Ristorante Cortona

This restaurant is Italian through and through! From the greeting at the door to the décor to the way the entire staff including the head chef is present when you leave (and asking about your experience!) — yup, you’re in italy.
There is a set menu and we had failed to inform them that one of us was coeliac (gluten allergic). The waiter looked like I’d just insulted his mother when I told him — and ran off into the kitchen forgetting all about our wine or anything else. Makes me feel very sorry for Italians diagnosed with coeliac disease! Turning down pasta is on par with a personal insult — that’s how strongly they feel about it.
But they managed it all, the instant notice regardless. And we got our gorgeous wine, too: An dry Italian sauvignon with a bouquet of elderflower on the waiter’s recommendation. It was delicious!
And what a menu. An amuse bouche of roast tomato and soft goats cheese, three starters of squid and crayfish, swordfish and finally pork, a *delicious* risotto insted of the pasta course (and I don’t even like risotto!) and finally beautiful, beautiful little baby lamb cutlets — one breaded with lots of fresh oregano and mine plain and fuming hot from the pan.
I really can’t think of anything negative to say about Cortona. Go! And go hungry!