There was an intriguing-looking restaurant kind of across the street from Ristorante Scalette called the Osteria Valle. The menu looked good but we could never figure out if and when it was open. The few times we saw people inside, we couldn’t figure out how to enter! We had actually circled the whole place a couple of times and still couldn’t figure it out. But today, we were actually hungry enough to crack the code (basically, you walk through an unmarked door right into their kitchen).
Oh look, another couple actually worked out how to get inCharcuterie tray was pretty litI had the very, extremely, quite dead liverSam chose Dead Pork ShankMystery dessert taco of death (which Sam loved—think dry mincemeat)Then it was back to the flat for night-night (this is literally my view from bed lol)!Out and about the next day: this is the God of the Car Park again
There is a very well-known restaurant we have been wanting to visit, but we could never find it. There are signs for it all over the place, apparently it is always fifty meters away, no matter where you happen to be standing.
The mysterious Ristorante Umbria!! All their signs are about as helpful as this one (which points directly into a brick wall!!).Finally found it!!They have a spectacular (unheated) patio which wasn’t open yet, being all of forty-five rainy degrees outside here in mid-MarchViews from the spectacular unheated closed patioLuckily the inside is warm & cozy, with a wood fire always burning, upon which they do all their grilling!You can sort of see the fireplace in the far cornerScreenshotThe lamb-chops were killer!!! Sam had a very straightforward dish of grilled chicken, this was surprisingly one of the best meals of the tripAn honest-to-god real actual dessert! Sam is pretty sure they have a French pastry chef here, which would explain itBut Europeans still can’t make a freaking martini… hah just kidding, this was part of dessertOn the wall was a very cool medieval map of TodiI sneaked a pic into their kitchenOne final view from the closed outdoor patio….
For dinner, we went back to Cavour’s for pizza!
The onions in Umbria are really amazing, very intense, so so good!We always referred to Cavour’s as “the warm pizza restaurant” because here we knew we wouldn’t freeze through the meal haha we could even remove our jackets every time!
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