Kind people and quite a menu of Tuscan specialties. We enjoyed the Ravioli with butter and sage snd…read morethe (not overly) spicy rigatoni. The half chicken was excellent. No aircon and warm red wine, but nevertheless we enjoyed the evening. One good sign: many Italians!

Its been almost three years. We would love to go back. A great two weeks at Castello Del Trebbio…read moreand visited Al Trebbio multiple times.

Great service.Food was tasty.I enjoyed the menu choices.Try Ravioli.very authentic and clean.read more

Above par service in a quaint little trattoria in Tuscan wine country. It was described as "a…read morehome-cooked meal" and it definitely lived up to the description. Upon arrival a quirky and fun-loving waitress cleared a table and served us immediately. At 2100 hrs, the place was packed with three large parties of 10 or more with three additional small tables seated. We had water, pastas, bruschetta and tea. Everything was delicious! I recommend the "lard" bruschetta, which looked like sliced turkey meat on bread but delivered a very different flavor, one that tasted very good with tomatoes and salt. I also loved the 3-cream cheese pasta. All served promptly and the staff spoke great english. I highly recommend this off-the-beaten path Trattoria. Thank you Francesco!

Saw the reviews on Yelp and wanted to try it since we were staying around the corner…read more Had the Cacio Pepe and Grandma's Lasagna. Lasagna was 10/10 which is why my wife kept eating mine and the Pepe was still very good. Eat here for phenomenal food and value.

I highly recommend this charming restaurant. The owner took great care of us and the food was…read moreamazing! Definitely one of our highlights since arriving in Italy.

It's been over two years since we have been the Castello Del Trebbio - so, when you still think…read moreabout a place after that long it deserves a review, no? The menu is great, the service is great, the food is great, the ambience is great. The Back drop of the Castle oozing Renaissance history is beyond compare. We stayed at the Panicale's for almost two weeks and ate the restaurant several times. If I could give more than 5 stars - I would.

Perfection - We hosted our wedding welcome (rehearsal) dinner at Castello del Trebbio's restaurant…read moreSosta del Gusto. We worked with Alberto and Sabrina on this mission. Both of them were a pleasure to communicate with. Since Alberto couldn't be there the day of our event in July, we dealt mainly with Sabrina during planning. What a huge help she was - she responded to us quickly, answered all of our questions, allayed our concerns with everything, volunteered for small tasks, she was just an incredible person and so helpful, kind, and enthusiastic about everything, she went ABOVE AND BEYOND. I would work with her again in a second. We loved her! Together we planned a 4-course special menu for our welcome dinner - this was a collaborative effort, with Sabrina ultimately giving us the final say and offering much flexibility. I printed my own menus using an online vendor but the restaurant can also print the menus for you. Our guests still tell us how the food and wine were excellent, they were thrilled with the quality, taste and presentation of everything. Sabrina also helped us plan a champagne toast/reception after we started the evening with a castle and wine cellar tour. Everybody loved the our - Marta was an excellent tour guide, very engaging and personable, she had people laughing and learning, and we look back on these memories very fondly. The champagne toast was set up on the restaurant's brick patio, overlooking a valley and more mountains. It is stunningly gorgeous, I didn't want the event or the evening to end. We opted to eat dinner indoors only because our wedding dinner was going to be outside the next day. Sosta del Gusto is totally set up to have an outdoor dinner in the above described patio area. They do lots of weddings at their place and for good reason - it is a really really beautiful property. Even though we never got to meet Alberto he was helpful in initial planning and Sabrina was an amazing hostess - she really is a great person. No regrets at all with going to Sosta Del Gusto and Castello del Trebbio for our event, we would visit again no question. Highly recommend both the castle and this restaurant for any visit or event of any type. Very professional staff and beautiful presentation. Thanks again!!

This was the BEST food on our trip. Rosano is a very small town in Tuscany, very local and…read moreunpretentious town. The Pesto and the Ragout pastas were amazing. You can tell the pasta is made fresh ... I can still remember the texture ... So amazing. I also saw another table eating something delicious that we wanted to order. They look like meatballs but were actually delicious ricotta spinach balls with a little bit of red sauce. I loved it all and wish we could go back. Slightly challenging because they do not speak much English. But we were able to figure it out. If we return to Tuscany we will eat here again for sure. There's also a small meats/cheese grocery store attached if you want something to go.

