The Peninsula's original winery pizza barn, wood-fired margheritas, handmade pasta, and T'Gallant's Pinot Grigio by the carafe.
Known for Wood-Fired Margherita PizzaT'Gallant Pinot Grigio by the CarafeRustic Barn SettingFamily-Friendly Winery Lunch
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Why we’d goLa Baracca is the Peninsula's most reliable easy lunch for a group with mixed tastes, and it has been doing it since before the term winery restaurant existed.
La Baracca is T'Gallant's on-site trattoria and one of the oldest family-friendly winery lunch rooms on the Peninsula. The setting is rustic in the literal sense, it genuinely feels like a Tuscan barn repurposed as a dining room, and the menu is the Italian long-lunch classics: wood-fired margheritas and prosciutto pizzas, a short handmade pasta list, a couple of mains for people who want something more substantial, and the estate's Pinot Grigio by the carafe in quantities large enough to keep the table rolling.
It is not sophisticated cooking. It is the Peninsula's most reliable easy lunch for a group with mixed tastes, and it does not pretend to be anything else. The outdoor area is shaded, the kids have room to run, and the wine comes quickly. La Baracca earns its place precisely by being uncomplicated about what it is.
Always order the Pinot Grigio. Always order too many pizzas. Walk it off in the T'Gallant gardens afterwards.
Worth knowing
If you only do one thing
Order from the wood-fired side of the menu, keep the wine to the estate Pinot Grigio, and plan to walk the gardens before you get in the car.
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