La Brasserie Acquaviva: a terrace facing the mountains, grilled meats and cheeses from the Vidu

A Corsican brasserie in Calacuccia

La Brasserie Acquaviva is a brasserie and bar in Calacuccia, Corsica. Its menu covers seven categories: starters and salads, main dishes, woks, salads, pasta, fish and grilled meats. Here you come across the prawn delight with sweet chili sauce and its guacamole, lifted with a mango, pineapple and mint coulis, the goat cheese salad served nem-style, the Vidu charcuterie plate, the Vidu cheese board or the cheese plate with its fig jam; then the chicken wok, the Cintu salad, the fagottini Périgord-style, the John Dory fillet on its leek fondue with risotto, the tuna tataki with its creamy risotto.

The grilled dishes hold a place of their own: rib of beef served with homemade fries and crunchy vegetables, or by the kilo, rib-eye, beef tenderloin, veal chop, breaded veal cutlet, lamb chop, duck breast. The website’s visuals set the scene: a wooden terrace under a pergola, “Glacier” and “Restaurant” signs, a white facade with a green awning, and the mountains as a backdrop.

A home page that moves like a film

The home page unfolds like a film that advances as you scroll. It opens on “Venez avec appétit.” and on a simple promise: the well-seared rib of beef, to share as you like. Each gesture then moves the story forward, from one dish to the next and from one corner of the place to another.

Under the overline “Pour commencer”, “Nos tomates burrata” appear in front of the bar’s white facade; further on, a dish of pasta is served on the terrace, facing the mountains. The chapter “Côté glacier” shows two ice cream cups in front of the peaks, then comes “Le chèvre en nems”, presented as a starter, under a pergola of cane screens. The texts are brief and let the light and the landscape do the rest.

On a phone, the terrace in your pocket

On a phone, the home page recomposes itself around a large beige paper medallion: the logo, “Calacuccia”, the heading “Venez avec appétit.” and its line about the rib of beef, with the terrace in the background and the sliced meat in the foreground. The Réserver and Commander buttons stay at the top of the screen. The ordering page keeps its slate decor, its cards and its basket bar, and each dish reads large, with its visual and its price.