Lunch in Tuscany: Osteria La Porta

Welcome to Osteria La Porta
Welcome to Osteria La Porta

Planning a trip to Tuscany? We’re thrilled to share this recommendation.

Following a late start and a long drive, we had the great fortune of enjoying lunch in Monticchiello di Pienza with Pamela Sheldon Johns at her good friend, Daria’s restaurant, Osteria La Porta. If Pamela’s name isn’t familiar to you (it should be!), we carry her fine cookbooks, such as Cucina Povera, and her olive oil, Pace da Poggio Etrusco.

Pamela and Carol, looking at Pamela's Cucina Povera
Pamela and Carol, looking at Pamela’s Cucina Povera
With Daria and Pamela Sheldon Johns
With Daria and Pamela Sheldon Johns

We arrived toward the end of the lunch service and were charmed by the hospitality and excellent food. My craving for pasta with truffles, though not on the menu, was promptly addressed. Other gems included perfect duck, and a pasta ravioli with pumpkin.

The restaurant was charming, the host welcoming, and the town was ever appealing with a view toward Pienza.

Certainly a day or two spent in the area of Pienza or Montepulciano, could only be enhanced by a visit to Osteria La Porta.

A view from the mezzanine
A view from the mezzanine

Lunch in Tuscany was followed by dinner in Bologna. Don’t miss that upcoming post.

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