Day Trips from Cortona - Restaurant suggestions

Day 1: Lucignano. Foiano is good only for shopping at the outlets Village.
Day 2: no Anghiari? Are you kidding me? How can you miss Anghiari? It's the most beautiful village in that area of Tuscany.
Day 3: Arezzo over Sansepolcro any day

Very Near Cortona also Castiglion Del Lago is a must.

North of Arezzo is also the Casentino Valley. Poppi and the Convent of Camaldoli are the highlights there, along with the Casentino Forest National park, the largest national forest in Italy.

I presume you have visited Assisi, Spello, Montepulciano areas already. Also not far from Cortona.

I guess too much for only three days uh?

Good typical restaurants I know:

Arezzo (God there are so many)
Il Saraceno
Buca di San Francesco
Logge Del Vasari
La Tagliatella
L'Agania

Cortona:
La Loggetta

Anghiari:
Feudo Del Vicario.

My parents are from this part of Tuscany, so although I'm a Florentine my origins are here too.

Roberto,

What would we do without you on this forum? Thank you so much for the great suggestions! I will definitely add Anghiari to my stops. Luckily, I have some flexibility.

We love the retaurant La Buccaccia in Cortona. Great food and the owner is a character and makes it fun and memorable. We went to Assisi and loved it on a day trip. Perugia is also nearby.

Sharon,

I quite enjoyed Ristorante La Grotta in Cortona (I dined there a couple of times). It's down a small alley just off Piazza della Repubblica.

http://trattorialagrotta.it/index_eng.asp

Sansepolcro has the Piero Della Francesca painting of the risen Christ, reason enough to go there. And excellent gelato.

Thanks for the additional suggestions! I'm here now and will put those places on my list!

Sharon

If you want to visit Sansepolcro, you can go there when you go to Anghiari. They are 10 minutes from each other. It's a straight shot. I have a country home not too far, so I've driven there many times.
Anghiari is prettier and deserves more time, but you can easily fit both in the same day trip. Sansepolcro has only a Duomo and the Civic Museum to show. The painting of Christ is in the museum.

My favorite restaurant in Cortona is Il Cacciatore (best tagliata I've ever eaten) and very friendly/kind service:

http://www.ilcacciatorecortona.it/

Also very good: Osteria del Teatro http://www.osteria-del-teatro.it/index.php?lang=en