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Pienza restaurants
Great places to eat in Pienza, Italy
Ufficio Informazioni Turistiche di Pienza
Piazza Pio II, Pienza
tel. +39-0578-748-252
www.comune.pienza.siena.it
Useful private websites:
www.pienza.info
www.ufficioturisticodipienza.it
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* Hotel Relais Il Chiostro Di Pienza [€€–€€€]
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Osteria Sette di Vino
It is just a hole-in-the-wall osteria, with about eight tables inside and out under umbrellas on the vest-pocket piazza of herringbone bricks just off the main drag...but it's the first place I'd come for a meal in Pienza, mainly because of how much Luciano Monachini dearly, dearly loves his hometown and its simple culinary pleasures.
What to eat in Pienza
• Pecorino sampler platter and salad at Osteria Sette di Vino
• Roast suckling pig at Latte di Luna
• Spicy pici all'aglione at Dal FalcoIt doesn't even serve proper dishes. Just magnificent sampler platters of pecorino cheeses, bruschette, platters of selected salumi (various salamis and prosicuttos), beans cooked with onions or chick peas with rosemary, grilled pecorino topped with pancetta (bacon), a house salad of radicchio (with the super-secret family dressing that Luciano refuses to divulge—he won't even tell his wife, though "one day, I might tell my daughter").
Piazza di Spagna 1. tel. +39-0578-749-092. www.portalepienza.it. Closed Wed.
Trattoria Latte di Luna
First time I ate at this little trattoria at the end of the main street in town, I was at an outdoor table between the local Carabiniere chief and a pair of English students studying art next to a cage with a mynah bird named Willy asking passersby "Come stai?" ("How ya doin'?"). Odd, but delightful.
The food is what brings in the locals: pici all’aglione (hand-rolled thick spaghetti in a a spicy sauce of tomatoes and garlic), zuppa di pane (white bean and cabbage soup poured atop sliced of bread), and the house specialty maialino arrosto (roast suckling pig). Via San Carlo 2–4 (at the Porta al Ciglio end of Corso Rossellino). tel. +39-0578-748-606. www.portalepienza.it. Closed Tues., Feb–Mar 15, and July.
Dal Falco
I've always felt you can gauge how popular a cheap eatery truly is amongst the locals by whether or not there's a TV blaring in the upper corner of the room. Tourist restaurants would never have TV on—spoils the whole romantic I'm-in-Italy air, you see. Places where the locals go for a home-cooked lunch at decent prices, however, are proud of their TV. If said TV is almost always tuned to a soccer match (and in the three times I've been to Dal Falco—including once when I stayed in its bare-bones guest rooms upstairs for two nights—it always was), then it's a hard-core locals' joint.
Yes, the atmosphere is a bit Spartan—in a modern room of a modern building just outside the city gates—but the cooking is simple, traditional, and like mamma used to make: pici all'aglione (the region's typical, chewy, hand-rolled spaghetti in a spicy garlic-and-pepperoncino sauce), grilled meats, and pecorino alle brace (a slab of Pienza's famous sheep's-milk cheese sandwiched between slices of prosciutto and grilled). There are 150 labels of wine in the cellars, but the house red itself is excellent. Piazza Dante Alighieri 7, Pienza. tel. 0578-749-856 or 0578-748-551. www.ristorantedalfalco.it. Closed Fri.
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