The best restaurants in Castiglione della Pescaia offer tourists menus featuring ancient Tuscan dishes and wines that are renowned and popular around the world. For example, seafood traditions are especially strong in coastal resort towns.
Restaurants and cafés in Castiglione della Pescaia can generally be divided into osterias, where simple homemade meals are served for locals, and trattorias — small but more elegant places that also offer traditional cuisine.
In addition, relatively inexpensive restaurants in Castiglione della Pescaia are the classic pizzerias (Pizzeria), where pizza is cooked in traditional ovens. Also a variety of variations of pasta tourists can try in establishments Spaghetteria. In most cases, Pizzeria and Spaghetteria now operate under one roof.
Prices in the restaurants of Castiglione della Pescaia are quite high. Therefore, we recommend to visit the fairs of Italian cuisine - sagri, where the dishes of certain regions of the country are prepared and sold in the open air.
The best cafes of Castiglione della Pescaia are open from about 12:00 to 15:00 in the afternoon and then open only for dinner from 19:00 to 23:00. Between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. there is hardly anywhere to eat. Some stores also have a long lunch break, which should be taken into account when walking or shopping.
Prices in the restaurants of Castiglione della Pescaia vary depending on the class of the establishment. For example, in some restaurants, the menu of the day for about 30 EUR per person consists of local wine, a bottle of water, a large plate of sliced meats and cheeses, salad, traditional pasta soup, and baked potatoes with different kinds of meat and grilled sausages. Plus coffee and homemade dessert to finish!