“La Barca” docked on the shores of Forte dei Marmi in 1906, just from the sea: this is not a joke, but the gimmick of Captain Leo Tacchella, who with his tartan boat transported wine from the Island of Elba to the Fort, where he docked the “Barca” ashore and sold wine there. Some time later, the captain thought of opening a restaurant, and so the restaurant was founded, that subsequently passed through various owners, without captains of the value of Leo, until in 1969 Beppe – the host–farmer, as he called himself for his peasant origins – took over it.
