Le Grotte del Funaro In Orvieto

This is one of the best restaurants in the Umbria/Tuscany region. We eat there about once a month and have never been disappointed. It is in an ancient Etruscan grotto. You can even watch them make your homemade pasta. I highly recommend this great place.

Great food, friendly and helpful staff. Good value for money. Highly recommended

This restaurant made my top five places to eat. The staff made me feel at ease, the environment was very welcoming but the food and wine were truly unsurpassed. The excellent pizza and pasta I recommend it to all those who want to eat well and spend the right price.

An interesting place, in a historical basement... but the whole impression is spoiled by the unpleasant young waitresses...

After travelling for several weeks this restaurant had some of the best meals we’ve had. The pork was so good! Atmosphere is incredible being underground in a cave.

Orvieto is a small town built on tuff. There are more than 1,000 caves here, which in ancient times were used as olive oil factories for lamps, tombs, and warehouses. Nowadays, there are many restaurants that make use of this cave. This is one of them, and it gives off a nice cave atmosphere. The specialty of this city is pasta called umbrichetta🍝 A chewy, thick pasta that resembles udon noodles made by mixing flour with water. You can't see it very often in other cities, so please give it a try.

Characteristic restaurant in a tuff. Very good food. Characteristic environment. Advised.

Fabulous place, it looks like it came out of an ancient story, a restaurant inside a cave!

This hidden gem is actually the very first restaurant that you encounter in the old medieval section of Orvieto as you come off the lift from the Campo Della Fiera parking lot/garage and start heading into town. You could easily miss it if not looking for it! Built in the ancient Estruscan caves upon which the city of Orvieto was built, this restaurant features the best of local cuisine. Orvieto is known for its wild game (esp. boar) and for its unique pasta variant, ombrichelli, a hand-rolled thick spaghetti-like pasta. I started with the Tagliatelle al ragu di agnello (tagliatelle pasta with a lamb ragu) that was heavenly, and followed that with the Cinghiale al Bujone, which is cubed pieces of wild boar in s savory sauce, cooked to perfection. Other family members had the Ombrichelli cacio e pepe con rigotta (ombrichelli in a cracked black pepper and cheese sauce) and the Ombrichelli al tartufo (ombrichelli in a black truffle sauce). For the second course my wife ordered the Filetto di manzo al tartufo, which is a thin sliced steak filet drizzled with truffle oil. It was so good that we went back a second night and tried other dishes! My recommendation: Order the featured local specialties, in this case the Ombrichelli and the boar or lamb! Warning: The truffle oil used is STRONG! If you don't absolutely love truffle, it could be overwhelming. Although they take credit cards, it's FAR better to pay in cash (euros). Credit card merchants charge 2-3 times the processing fees in Italy than they do in America, and this takes a HUGE bite out of the profits of small merchants.

Prenotiamo via mail con largo anticipo per 4 persone e, quando arriviamo, troviamo riservato per noi un tavolo da 2. Ci viene prontamente assegnato un nuovo tavolo consono, ma in una posizione un po' sfavorevole. Il cibo è nella media, tranne il maialino (che in teoria sarebbe la pietanza di punta) dalla cottura completamente sbagliata. Certo una sala scavata nel tufo non è cosa di tutti i giorni, ma decisamente non basta...