La Terrazza - GAIOLE IN CHIANTI

I am always divided when I review restaurants in the luxury category. it seems small to give a 3 star rating for a place that serves food that is very ambitious and delicious. but I appreciate it in addition to other restaurants in the same price range. in. my understanding is not a target, but a relative scale. a street food joint can be 5 stars, and a gourmet place can be 1. it is all relatiw to contest in this category. I came to lunch, on an improvised little trip. it wasn't quite clear that I went to a place connected to a 5-star hotel. no problem. the lunch menu is limited, but offers only about enough choice. the prices are about twice as high as they normally pay on medium-sized enterprises. antipasti (starter) seemed especially at overpriced at almost 20 euro. I had pasta with lamb sauce. pasta cooked for perfection, only barely on the right side from below. really nice. dish overall was underseasoned, and I noticed that other guests also needed to add salt. Smokey noten from the cheese were a beautiful and untraditional element, but something dominated the taste profile that was otherwise delicate and elegant. spectacular view from the terrace, really pretty. desserts were spoken with 13-14 euro per court, quite cheap relatiw. but 13 euro for a bowl of seasonal fruit? or 13 euro for something ice? I haven't seen her, so I can't say how they were beaten up to this price. I had a vin santo mousse. beautiful slang of what I would call semifreddo as mousse, but after 5 min on the plate they softened and became mousse-like. connected with cantucci (unnoticed in any sense, and I had much better), and dripping berry that made some tartness available. a rather inspiring dish, but in comparison to obstinate or ice cream it seemed the most interesting. now the wine list. it is very extensive, and it has numerous precious stones. but it also does not offer any options if they do not want to spend 50 euro on a bottle (which is the starting point, average is perhaps 70-80.) I had a bottle which seemed to be the better house wine. a chianti riserva at 38 euro. I occasionally enjoy better riserva at half price. very disappointing and not worth the price tag. nothing is wrong with it, but simply does not provide quality on parity with the price. on the other side I had an extraordinary vin santo (which is usually moderate) and an above average grappa. I also have a look at the tasting menus they offer for dinner, and they may be worth a better one. they probably see 100 euro per person with 3 glasses wein.

We have dined here in the first night and came back every evening, in borgo san felice. the food was excellent with great choices, the service superb, and luigi’s weinführung and overall ease made the whole experience worth, repetition and repetition.

We spent a wonderful week in gaiole for l’eroica festival and bike tour. Before we think we're going to pisa to go home, we thought we could eat a tasty bite. we had seen this restaurant with a view of the heart of the village and thought it would be ideal. when we arrived, we were ignored for a few minutes round, while the owner and the waiter went around us to serve the one table. Finally, we were told with a sigh and a teppich of the shoulders that we could sit on the table over there (tilt of the head in the direction.) we sat just to say that this table was booked and we should sit on the next. while we waited for the waitress to look in our direction to order, some German came in. they seemed to be a jolly baptized and told us that they were there to see if the service could be as bad as before, but eating is excellent. our overall experience showed exactly what they said: mülldienst, although we were in the mood to amuse from him, and excellent eating, some of the best we had in the region. will we have been going back? only if we were in the mood to be treated as dirt and to get a laugh from it, and eating is really good.

Great food, service, and large entrees! Overall, a nice dining experience. The wine is a must have and remember you can take some back home too!

Worst food and service we had on our three week trip to Italy. We were the only people there which should have told us something. Would not go near this place again even if I was offered a free meal. Thank goodness the rest of...the places we went to were fully up to scratch