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It's the intimate connection between food and landscape—what the French call terroir—that makes eating and drinking in Umbria such a pleasure. The olive groves of the Valle Umbra between Assisi and Spoleto produce a wonderfully fragrant, tangy oil, and the vineyards that surround the medieval town of Montefalco yield one of Italy's most serious red wines, Sagrantino di Montefalco. The remote mountain town of Castelluccio is encircled by fields where prized lentils grow; the dense wooded hills between Spoleto and Norcia are prime truffle territory and where weekend hunters bring home pheasant, wood pigeon, and wild boar. All these ingredients and more are used in Umbrian cooking, which can be sampled in rustic trattorias or fancy white-linen establishments.
The best-value gourmet meal in Umbria can be had at this former bus mechanics' workshop on the outskirts of Città di Castello, now restored as a...more
This place vies with Il Postale as the place Umbrian foodies come when they can't afford a high-priced table. The restaurant and attached hotel occupy an old...more
Like Gubbio itself, this wine-oriented restaurant in the heart of the centro storico is a little old-fashioned, with its starched tablecloths and starched...more
If you're stuck for a meal in Assisi, you'll find this bright and cheerful osteria is a cut above the rest. It's set below the cathedral of San Rufino, where an...more
Just south of Lake Trasimeno is the postcard-perfect walled hill town of Panicale, home to this small, utterly charming trattoria. There's a touch of the...more
Umbria's regional capital, Perugia, has never quite had the restaurants to match its vibrant, cultured image. This lively, reasonably priced place on a medieval...more
We're still waiting for Spoleto to come up with a must-eat-there restaurant along the lines of L'Asino d'Oro in Orvieto, but until then, the Osteria del Trivio,...more
This corner bar in the southern town of Todi looks like any number of others where local old-timers (who may eye you warily as you walk in) gather for coffee,...more
The tiny, delightful walled village of Stroncone (just a few miles south of Terni, Umbria's sprawling version of Detroit) is home to this welcoming, mostly...more
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