Amazing Food and Service! Would it definitely recommend and return when I am in Civitavecchia. The…read morepasta was cooked perfectly, and the sauces were so rich and fresh tasting. super friendly staff as well

The restaurant was located in a quiet area. We decided to eat outside. We started with the seafood…read moreplatter, where everything was raw. It came with oysters, three types of shrimp, shrimp paste, three types of ceviche, and a carpaccio. My favorite was the carpaccio, which had pieces of freeze dried raspberry on top. The only thing I didn't like was one of the ceviches. We had a plate of fried calamari and shrimp next. The batter was excellent! Lastly, we had a pasta dish with clams. It was simple but delicious. I would say this restaurant was the highlight of our time here in this port city.

Undoubtably the best food you will eat in this area. Very…read morefriendly family serves a predetermined menu which is all locally grown and made right down to the wine and lemoncello!!!

Amazing food! There is no menu and they tell you what they will bring you. Trust it! It's going to…read morebe awesome!

Best Home Cooked Italian food I have ever had in my life! My Grandmother would slap me with a…read morewooden spoon but I telleth the truth! Went 2 nights in a row! Freshest selection of everything! It's this type of place that makes life worth living! I continue to fantasize about this wonderful eatery Every now and then! Bottom line it's worth flying here just to smell the fabulous cuisine wafting from the kitchen! Do they deliver?

Il Fornacino has an adventurous menu that I was excited to try. Like every restaurant in the area…read moreit offers the traditional Tuscan tagliata di chianina (is there a law?) but there's also rabbit stuffed with veal and truffles and a very on-trend Swiss chard, ricotta, and truffled egg raviolone. I started with the latter, which was delicious -- but the powerful flavour of cheese and the egg yolk drowned out the chard. My wife's potato flan was quite nice, but it arrived buried under a heap of truffle shavings that tasted of nothing in particular. My main was a special of roast suckling pig with potatoes and a savoury tuile made with the pork drippings. The tuile was gratuitous -- a chef-y touch that didn't actually taste very nice. The suckling pig was beautifully cooked but the potatoes were weirdly inconsistent; some crisp and others mushy. Il Fornacino is a good restaurant that would be the best restaurant around in most places, but the five-star bar is set pretty high in Tuscany. But the prices were very modest and the wine selection was great. It's a tremendously good value for what it offers.

Large party (30) dinner here. Well served by a full and experienced staff. All of the four courses…read moreserved were very good. The vegetarian options were well thought out. The environment on a Friday evening in May was happening. Lot's of people and music. Alive and enjoyable.

We were moving up the mountain in the funicular, suitcases in tow, identifying us as American…read moretourists, when a Lucca resident recommended we try Mezza Luna and if we did, we should try the Carbonara! We did. And she was right! We went back twice and I ordered the Carbonara twice. It was the highlight of our trip! In addition to the food making us happy, the restaurant made us happy. It is on a nondescript street, down a few steps into a delightful small and cozy cave-room. You really need a reservation to be guaranteed a table. Peeking out from the small kitchen window is the cook/wife/owner and greeting us and taking our order was the husband/owner. They are a team that really cares about the service and doing simple Italian food right! And the house wine was really good!

A very pleasant spot to sit much less eat. The beautiful vaulted brick Ceiling is Beutiful. The…read moreservice impecable and the food .... That's the star. We started with the bruschetta this a simple dish but when too not ingredients are used it's amazing and so it was here. The are known for their pasta carbonar a dm the wife loved it. The ravioli were the star of the show. Perfectly Al dente stuffed with cheese and spinach,the mushrooms and sauce were excellent, great dish.the house wine is very good.this would be my go to place if I lived in Orvieto.

On our first night in tarquinia we decided to try Arcadia. It had very good reviews and is just…read moreinside the town close to parking. It was Friday night and late so I expected it to be full at 8:45 when we arrived. It was actually empty I thought maybe this is a bad sign. Wrong !!! The room is jus classy and beautiful with brick arcaded roof. The ambiance is a that of a night high class restaurant. They have an ex excellent wine list that covers most of Italy'. I asked our waitress to point us to a local white. She recommended an excellent local vermentino which we very much enjoyed. The menu has some great seafood dishes and well as pastas meats etc. I opted for the risotto pescatore. This dish was a amazing, bursting with fresh seafood and flavor. The risotto was perfectly cooked and it was loaded with fresh mussels, clams and langostinos. Excellent and so well priced. This same dish in my hometown miami would easily be double the price at an equivalent restaurant. The wife had a pasta carbonara which was a truly excellent version of this dish. They were both plentiful so did not try the desserts. The service was excellent as was the ambiance. This place deserves to be jam packed every night.

Friendly service, elegant atmosphere, stone vaulted...creative food in a gorgeous setting! Helps…read moreto have some Italian, but the staff does their best to help. The menu features seafood, as well as meat and vegetarian choices. Each of our dishes was perfectly prepared and beautifully presented. Right around the corner from an amazing museum of Etruscan history. Tarquinia is a must-see destination and this restaurant, a must-eat stop on your Italian stay!

My husband and I ate dinner here on our honeymoon 5 months ago! I am laying in bed and was just…read morethinking of how wonderful this place was but I couldn't remember the name. After some google maps investigation here we are! This place was such a delight and it was an amazing memory for my husband and I. The food is incredible And I remember loving the ambiance. Especially if you sit next to the front windows to watch people go by. Definitely recommend!

Very good Italian restaurant and pizzeria specializing in local ingredients and wines. Several menu…read moreitems are "slow food" stars. They have more than 20 types of pizza, thin crust and thick crust, and many very original combinations of toppings. A friend ordered the rabbit with asparagus, which was also good if un-exciting. The local wine of the week was good and good value. It was a good sign that the place was full of locals and that the door was plastered with stickers of recognition.