Tuscany Restaurant + Food Tour In Siena and Chianti Classico, Italy! 4k Walking Travel Vlog For 2022
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- During our weeklong stay in Tuscany, Italy, we worked with a local expert to compile an itinerary of 7 unique and authentic Tuscany food experiences throughout Chianti Classico, Siena, and beyond. If you're considering Tuscany for your 2022 Italy Travel, we hope this 4k vlog restaurant and food tour inspires you!
Our first stop also happens to be our family’s first taste of true Italian pasta, as we enjoy an al fresco lunch overlooking the city center of Siena at a little place called Al Mangia. The name comes from the tower of the Palazzo Comunale. With wondrous views of the Piazza, you can enjoy traditional Sienese and regional dishes.
After experiencing the quality and flavors of that meal, we take a short stop to fill the kids with gelato and treat ourselves to a local wine tasting with food pairings, in a medieval village called Monteriggioni.
To wrap up our first full day of experiences, our Inspirato concierge set us up at a restaurant that’s a favorite among locals and just a ten minute drive from our hilltop villa. Il Grillo Moro in Sovicille.
When we decided to venture out and spend a day in the nearby region of Chianti, our trip planner recommended a a spot we couldn’t miss - in the historic birthplace and home of Chianti Classico. As soon as we stepped onto the property at Colle Bereto, we felt like family and were given a behind-the-scenes look at this award winning traditional winery. The vineyards are gorgeously sprawled along the Tuscan hillsides and create the perfect conditions for a variety of top-notch wines. But the pinnacle of this experience was the private wine tasting and organic lunch under the shade of grape leaves and overlooking the sprawling vineyards. In addition to trying every wine in their lineup (and even letting the kids sip a few), we got a taste of the Colle Bereto soul, knowing that every ingredient in the meal was grown, harvested, and prepared right here.
While in Chianti, we had to try Dari Cecchini's famous chophouse from the Netflix special Chef's Table. Officina Della Bistecca lived up to the hype and we even got to meet the man himself!
For our final food experience, we spent the afternoon at Podere Paugnano-a family-run goat cheese farm, learning about the Pecorinos they produce and enjoying an incredible, homemade, family style, al fresco, Tuscan lunch with the family themselves. This farm is completely organic and follows a simple philosophy of respect for nature and self-sufficiency. The setting couldn't be more perfect for a breakaway from a busy life like ours. Every dish is lovingly created by the family and friends of the household using fresh products collected on the farm or produced in nearby organic farms.
In addition to the authentic flavors, we passed the time discussing everything from history to politics and we did almost all of it in Italian… with a little translation help from their oldest daughter and our iPhones. And that was probably one of the most unique experiences from our first year of travel: sitting back with an international family and soaking up their way of life without any concern about what time it was. We’re in love with the Tuscan life.
And that made this experience the perfect conclusion to a fantastic week in Tuscany. As they say, all good things come to an end and now it’s time for us to jet off to our next destination.
Contents:
0:00 Al Mangia, Siena
1:40 Monte Chiaro, Monterrigioni
3:01 Il Grillo Moro, Covicille
6:00 Caffè Casolani, Casole D'Elsa
11:55 Colle Bereto, Chianti
15:31 Officina Della Bistecca, Chianti
21:03 Podere Paugnano, Siena
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OMG red wine for Kids !!!!
Amazing wine tour & tasting! And that meal!!! I don’t often have red meat but when I was in Florence, it was hard to resist having multiple times 😋
Thanks! The steak floentine in Florence is a must… even for vegetarians 😉
You have such a beautiful family! I love seeing the gratitude and pure pleasure for the food. Love your videos. Thank you, Anna
Anna, thank you for that! You’ve made our day 🤗
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Loved Siena!! Ha, I couldn’t say the walled city’s name either 😂
Excellent video!
Thank you! We appreciate you watching.
Love seeing Dario!!
Looks good and tasty food.Happy family enjoy your exploring.I never been there in that country.
I hope you make it to Italy someday. It’s a gorgeous country and so much to explore and taste.
As an florentine i enjoyed your videos. Greetings
Greetings ! So glad you liked them 😊
I had the best steak in Florence last year. And it was so much more affordable than Los Angeles price 😂
Florentine steak is so dang good. We did another trip to Florence and tried it at multiple restaurants. Any chance one of these is where you had it? czcams.com/video/-H7UjnLO0D4/video.htmlsi=-HFc5xP5hd6U0blj
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Man those pastas look awesome, pasta and risotto are my favorite foods by far. I’m curious do you and Phil do intermittent fasting? You guys are really fit, while pounding drinks, pastas and deserts I’m impressed.
Haha, thank you :) We're always changing and evolving our health and diet. We've done intermittent fasting in the past but our bodies seem to gravitate toward it when we're in Europe. I would say we balance our diet by eating very clean and healthy when we're home and indulging and tasting all flavors we can when we travel. It's one of the benefits of a semi-nomadic life. It gives us balance when it comes to diet and exercise when we have a home to come back to between trips.
The restaurant in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, apparently the name is Al Mangia, which Phil says 'the name comes from the tower of the Palazzo Communale," the Torre del Mangia.
Giovanni di Balduccio, the first owner of the tower was nicknamed Mangiaguadagni. Apparently, the reference mangia ( refers to Balduccio's well known habit of "eating through his earnings." Mangiare is the Italian verb, to eat, and Mangia is he/she eats.
Thank you for the correction! Phil has been learning more Italian since this trip. We’re always eager to learn more 😊
L'unica cosa che vi consiglio è quella di far mettere la panna montata sul Gelato. Altrimenti non è un gelato !!! 👍☺️🙏
Good tip 👍🏻😊🤗 🍦
Mai messa ed è buono lo stesso! 😅
are you guys retired? great vids!
Thanks, Alex! No, we’re not retired. We work remotely and balance working while we travel.
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Thank you for watching so many of our adventures 🤗
How do you deal with drinking and driving?
Knock on wood, we haven't had to deal with it yet. In places like Tuscany, with all the wine and those narrow, winding streets with oncoming traffic, it's certainly a consideration. As for ourselves, we love to walk to restaurants whenever possible, use taxis when it's too far to walk, or hire a driver when we need to visit multiple places that are spread into very rural areas (like Tuscany). Private drivers with new Mercedes vans are often VERY affordable in Europe compared to in the U.S.