I would certainly recommend. We stopped in for pizza lunch after visiting the leaning tower and it…read morewas delicious. I got essentially the pepperoni red pizza and my fiancé got a mortadella white pizza. I think the pepperoni red pizza was fantastic. Service was great!

A very lovely spot located on a beautiful street. The mista salad was only fair because of the…read morebitter greens they incorporated into it. The pizza was good but not great and the Branzino was dry. Service was so so, we had to fetch the waiter to take our order. If we had had a great experience we would of course come back tomorrow.

A real find for lovers of Tuscan cooking. A family restaurant using the old family recipes…read more Charming host Paolo speaks great English after 13 years in London. His father is the chef, his mother baked the desserts. Menu highlights were fresh truffle tagliatelle, pasta ragu, tender pork with raisins and sage, fried rabbit with lemon eaten with your hands out of a basket. This is seriously good home cooking at very reasonable prices.

Happy to stumble on this quaint spot after a long travel day. Server was friendly and attentive…read moreand the pasta with clam sauce was especially delicious.

Fantastic meal, beautiful atmosphere, and warm, friendly service. We highly recommend the filet and…read moretheir awesome wine selection.

Driving to this place for lunch was a very good idea!!! Figuring out the parking was tricky but…read moreonce you see the big blue "P" sign after turning to the left at the top of the hill, lots of parking spaces are seen. They're us a lot to the left and I think more spaces below. The bufala mozzarella cheese is wonderful. Fresh melon is a winter melon with exquisite flavor. Their balsamic vinegar was the best I tasted all week and that was after being to Volterra, Siena, Lucca, and other smaller Tuscan towns. I got the shrimp in creamed chickpea sauce and it was excellent!!! A treasure in the hills. Staff speaks English and are wonderful!!! I can only imagine how wonderful dinner would be.

I was in Lucca and stopped here for dinner. The reviews were good and the menu online showed more…read morefish being offered I thought they would have more seafood, but being in Tuscany, I realized that most places don't. That's OK. The inside was very homey and nice. The owners, I believe are a husband and wife team who are helpful. Salmon carpaccio was an appetizer special - it was excellent Swordfish for the main was a mistake. Should have stuck with a pasta. This fish looked like it was frozen and it's was fair, nothing special. Tiramisu for dessert was so good. totally made up for the swordfish. It was made fresh that day and you could tell. This and the service raised the rating from to 4.

Good food, we enjoyed our lunch, it was very good. Service was OK, it was not that busy but we went…read moreduring an off hour.

The food was subpar and the service was horrible. This place is not for tourists. It's a nice place…read morein a great location, but they don't appreciate tourists. There was an obvious favoritism shown to the locals as there was only one couple in the restaurant when we came in and every other table that came in after us was served, ate, drank espressos, and left BEFORE we ever had our food.

We didn't really think we were gonna have such a wonderful meal at this modest, homey, family run…read morerestaurant. What started out as a late lunch while discovering the hillside town of Peccioli. We had ducked in to pick a few pastries from the shining cold-case, and saw that there we tables open, so we said..."Wanna...?" We were so impressed with the food, the savory waffle, the steak tartar, the cheesecake and pastries. The atmosphere and loving family service made us feel like we were locals who had stopped into our regular place. We finished with a rich cup of coffee and Ferretti's famous Biscotti. Those biscotti are sooooo delicious that we had to buy a couple of containers of them for the road.... they traveled with us throughout Italy and we hoarded them for morning coffee each day. Our waiters were the sons of the owners, and they were so charming. They shared with us some of their own travels, especially in the U.S. (our home). Our advice; roam the farmers' market in the town square and, right there, stop into Pasticceria Ferretti. They even have a nice sidewalk seating area in that pedestrian only area. P.S. The town has a great parking garage with a famous modern-art foot bridge.... memorable, photogenic!

It's traditional Tuscan restaurant. Meaning - if you are vegetarian, don't bother. On the day we…read morewere there, no pizza was available, for unknown reasons. They have some non-meat dishes, but somewhat strange and not many of them. Meat options - that's different, probably 3 pages. No English translations in the menu, but staff was able to explain what is what. Talking about staff, they seemed to be concerned with many things, but customers were low on priority list that evening. I had entrecote, ordered it with grilled vegetables, but vegetables never arrived, despite asking twice. All in all ok, but not very pleasant experience.

When we came into the restaurant, we noticed, that we where the only guests - so we had some doubts…read moreif it would be a good idea to eat here. Unfortunately we couldn't find any alternatives in Pontedera, which lead us to the decision to be brave and eat here. As soon as the starters - it should have been a selection of typical italian ham and sausages - were served, we got absolutely sure, that it wasn't a good idea to stay! Some slices of unappetizingly meat products on a greasy eighties-style plate... Unbelievable, but the main course was able to lower the level several steps! The meat was at least questionable when not mouldy, it's presentation was just unloving, quick and dirty. Overall not the typical meal experience you would expect in Tuscany.

The BEST, freshest food! The BEST service! We saved this restaurant for our last night in Italy…read more Now I wish we went there on our first night because then we could have gone back at least twice more! Go and enjoy.

Our first dinner in Tuscany and it was delicious! Service was great! Food was just what the…read moredoctor ordered. So good. Highly recommend you go!

If I could give it more stars I would! We wanted to sample the local seafood and pasta and we had…read moresome of the best we've ever tasted. We had tomato and shrimp on crostini, it was so perfectly flavored the tomato and shrimp were the star! The salmon with crostini was another star! We also had Spaghetti with Clams and Spaghetti with a seafood tomato with cream sauce. Both were decadent!! The name translates to Sea Tavern and it delivers, feels like you are in a tall ship stateroom for your meal. Several tables with their own intimate areas. The service was great, while we speak minimal Italian, we got by and had a great experience Highly recommend

My wife and I went to Pisa for a quick visit. After seeing nothing that looked good, we spotted…read moreLivorno nearby. Good seafood is always found by the sea. A quick yelp search and we found Osteria del Mare. The restaurant is small and quaint. The service is friendly and relatively quick. Some English spoken. We managed between our weak Italian and their weak English and good Spanish. It looked like every table had the mixed seafood salad as an appetizer. Check. Giant bowl of mussels, clams, langostines, and oysters. Just get it. The Shrimp gnocchi were awesome. Homemade gnocchi that were creamy with beautiful garlicy cream sauce and super fresh shrimp. The seafood stew was the show stopper though. I was expecting a whimsy bowl of soup. Instead I got no less than 3-4 lbs of super fresh mixed seafood in a spicy tomato based broth. I looked at the waiter and asked if he left anything in the ocean. He didn't speak English but laughed and handed me a bib. Haha! There may be better food in Livorno, but this town was one and done for us. In the end it was one of the best meals of our vacation.

Awesome place in hilly town of Chianni. You might want to place a reservation before going…read more Service, food, location, all perfect though.

I hate to recommend this place only because it will make it more crowded when we go back…read more This was the best meal and service we have experienced in our Italy lifetime. Incredible! Thank you, Simone and Mama!

Amazing Place! Charming atmosphere and the food is so good!…read moreI suggest to everybody the "Ravioli alla Bottarga" dish, because it's wonderful! I will surely go back very soon!

What a marvelous evening! The setting is beautiful, the food exquisite and the staff extremely…read morefriendly and willing to extend themselves to bridge the language gap between us who don't speak Italian and them who don't speak English. We felt very welcome, receiving unasked for extras.