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Restaurants in Pisa
Where to eat in Pisa: cecina and bordatino, the white truffle of San Miniato, and the wines of the Pisan hills.
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The catalogue currently covers Pistoia and Prato, and grows one province at a time. This town may also be listed under a different name: try searching for it.
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Eating in Pisa
Pisa is a river city with the sea close by, and its food sits between the two.
Eaten in the hand
Cecina — chickpea flour, water and oil, baked in a copper pan — is sold by the slice and tucked into a roll. It is the city's snack, and in Pisa it goes by that name, not "farinata".
The dishes
- Bordatino alla pisana — a soup of maize flour, black cabbage and beans, of seafaring origin;
- Salt cod with leeks, the Friday dish;
- Mucco pisano, the recovered local cattle breed, and Certaldo onions in the markets.
Around it
At San Miniato, half an hour away, they gather white truffle, which has its fair in November. The Monti Pisani make oil and wine, and the coast is twenty minutes off: the fish on Pisan tables comes from there.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
Other towns in the province of Pisa
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.