The Tourist: cuisine restaurant to eat well in Pisa

"The Tourist" is trained as a restaurant for tour groups and tour operators are located a few meters from the Leaning Tower, has 5 dining rooms with frescoes second end 800, and a beautiful Tuscan-style garden.

Our chefs cook healthy food for you in the traditional (read the menu by clicking here )

Tourist Services

By partnering with our partner Top5Viaggi , we offer a complete service to Tour leaders and tourism services for every need, for example:

• Transfer by train from the Tourist Bus Terminal to the restaurant and back.
• Mini Tour of Pisa
• Navigating the Arno River Boat

... And much more!

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Special Services:

Celiac: The Tourist also offers complete menus without gluten (Booking is recommended)

Disability: the tech observes its local needs.

The corners or cantuccini, were born as Biscotti di Prato. They are known worldwide, and also widely imitated, are relatively easy to make at home, although the main element for the success of the recipe is above the cooking technique.

The ingredients to make them yourself are:

500 grams of flour, 200 grams of sugar, 150 grams of butter, 300 grams of almonds (with skin), 4 eggs and a packet of baking powder.

Place the flour "fountain", then add 3 eggs, yeast and sugar. For more spice cookies can scrape a bit 'of lemon peel, but be careful not to exaggerate: the bark has become too acute after baking the dough, then use only a light scraping.

You work the mixture up to a long soft and elastic dough. Only then you add the almonds to the dough, still working just enough to distribute evenly.

The dough is then divided into large loaves plus or minus 6 cm and 1 cm high, that you will support the oven on baking paper covered from the finger is thoroughly brushed with the remaining egg. They cook in the oven for about 20-30 minutes at 180 degrees until they turn brown on the outside. Now we turn out and - after about ten minutes - cut obliquely with a large sharp knife (making a clean break and decided to cut well almonds).

Cantuccini you can enjoy cold accompanied by a sweet wine, and obviously we can not recommend the combination with the typical Tuscan Vin Santo.

June is over now and we want to talk about the most beautiful event held in Pisa at the end of June Pisano: The Game of Bridge, which will take place Saturday, June 26.

The Gioco del Ponte has its origins in the days of the Maritime Republics, when it was called Mazzascudo and fought on the bridge means with tarragon, the wooden clubs.

Over the centuries, the game was resumed and stopped several times in this century had begun to play in 1935 where he began to make a modern version of the game. After the termination date of the Second World War the game was played until 1963, then discontinued until 1981. 81 has blown only one issue: that of 2005.

The game opens with a wonderful parade in historical costumes (over 700 listed) of which 41 riders.

The city is divided into 2 parts: Tramontana (north side of the river Arno) and southern (south) and each part is composed of six magistrates.

The game takes place on the Ponte di Mezzo, and unlike the ancient Mazzascudo, the judiciary is faced against a truck on a place on the Bridge: The game is to push the cart toward the enemy to break up the flag.

The fights will be 6 and a draw will be held in the beautiful. The party that loses will spend the night with street lights off.

So for all the tourists who would like to see a beautiful event, please go Saturday 26 / 6 afternoon on our Lungarni from 17.00.

For more information: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioco_del_Ponte or http://www.comune.pisa.it/pdf/giugno-pisano2010.pdf

In summer with hot cooking can be unpleasant, so we must resort to cold dishes. The Tuscan panzanella is a typical summer dish, which comes from tradition. With a little 'stale bread and fresh vegetables on a dish can be prepared fresh and tasty.

Serves 4:

homemade Tuscan bread (preferably stale)
2 tomatoes
1 red onion
1 cucumber
2 stalks celery
Basil
Extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper

Put the slices of bread in a bowl with water and allow to soften for 20 minutes after the squeeze and crumble into a large bowl. Take the onion into thin slices (if you hold it to soak for 20 minutes in water and vinegar lose acidity), celery and cucumber and tomatoes in pieces not too large. Add the vegetables to bread and mix well with hands to make spice. Add oil, salt and basil and stir. The panzanella be kept in refrigerator at least an hour before enjoying.

On June 17 we celebrate the patron saint, San Ranieri (whose remains can be seen in the Cathedral).

The festivities, which really began with the Luminara of 16 / 6, are held in the afternoon along the Arno, with the traditional parade in costumes of the four districts (San Martin, San Antonio, San Francesco and Santa Maria).

After the parade the 4 districts will compete in the waters of our river Arno in a Palio Marinaro that seems to date from the thirteenth century.

The boats used are inspired by "Stefaniane frigates" of the Medici of the Knights of St. Stephen.

Wins the challenge that the helmsman can take the Palio blue at the top of a flagpole placed in water 10 meters high.

For more details please visit: http://www.giugnopisano.com/palio-san-ranieri-pisa.html