Restaurants
Antica
Trattoria Sanesi
As you drive down the Firenze-Pisa Superstrada
and exit at Lastra a Signa, you will find
the Antica Trattoria Sanesi. Modest on the
outside, but with immense interiors, this
great Trattoria is located on Via Arione,
33, in Signa. With appealing décor,
the Antica Trattoria Sanesi is an old style
trattoria and almost always crowded. Filled
to overflowing with tourists and the locals,
the trattoria serves traditional and sensational
dishes. More
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Il
Ristorante Edy Piu
Surrounded by wonderful Tuscan countryside
and the hills of Lastra a Signa, the Edy
Piu was once a monastery about 1000 years
ago. The leaders of the armies and knights
of yore used to stop for refreshments at
the ancient monastery. Today, the same structure
has been re-built as a 15th century country
house with a restaurant on 94, Via di Calcinaia
in Lastra a Signa. The restaurant is surrounded
by olive groves and vineyards that produce
the Florentine "Chianti" or the
typical Tuscan wine. More
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Restaurant
da Delfina
If you are lucky, you might see Delfina
from whom the restaurant takes its name,
shelling beans or walking back from the
woods with a basket of wild mushrooms, nettles
or herbs to be used for the day’s
cooking. The Ristorante da Delfina can be
counted among Florence’s treasures
and is a must-see, must-visit, must-eat
culinary paradise. Just outside the medieval
walled village of Artimino, Da Delfina is
located on the Via della Chiesa and is just
15 minutes by train from Florence and Signa.
Da Delfina gives you the essence of traditional
Tuscan cuisine. More >>
Biagio
Pignatta
Right next to the Hotel Paggeria Medicea,
the lovely quaint Restaurant Biagio Pignatta
evolves with a historic background on Viale
Papa Giovanni XXIII 1 – Artimino.
Situated on the same estate as the historic
La Ferdinand Villa with the 100 chimneys
owned and built by the Grand Duke Ferdinando,
the hotel and the restaurant are housed
in two adjacent buildings. The building
closer to the villa was known as the ‘Corridoio’
or the corridor that housed pages, grooms
and servants. It is known today as the Hotel
Paggeria Medicea. The building next to this
was called the "Palazzo del Sig. Biagio
Pignatta". More
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Passaparola
As one of the most interesting, delectable
and innovative dishes, the Pizza, pronounced,
‘Pittsa’ is thought to have
been derived from ‘pinza’ taken
from the Latin word, ‘pincere’,
which means to ‘mash up’. Did
you know that the roots of the modern day
pizza can be traced to the Greek colonies
of Magna Graecia in Southern Italy? The
pizza has even been mentioned in Book VII
of Virgil's ‘Aeneid’. The modern
pizza has been embellished by the baker,
Raffaele Esposito of Naples in the Italian
region of Campania. Esposito worked in the
pizzeria, "Pietro... e basta così"
(literally meaning, "Peter... and that's
enough"), in 1889. More
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