our pork and veal racks are frenched and trussed in house, we cure and age our own pancetta, we cure our own salmon graved lox, we make our balsamic vinaigrette from scratch daily, as well as blending our own spice rubs, marinades and bread herbs. And on occasion we make pasta from scratch.

Another unique component of Bella Notte is the access to a brigade of chefs that will make simple modifications up to complete recipe creations to accommodate our guest. We have a large following of allergy restricted patrons that come to us because of the flexibility our restaurant is able to offer due to so many food items being made from scratch every day, including to the minute sauce preparations. We are able to leave out ingredients or simply adjust quantities to adequate just about any request.