ristorazione — Città della Pieve · Umbria
Città della Pieve, a medieval hamlet on the border between Umbria and Tuscany, holds in its historic centre an address that passers-by discover by its scent: Da Laura Ristorante, run by its owner with the direct care of someone who has made hospitality a daily, deliberate choice.
The door opens onto a family-run business in the fullest sense: the owner welcomes, guides and serves with a courtesy that guests describe as rare and genuine. The restaurant sits at the heart of the historic centre, among the red-brick lanes of a medieval hamlet that belongs to the international Cittaslow network, the towns of good living, on the border between Umbria and Tuscany.
The dining room welcomes guests all year round, and in summer extends onto the veranda. With uncommon generosity, the welcome is extended to dogs too. The menu weaves together two distinct souls: Umbrian-Tuscan tradition with its game dishes — tender wild boar, stuffed rabbit and guinea fowl — and a refined menu of fresh sea fish, a precious rarity in an inland hamlet.
In the kitchen, pasta is made by hand every day: pici and umbrichelli, rolled out with the patience of age-old gestures. They are the thread of the story — the pici all'aglione that one guest placed "on the all-time podium," and those with truffle, with generous shavings of a tuber that feels at home in this corner of Umbria and arrives straight onto the plate.
Handmade pasta, truffle from the territory, slow-cooked fire: three elements enough to tell an intention. The full page is just a few steps away.
