My husband and I will be in Rome in November and are planning to do a day trip in Orvieto. We love great food and wine and I am a vegetarian. When we visited Florence a few years ago, we did a trip to Tuscany and enjoyed visiting some vineyards. Not sure if there is anything similar in Orvieto worth doing. Any suggestions on eating and drinking would be greatly appreciated.
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Calgary, AB, Canada
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With only a daytrip to see Orvieto, I would focus on the town. You will want to see the Duomo and there are many other sites. There are tons of restaurants in the town, some with lovely views of the Duomo. some tucked along the lovely little streets. I can't comment on which might be best for vegetarian meals. Our favourite little wine bar was Bottega Vero Orvieto, and they were able to discuss the Orvieto wines and make recommendations. I remember we also had a couple of charcuterie plates from there, and I think can have with only cheese if you do eat that.
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Kalamazoo, MI
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We enjoyed a wine tasting and nibbles at Enoteca la Loggia in Orvieto. Not a vineyard, but a wine shop and tavern. Three small plates and three wines for 17 euros! https://www.enotecalaloggia.it/
Our favorite meal was at Il Labirinto di Adriano in Orvieto. Their food is extraordinary. https://www.labirintodiadriano.com/en/
We stayed an entire week in Orvieto and absolutely loved it! The Duomo facade in the late afternoon light is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
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Abruzzo Mountains
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I was in Orvieto in August after a week of “fine” - read “excessive” - dining in Tuscany. We just wanted something simple. Turned down an alley following a sign for a pizzeria and stumbled into one of the most delicious and serendipitous food experiences I’ve ever had.
Claudio AlVicolo is the name of this small but genius pizzeria. The owner used to run one of the large pizza restaurants in town. Now he has downsized and amuses himself with experimental pizzas. The menu has four different pizza doughs, from traditional Neapolitan through farro. After we shared our inability to choose just one, he offered to do a pizza flight tasting for us. He then brought us samples one by one of a pizza with each type of dough. For each dough variety, he brought out a beautifully plated 4-piece sample (there were 4 of us) and described the dough and the topping ingredients. Each tasting had a slightly increasing amount of a “different” flour, either whole wheat or rye or farro. Each one was incredible, but being a smart old restaurateur, of course he knew they were increasingly delicious. The last one was farro with a special prosciutto and fig topping. I’m sure he would drop the prosciutto and some of the others were straight-up vegetarian. All the doughs were light, crunchy, tasty and digestible. We were ready to sit there right through till dinner and do it all over again 🤪 . Great food, great conversation and information, and a really pretty small dining room and outside courtyard. He seemed really happy to take us through all this, and we left topping choices entirely in his hands. It gets busy, either make a reservation or go after the lunch rush like we did.
I couldn’t find a website, but it turns up in a lot of the restaurant review sites. The address is Via di Piazza del Popolo, 6, 05018 Orvieto TR, it’s in the old town off the main road between the cathedral and the town hall.
I live in Italy and eat a lot of good pizza but I was absolutely stunned by this pizza. So were my American friends.