Can't come in Umbria and leave without having tasted a wedge of cake to the text, the cake that “foreigners” mistakenly call piadina! It is a specialty of Perugia but widespread throughout the region made with a mixture of only water, flour, salt and yeast, cooked on a particular stone called, precisely, testo.
for stuffing you are spoiled for choice: ham and cheese, sausage and country grass, but also mortadella, tomato and mozzarella, rocket and stracchino and, why not, nutella!
And to taste the Torta al testo in the most authentic context, the right address is the trattoria restaurant "From Faliero" to Montebuono di Magione, known by most as La Maria.
A spartan and familiar environment, where you eat on paper plates in long wooden tables. And in summer it is also possible to eat in the large park adjacent to the structure under pine trees, directly overlooking the banks of the Lake Trasimeno.
From La Maria with less than 10 € it is possible to eat a piece of Torta al testo, a delicious portion of the famous frittini (potato croquettes, supplì, Ascolane olives, mozzarella, vegetables, sea fish and perch fillets) and have a drink.
The excellent rapporto qualitĂ / prezzo has ensured that over the years La Maria has become a reference point for locals and those passing through who want to bring with them an authentic flavor of Umbria.
