Here is the information folder from the wonderful agriturismo in which we stayed. Apologies I can't isolate just the restaurants but you’ll find the relevant pages easily and some other useful info about Umbria.
We thought their recommendations were absolutely excellent. I’m difficult to please 😊 and typically do tons of research but in the end we mostly ate where they suggested as they were just so good!
Specifically we ate at Turreno and Turan in Perugia (take the mini-metro which is superb. Acres of parking right by the entrance to it); Piazzetta Dell Erbe in Assisi; Il Tipico in Montone (we ate at both their recommendations but Il Tipico is just wonderful and run by the guy who is head of the Olive Oil collective - Montone is a tiny town, no shopping, just walk through the beautiful little streets and enjoy the local atmosphere in the square. Terry Gilliam has a place there and runs the annual film festival. We fell in love with the town). Finally we ate twice at Il Caldaro - it was very near where we were staying but is just gorgeous. Sitting out in the gardens is a lot like the wineries in Stellenbosch if you've ever been. We loved this place. We also ate at La Scalette in Todi which is great - if you are there go to Gelateria Pianegiani. It was the best ice cream of our trip. I can highly recommend the pine-nut flavour.
There are a few places we really wanted to go to on the Casa San Gabriel list but didn't get there for one reason or another. We went to Lake Trasimeno but as we were there during the day, we couldn't go to Rosso di Serra which I think is only open in the evenings. Instead we got the ferry to Maggiore Island and had lunch there. There is a great gelateria in San Feliciano by the lake. Apparently locals come from Perugia to get ice cream there. It's called Polo Nord, although we actually thought the gelato was better in Todi. We also really wanted to go to Simone Corsetti but it was either full or closed whilst we were there, as was the recommended restaurant in Spello so we ate elsewhere. Borgo Mela and Calagrana also look great but may not be as close to where you are staying. Gubbio is also worth a visit. We went to the most unlikely pizza place there. Totally charmless, out of the centre, we were the only people there and they seemed cross we'd even arrived and sat us over the carpark. But we ate the best pizza I've ever had in my life :)
Hope that helps. Have a wonderful time. Asissi can apparently get very busy but it was blissfully quiet when we were there. We had an incredible fortnight.
