La Fortezza

This is one of Assisi's great hidden treasures. Since 1960, the Chiocchetti family has offered refined ristorante service and often-inspired cuisine at trattoria prices, and all just a few steps above the main piazza. The cannelloni all'Assisiana are scrumptious (fresh pasta sheets wrapped around a ragù made with yearling veal, all baked under parmigiana), as is the gnocchi alla Fortezza (homemade gnocchi tossed with a garden of chopped vegetables: tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini, peas, onions, and more). For a secondo, try the coniglio in salsa di mele (rabbit in a sort of curry of white wine, saffron, and apples). The wine list is short but the selection good; they even have half-bottles of Umbria's top-rank Lungarotti vintages at wine-shop, not restaurant, prices. The entire family works hard in the kitchen and the stone-walled dining room, and if you take a liking to them, you can stay over in their seven simple but pleasant rooms upstairs for 52€ to 65€.

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