Restaurants in Pisa
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Food and Wines
Cuisine in Pisa offers lots of variety and taste. From the sea to the farm land and on to the sweet, hilly landscape dominated by grain, olives and vines which on the high-ground gives way to rugged, wooded landscape. The many restaurants in the historic center offer typical dishes from Pisa, as well as fine, protected produce such as Monte Pisano olive oil, Pecorino cheese, Parco di Migliarino lamb, Pisan beef, San Miniato truffle, pine nuts, mushrooms, Pisanello tomatoes. There are lots of firstcourse soup dishes during the winter months: really tasty bean or farro soup, Pappa al Pomodoro and Pisan style cabbage soup, while lots of fish soups derive from the sea. Pastadishes worth a mention include Pappardelle with duck or hare sauce. Pallette, little balls of polenta in meat sauce, are also really tasty. You can taste typical Pisan beef, wild boar with olives, lamb fricassee, rabbit and lots of game: hare, pheasant, deer and wild boar, prepared in various ways The land around Pisa, as in the rest of Tuscany, produces great DOC and IGT wines. The main names are: Chianti delle Colline Pisane, Bianco Pisano di San Torpé, Rosso Toscano and Montescudaio; the latter is available in white, red and Vin Santo. Vin Santo is an excellent passito wine which goes does down well with Cantucci dry, almond biscuits.
Restaurants
Prices for a meal here vary between 10 and 30 euros depending on the place and on your selection. Remember that typically (but it should be specified on the menu), you must add 10-12% to the listed prices for service, and (not for pizza places) another 2-3 euros for bread and cover charge. Tipping is neither expected nor required.
A popular dish, sold in pizza places, is the cecina, a salty cake made with chickpea flour, typically eaten alone, or as the filler in the schiacciata (round white pizza).
Budget restaurants
- Pizzeria Vesuvio - Via Paolo VI, 9 (good Italian pizza)
+39 0509711616 - Pizzeria Montino - Via del Monte 1
+39 050 598695
closed on Sundays - Pizzeria Bagni di Nerone - Bagni di Nerone (end of Via Carducci, corner Via C. Maffi)
tel +39 050.551085
closed on Mondays - Pizzeria Cereria alle porte - Viale Bonaini 1
+39 050 2 200 399
closed on Mondays - Pizzeria Cereria - Via Pietro Gori,
33 +39 050 20 336
closed on Tuesdays - Numero Undici - Via San Martino 47 (self-service restaurant, seating at shared tables)
+3905027282
closed on Saturdays at lunch and Sundays - Al Madina - Via San Martino (Lebanese restaurant next to the Numero Undici, has kebab, falafel, etc.)
+39 050 20409
closed on Sundays at lunch and Mondays
- Taverna di Pillo - Via Del Borghetto, 39
tel +39 050.571467
closed on Sundays. - La Tana - Via San Frediano
+39 050 580540
closed on Sundays - Trattoria S. Omobono - Piazza S. Omobono
+39 050 540 847
closed on Sundays - Trattoria I Santi - Via S. Maria 71
+39 050 28081
closed on Mondays - Emilio - Via Carlo Cammeo 44
+39 050 562141
closed on Fridays - La Stanzina - Via cavalca, 30
tel.: 050 577203
Typical sicilian cuisine. - Zen - Via Santa Maria, 105
tel 050.555046
Japanese cuisine.
Closed on Mondays at lunch - Sueño de Ibiza - Via Volturno 23
tel: 340 9963710
closed on Mondays
More expensive restaurants
The restaurants below are on the high end of the price spectrum, and this list is not comprehensive. Some of them offer fancy cooking and/or a good selection of wines, but we suggest to double-check and look them up in travel guides, or search for customer comments on the web, because sometimes reviews suggest that the quality is not on par with the price. Following is a list of some of them, where credit cards are accepted, and (at least some) English is spoken. Advance booking is recommended.-
Osteria Dei Cavalieri
Via S. Frediano, 16
www.osteriacavalieri.pisa.it
Tel (+39) 050.580858
Tuscan dishes and creative gastronomy. Closed on Saturdays at lunch and on Sundays. -
Trattoria da Bruno
Via Bianchi Luigi, 12
www.pisaonline.it/trattoriadabruno
Tel (+39) 050.560818
Traditional Pisan cuisine. Closed on Tuesdays - Ristorante La Grotta
Via S. Francesco, 103
www.osterialagrotta.com
Tel (+39) 050.578105
Closed on Sunday - Osteria Il Fantasma dell’Opera
Via Palestro, 20
www.osteriailfantasmadellopera.it
Tel (+39) 050 542402
Open all Week -
Ristorante da Nando Via Contessa Matilde 6/8 (Porta a Lucca), Pisa. Ph.
+39 050 830672.
Seafood Restaurant.
Closed on Wednesdays -
Re Artù - Via S. Maria 129. Ph.
+39 050 8312130.
Closed on Sundays and on Mondays at lunchtime -
La Pergoletta - via Delle Belle Torri 36. Ph.
+39 050 542458.
Modern Tuscany cuisine.
Closed on Mondays -
Antica Trattoria Il Campano - Via D. Cavalca 19. Ph
. +39 050 580585
Traditional Pisan cuisine.
Closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime