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Eating Volterra – Pizzeria Il Rifugio

Jul05

Restaurant: Pizzeria Il Rifugio

Location: Volterra, Italy

Date: June 15, 2011

Cuisine: Tuscan + Pizza

Rating: Solid Pizza

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I highly recommend the medium sized town of Volterra. Besides the negative of being the home town of one of fiction’s most ridiculous gangs of vampires (Twilight’s Volturi) it’s a really cool place.


Anyway, we settled in for lunch at this pizzeria behind the mini dump truck. It’s not far from the Museum of Torture, a creepy institution well worth a visit.


The endless menu.


Bread as usual.


A pretty spectacular minestrone soup. Those canned American ones we are used to are just pathetic.


Needs no explanation.


Pizza Margarita.


Pizza al Funghi (with mushrooms).


And my personal favorite, with sausage and gorgonzola. This wasn’t overdone, there isn’t a ton of blue cheese on here, but it was a very good pizza. The sausage was that slightly sweet kind with fennel. Yum.

Click here to see more Eating Italy posts.

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  3. Quick Eats: Pizzeria Mozza
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  5. Eating Gaiole – Lo Sfizio di Bianchi
By: agavin
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