Trattoria Dardano — Restaurant in Cortona

Stunningly bad food. Ordered the mushroom bruschetta, fried porcini mushrooms, paparadelle with wild boar, and pici with tomato sauce. The mushroom bruschetta and fried mushrooms came out first. The bruschetta appeared to be bread slices with canned cream of mushroom soup poured on top, pretty much inedible. We were early for lunch, so the fried porcini mushrooms likely suffered from inadequately heated fryer oil - slimy, limp, yuck. The pici was too large, too doughy, and covered in what seemed to be canned polpa. The paparadelle with wild boar was excessively salty, and was basically noodles with some fried meat tossed on top. We dined at many other places in Tuscany, and this was hands down the worst. Honestly, they should just...

We came for dinner without reservation since it was close to our Airbnb and recommended by our host. We are five members family with a 9 month old. The owner was friendly and gave us comfortable spot near the entrance. We had two pasta dishes, three meat dishes, three veggies side dishes and tiramisu as dessert. Pasta with truffle was more on aldente side, but the home made spaghetti with tomato sauce was better. Beef and Lamb were okay ( but i had the feeling it came a bit cold), the chicken/duck however were too dry. Our waitress also forgot all the time about bringing our side dishes. However, our biggest dissatisfaction was due to the Tiramisu. It was over sweet, tasted like fridge and looked like...

Cosy ambiance (slightly kitschy maybe) and very nice couple running the place. Very enthusiastic about their business and told us they have a local farm that produces all the food they serve. Feels very Tuscan (prosciutto crudo was being sliced in the corner) and welcoming, you can tell the owners love their work, and the food was great. I had the very first olive oil of the season (in October, straight from the press 5 hours earlier) and the lamb...