La Dolce Vita

A trattoria inside the walls of Lucca. Tortelli rolled this morning, buccellato from the oven, and wine from the hills you can see from the tower.

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A trattoria inside the walls.

Six nights a week we cook the food of this city: tortelli, farro, buccellato, and the wine of the hills you can see from the tower.

The dining room at La Dolce Vita, lit by candles before service
The room seats forty-four. The candles are lit one at a time, and dinner runs until the last table leaves.
Opened
1985
Seats
44
From the wall
160 m
Dinner from
17:00
Tortelli,
Tortelli lucchesi finished with butter and shaved truffle
made this morning.

Rolled by hand at two o'clock, filled with ricotta and herbs, finished with butter the colour of the hills at sunset.

Before you eat, walk. The whole of Lucca is inside four kilometres of wall, and we are at the middle of it.

Via Fillungo, Lucca, in the late afternoon
Via Fillungo, four minutes from the door.
The Guinigi tower rising over the roofs of Lucca
The Guinigi tower, and the hills the wine comes from.
Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in Lucca at night, wet cobbles and warm windows
Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, at the hour we close.

One evening, hour by hour.

Two o'clock

The pasta is rolled by hand. Tortelli first, this city's own shape.

Pasta being made in the kitchen

Five o'clock

The first tables. The candles are lit one at a time, never all at once.

A spread of dishes set on a dark table

Seven o'clock

The pass fills. Every plate is looked at before it leaves the kitchen.

A dish being plated with tweezers

Eight o'clock

The room at its loudest and happiest. Two pans on the fire at once.

The kitchen during a busy service

Nine o'clock

Something red from the hills, by the glass or the bottle. Ask and we will pour you the right one.

A glass of red wine on a table by candlelight

Ten o'clock

Tiramisu and espresso, and nobody in any hurry to leave.

Tiramisu served on a slate plate

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Via Fillungo 42
55100 Lucca, Tuscany

Tuesday – Sunday
17:00 – 22:00
Monday
Closed
Tonight
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