Dining Out: Orvieto Monastery Style
Orvieto is one of the most picturesque Umbrian hill-towns set high atop a sheer rock like a bride and groom atop a wedding cake. The town is located in the middle of Italy between Florence to the North and Rome to the South. While in Orvieto most of our dining was done at the villa. However, we did have a dining out food adventure worth mentioning. While we found it challenging to find food establishments the first few days of our stay in Umbria, it was hard to miss the looming 12th century Gothic "castle" that was converted into a hotel and restaurant called La Badia . We later learned that this was not a castle, but instead a former monastery. Ecstatic to have found an open restaurant on Sunday, we anxiously booked a reservation for fourteen. Little did we know until later, (queue the dum...dum..dum background music) the language barrier came into play, and the receptionist misunderstood fourTEEN to be four. The hotel still uses old fashioned keys ...