Local Guidal of Cortona: RESTAURANTS AND NIGHTLIFE

Cortona offers a wide variety of restaurants ranging from Local Tuscan Mamma Cooking to high cuisine and even a Michelin Star restaurant. The historic centre counts a proud number of ca. 30 restaurants. Also in the surrounding area there are many high quality restaurants and pizzerias. Don’t forget to accompany your dinner with a good wine, Cortona it is in central position near to the best Italian wine areas.

Here a list of all restaurants in the historic centre:
Il Cacciatore
Bottega Baracchi
Cortona Bistrot
BeerBone Tuscan Hamburger & Artisan Beer
Tonino
Il Tocco
Sartù
AD Braceria
La Locanda nel Loggiato
Il Gozzoviglio
Il Preludio
Birrificio Cortonese
Fufluns
La Grotta
Pozzo Antico
La Bucaccia
Il Tempero
Nessun Dorma
Pane e Vino
Osteria del Teatro
La Fett’Unta
La Croce del Travaglio
Trattoria Toscana
Trattoria Dardano
Ambrosia
Trattoria Etrusca
El Comanchero
Scara e Beo
Casa Reggiani

NIGHTLIFE
You can enjoy sipping a good glass of wine in one of the many enotecas, bars and caffès which also offer drinks, sitting on stone steps with the best ice cream you have ever tasted, letting your children run around in one of the squares or dancing in the piazza during one of the various evenings in which the piazza turns into your open-air disco.
ICE-CREAM:
Snoopy Ice Cream in Piazza Signorelli
Gelato Ti Amo in Via Benedetti
Dolce Vita in Via Nazionale
ENOTECA:
Enoteca Molesini in Piazza dell Repubblica
Enoteca Enotria in Via Nazionale
Enoteca Cacio Brillo in Piazza Signorelli
CAFFE’ & BARS:
Sottovoce in Piazza della Repubblica
Bottega Baracchi in Via Nazionale
Pasticceria Banchelli in Via Nazionale
Bar 500 in Via Nazionale
Tuscher in Via Nazionale
Caffè La Saletta in Via Nazionale
Caffè degli Artisti in Via Nazionale
Caffè Signorelli in Via Nazionale
Bar delle Mura in Via Guelfa
Bar La Dimora in Via Guelfa
Caffè Vittoria in Piazza Signorelli
Bar La Posta in Piazza Signorelli
Nessun Dorma in Piazza Signorelli
Bar Teatro Signorelli in Piazza Signorelli
Il Granaio in Piazza Signorelli – Cortona

Moving away from the historic centre of Cortona, you can find several places where to enjoy good aperitifs and drinks:
Cristallo Caffè
Bar Menchetti

Also the Lake Trasimeno Area offers a great variety of places for a night out in Umbria:
Bar and pub in Passignano sul Trasimento and Castiglione del Lago (along the coast of the lake)
Darsena
Ciao Ciao Ciao Disco Dancing
Sualzo Disco Beach
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In Cortona town center during the year you can also find a lot of street artists and enjoy with their sings performance.