La Locanda dei Tintori — Restaurant in Unione dei Comuni Valdichiana Senese

One of the best restaurants in Sarteona. This location is not too far from the homes and it is a good walk to get to this place. Since we were a big group, the restaurant was very accommodating and set a table up for us immediately. This restaurant has a lot of dishes on the menu to pick from so it is hard to walk away with something you don’t like.

To start, we ordered a red wine for the table and the servers also provided us with some bread. The bread paired well with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. For the mains, we ordered three ordered of hamburgers with fries. The hamburger was just the right amount (200g) and paired well with the bread and fries. It was nice to have a break from Italian food with this selection. We also ordered the wild boar meat. It was our first time trying it and it was definitely worth the try. It was nice but I’m not sure if I would get it again. We also got the pasta with wild boar sauce and a pasta with meat sauce and cheese. In addition, we got the beef tartare. It was cooked to perfection with just the right amount of truffle. We got a caprese salad for the table and as always, one can never go wrong with a caprese salad. We also got a side the fried vegetables and this complemented every dish very well.

I would highly recommend everyone to check this restaurant out. It has a nice patio area accompanied but some exquisite dinner music. If I’m in the area again, I will check this...

My first visit was July 2019, when I visited Sarteano to inspect a villa that was up for auction in 7 days. I was alone visiting the area around Sarteano for the first time.

I was walking the streets of the ancient city on a hot day when I saw a sign for pizza pointing down a narrow alley. I followed the sign and did find the restaurant, which is far more than a pizza joint.

To make the long story (review) longer, I won the auction, and a mere 5 months later my family and I returned for our first trip to stay in our new 16th century home. On our first full day the 3 of were retracing my steps through the streets of Sarteano, and when my girls said they were hungry, La Locanda dei Tintori pooped to my mind and I led them down the narrow streets to this gem.

The food and atmosphere are that good.

My daughter has celiac (all her food must be meticulously gluten free), and they were more than accommodating. She was excited with her many options, and we all enjoyed our meals, including the 5 Euro house white wine.

Don't come to Tuscany...

We chose this restaurant as one of our party really wanted a pizza and it offered pizza plus traditional Tuscan dishes. As we arrived, we were sat and then the waitress snapped, “No pizzas tonight “. They had texted us just an hour earlier to ask us to confirm our booking so could have mentioned this in advance. Our waitress was very pleasant but all other staff were surly. When our antipasti arrived, two of the dishes were completely different to our order. They had added anchovies and tomatoes- one of our party was vegetarian. A third starter looked like they had raided the freezer for things to shove in an air fryer- a collection of brown, fried lumps. The worst dish by far was the chicken with sauces. It was a dried piece of flattened chicken with what appeared to be frozen chips. And the sauces consisted of a tiny sachet of mayonnaise and another of ketchup! It was inedible. I can only conclude that the chef/chefs had not turned up and it was a...