Il Rifugio

Name: Il Rifugio
Address: Piazza XX Settembre, 9, 56048 Volterra PI, Italy, Volterra, 56048, Italia

2.8/5 ★ based on 8 reviews

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Address :	Piazza XX Settembre, 9, 56048 Volterra PI, Italy
Phone :	📞 +988897
Postal code :	56048
Categories :	Italian restaurant , Pizza restaurant ,
City :	Volterra

Piazza XX Settembre, 9, 56048 Volterra PI, Italy

Best Pizza restaurant in Italia

M	Mauro on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Pizzas were uncooked and, despite we complained, they didn't even give a discount, poor them. A dish of grilled vegetables was 1mm of aubergines (x2 slices) and 1mm of courgettes (x2 slices) for €6. Small beer for €3.5, dirty glasses and cutlery, unusable toilette. Save yourselves a really rubbish experience.
N	Navin Olschewski on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Short story: a trap. Long story: our intention was to go to the restaurant on the opposite, which had been recommended in the Lonely Planet. However, as it was closed we decided to try Il Rifugio. As starters we had the crostinis with truffle creme and as a main course pasta in truffle sauce. The crostinis turned out to be 5 tiny slices of bread topped with bland truffle creme (probably cheap supermarket quality) and some sad rocket salad - all together for 5 euros, absolutely overpriced. With our main course I still regret to have given in to the recommendation of taking some fresh truffles with my pasta. For that reason, the restaurant brought us their most jumping jack like waiter - he explained only in Italian (although he was capable of English, as we learnt later) that 1 g of truffle costs 2 euro. I vehemently asked him to use only 1 g, but of course he just went ahead very quickly until I asked him to stop. He now told me that it's 2g, so 4 Euro. I acknowledged it and so we ate our bland pasta. However, the climax was the bill. We received a bill, where the dishes were not named (that's okay), but this was used to charge way more for the two main courses than should have been the case. As we were confused by this, we asked for the menu, went through the bill with the waiter and another waiter and, of course, an "excuse" for the incovenience was found as the waiter just pointed on some dish which cost the named price. All in all, this was our most disappointing dinner in all of Italy (luckily, our first one). Please avoid this restaurant.
T	Torsten Luke on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Food was okey, the dough was not fully cooked. Eventough freshly painted it smells old, the toilet is super old and for ladies not very nice as there is no foldable Ring available.
R	Robert&Rose on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Your quaint bistro had such a wonderful ambiance and delicious cuisine. We especially enjoyed the delicious spicy pizza (returned 3X ; in fact) and pastas. The waitress had been very welcoming and your talented chefs are well worth taking the time to comment on this review. I am a 3rd generation Northern Italian/French American and your cuisine brought back fond memories of my late father's/grandparents home cooking. We especially enjoyed touring the exquisite quaint town of Volterra and were fortunate to have come across your bistro/restaurant. Kind regards and thank you again for making our dining experience memorable. Rose Marie V. (maiden name: Rigoletti) and Bob V.
J	Jason Andreou on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not surprising that the ratings for this restaurant are what they are. Food was not great, neither was presentation or service. Bland and not very tasty- you will easily find better places.
J	Jonathan Bekker on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Coke comes without sparkle, just totally flat. Spaghetti vongole is not bad, but also just bland. Service was acceptable for us, but there are better places around for sure.
L	Lena Falter on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ We chose the place because of the nice location. Very poor service, at first we didn't get glasses with our wine, had to wait rather long for the waiter to come. The food was very underwhelming - the homemade pasta with lobster contained some lobster crust, but hardly any lobster, and the pasta with funghi porcini was made of frozen mushrooms. The only acceptable food was the pizza. No recommendation at all.
H	Henz Burk on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very unfriendly, do not go there. Food was lousy, and they charged us a lot. Expensive, never again.