Radici — Restaurant in Pisa

I have been several times in this restaurant and I enjoied the food, specially the fish and its freshness, and various tasty antipasti. However yesterday I was here with a foreign guest and I decided to trust the waiter who offered us a Degustazione antipasti, a selection of fish appetizers of his choice. That was a mistake: he brought us a selection of cold dishes: some prawns on a chickpea sauce with no flavor, some clams sprinkled with crumbled bread and parsley again without any flavor, than some fried fish which was cold and full of bones, mullets on tomato sauce barely acceptable and a finally an acceptable octopus salad. We didn’t eat it all, confirming that no one liked it. As a first course, I got spaghetti with clams and bottarga di muggine, one of my favorite dishes, but this time it had no taste, the bottarga tasted like bread crumbles. Even my stomach didn’t like it and at night I had an esophageal...

If you are looking for a good restaurant just a little away from the heavy tourist area of Pisa, I recommend Radici. They accommodated our large party of non-Italian speaking people. There was a small amount of confusion with the waiter over placing orders for antipasti and primi piatti at the same time but again, this isn't a typical tourist spot so it's going to be a different experience. The eggplant Parmesan is off the charts yummy, and I had the vegetable salad (find it in secondi piatti) that was everything I could hope for in a salad. The pasta servings are quite large but my nephew managed to eat 1.5 servings of the lobster pasta because it was that good. Prices are very reasonable. Lunch for 10 with 5 bottles of water, 3 cocktails, and 2...

I had an incredible meal at Radici Pisa — truly one of the highlights of my trip. The pasta I ordered was a seafood dish (I wish I could remember the name!), but it was absolutely phenomenal. The flavors were rich and balanced, with the freshness of the seafood shining through in every bite. The pasta itself was perfectly cooked, with that beautiful handmade texture that makes all the difference. You could tell a lot of care went into both the ingredients and the preparation.

The service was lovely as well — warm, attentive, and genuinely welcoming without being overbearing. It made the whole experience feel even more special. Highly recommend this place if you’re in Pisa and want to treat yourself to a truly memorable...