{"id":1877,"date":"2021-06-29T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:07:12","slug":"il-pomodorino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"Il Pomodorino"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you love wine tasting and you love Italian wines (that would include us), you should definitely visit Tuscany.\u00a0 And if you visit Tuscany, you should definitely spend some time in Siena, a city where the best of the Renaissance seems to be just yesterday.\u00a0 If you go to Siena, you should definitely wander around at night<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you want to have some fun while you\u2019re wandering around, you should have some pizza at a restaurant called Il Pomodorino.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Il Pomodorino in Siena.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of Casa-Worldorgs.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

Power Tasting is not in the business of restaurant reviews, so we\u2019ll simply say that you can get very good pizza at Il Pomodorino.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot like saying you can get very good steak at Whole Foods.\u00a0 It\u2019s true, but it\u2019s hardly exclusive.\u00a0 There are a lot of places in Italy where you can get very good pizza and we\u2019re not getting into the question of where to get the best<\/em> pizza.\u00a0 But we\u2019ve never had more fun eating pizza than we did at this spot in in Siena.<\/p>\n

For one thing, Il Pomodorino is always full and everybody else seems to be having a good time.\u00a0 There are lots of families and therefore a fair number of children.\u00a0 Dinner times, by American standards, are rather late in Italy.\u00a0 We always wonder how the kids are going to make it to school the next day, but they do seem to make it.\u00a0 There are also young lovers out on a date, older folks still convivial after a half a century, and the occasional tourists.<\/p>\n

Unlike many other places in history-rich Siena, there aren\u2019t that many foreigners dining at Pomodorino.\u00a0 That may be because it\u2019s a bit difficult to find the place if you\u2019re starting from the center of town where most of the hotels are located.\u00a0 Getting there from the famous Piazza del Campo at the very middle of Siena necessitates walking through some pretty dark streets and back alleys.\u00a0 For the real Sienese, who mostly don\u2019t live in the touristy areas, it\u2019s not so hard to get to Il Pomodorino.\u00a0 For them, it\u2019s just down the hill from the big stadium, so maybe the crowds at the restaurant are just post-game celebrants.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere at Il Pomodorino just draws you in.\u00a0 When the other patrons hear you talking English, they\u2019ll ask you where you\u2019re from.\u00a0 No matter where you live in the States, you\u2019re bound to find out that someone at a nearby table has a cousin living there.\u00a0 So you\u2019re almost a member of the family already.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The view from Il Pomodorino.<\/em><\/p>\n

While you can eat inside, you really want to join the party on the terrace outside.\u00a0 Perhaps even more important, you are treated there to a spectacular view of the heart of Siena.\u00a0 The dome and the roof of the Duomo (cathedral) and the Campanile (bell tower) are the most obvious sights, but the tiled roofs over the homes add to the viewing pleasure.\u00a0 Just below you is the home and shrine of Italy\u2019s patron saint, Santa Catarina.\u00a0 So even if you\u2019re not in a party mood, Il Pomodorino is worth it, just for the vista.<\/p>\n

If you want to feel Italian and not just a visitor to Italy, we suggest you have a meal at Il Pomodorino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you love wine tasting and you love Italian wines (that would include us), you should definitely visit Tuscany.\u00a0 And if you visit Tuscany, you should definitely spend some time in Siena, a city where the best of the Renaissance seems to be just yesterday.\u00a0 If you go to Siena, you should definitely wander around … Continue reading Il Pomodorino<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}