Restaurants in Volterra
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Osteria Il Ponte San Lorenzo
Around 15km out of town, you can get superb, home-style cooking and ambitious set menus at this rustic restaurant. Take the SS439 road south, heading towards Pomarance. About 3km beyond Saline di Volterra you enter San Lorenzo; the osteria is the highlight of this tiny, blink-and-you'll-miss-it village. They have a few rooms and the accommodation price includes breakfast if you're too bloated to drive back to Volterra.
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Trattoria il Poggio
A popular restaurant where the cheery waitresses bustle around and find time to chat with the regulars between dashes to the electric dumbwaiter raising food from the subterranean kitchen. There's a good set menu, an outdoor terrace and rich dishes such as scampi and rocket, or ravioli with asparagus and ham in a parmesan cream sauce.
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Il Porcellino
Despite its dangerous proximity to Piazza dei Priori and its tourist beacon, postersized menu, this place dishes out decent meals at very reasonable prices. The menu includes game dishes, seafood and some surprises, like boar with olives. There is also a variety of set menus.
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Pizzeria da Nanni
A hole-in-the-wall-plus – the plus being the excellent pizzas that Nanni spatulas from his oven while sustaining a vivid line of backchat, notably with his wife. Unscheduled closings are increasing as the couple eases into retirement.
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Ristorante Don Beta
With four truffle-based primi piatti and five secondi enhanced by their fragrance, this is the place to sample the prized fungus, which abounds – insofar as it abounds anywhere – in the woods around Volterra.
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Osteria dei Poeti
Get here right at noon, before the business lunchers fill the last seat. Typical Tuscan fare includes antipasto del poeta (€15), a rich assortment of canapés, cheeses and cold cuts that is an unexpected delight.
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Visola del Gusto
Gelato lovers look no further: this place serves the freshest in town, starting at €1.50 for a small cone.
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Trattoria del Sacco Fiorentino
A great little vaulted trattoria that serves up imaginative dishes with a happy selection of local wines. Try the piccione al vin santo e radicchio rosso (pigeon baked with red radicchio and wine) or the critical mass of flavour in the beef tartare with artichokes and fresh onions.
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