Waaaaaay amazing!!!! The nice folks helped us three Americans navigate their menu (they have an…read moreEnglish version in the back of the menu booklet). Amazing restaurant! EAT HERE! Super local, recommended to my family by a local who knows her stuff. The waiters, although they didn't know English very well, worked with us Americans and we had the most amazing meal. We started with a plate of pecorino cheeses and a bowl of rustic and fresh asparagus soup. Wow. Then I had the best pasta dish of my life. A homemade fresh pasta with pesto, potatoes, and green beans. It was beyond amazing. My other companions had an onion souflee and the beautifully prepared house rabbit dish. To go along we had the house chianti. All in all fabulous, local, and well worth the trip.

Best Home Cooked Italian food I have ever had in my life! My Grandmother would slap me with a…read morewooden spoon but I telleth the truth! Went 2 nights in a row! Freshest selection of everything! It's this type of place that makes life worth living! I continue to fantasize about this wonderful eatery Every now and then! Bottom line it's worth flying here just to smell the fabulous cuisine wafting from the kitchen! Do they deliver?

Il Fornacino has an adventurous menu that I was excited to try. Like every restaurant in the area…read moreit offers the traditional Tuscan tagliata di chianina (is there a law?) but there's also rabbit stuffed with veal and truffles and a very on-trend Swiss chard, ricotta, and truffled egg raviolone. I started with the latter, which was delicious -- but the powerful flavour of cheese and the egg yolk drowned out the chard. My wife's potato flan was quite nice, but it arrived buried under a heap of truffle shavings that tasted of nothing in particular. My main was a special of roast suckling pig with potatoes and a savoury tuile made with the pork drippings. The tuile was gratuitous -- a chef-y touch that didn't actually taste very nice. The suckling pig was beautifully cooked but the potatoes were weirdly inconsistent; some crisp and others mushy. Il Fornacino is a good restaurant that would be the best restaurant around in most places, but the five-star bar is set pretty high in Tuscany. But the prices were very modest and the wine selection was great. It's a tremendously good value for what it offers.

When browsing Yelp and Tripadvisor reviews in Italy, you often see "best meal in Italy" but I…read morepromise you this really was our BEST meal in Italy. La Sosta was recommended to us by a foodie friend who went 5 years ago and urged us to get the gnocchi. Everything we had was excellent, well-seasoned, and very reasonably priced. We ordered a bottle of wine and was recommended a Chianti from a vineyard 2 km away (18 euros), perfect. We started with the octopus and antipasti platter, my favorite being the soppresata and fried chickpea 'chips'. Next we had the gnocchi (made from potatos only, no egg or flour) with a light cheese sauce drizzled with honey - the first bite felt like heaven, light fluffy nuggets of delicate deliciousness. Next linguine with clams, wild boar pappardelle, slow roasted beef (for 5 hours), and steak tartare (my favorite, a very light steak tartare, no egg, with red onions, pecorini with truffle, and pistachio!), definitely the best steak tartare I've ever had. Everything was good. For dessert, Sicilian canoli and a mango pudding/panna cotta type dish paired with coffee. Note: The Americano might be the best cup of coffee I've ever had, they use Jolly Caffe (seemingly generic coffee you can buy at supermarkets, local to Florence). I can't recommend La Sosta enough. Take a taxi from Florence to Settignano which will cost you 15-20 euros, it's totally worth it plus you get to see a cute Tuscan town. Perhaps go in the day when you can get a view of the countryside on the terrace. BEST meal in Italy!

quality of cusine, service and atmosphere exceeded my expectations for a small town restaurant…read more Subtle sauces on well prepared soups and pastas were artfully prepared and presented. Service was attentive. Serves local wine, Chianti, made in the dame town. Beautiful views iverlooking Fiesole and Florence. Just downhill from Medici villa. The town of Settignano is also a pleasant place to visit, and, by other sourced, a favorite bedroomcommunity for American Expatriots working in Florence. Singing birds permeate the surrounding coutryside. I learned later that this restaurant is locally. About a 50 Euro taxi ride out of Firenze, or Bus 7 from Firenze Statione Centrale. This area, including Fiesole is worth a day trip out of Florence. Hhe nearby villa, Villa Gamberais Settignano has a beautiful garden overlooking views of Florence.