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Top 10 Where to Eat

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1. Dorandò, San Gimignano

Crisp tablecloths and crisp service are coupled with fascinating menus explaining the medieval or Etruscan origins of each finely prepared dish.
2. Osteria delle Catene, San Gimignano

Dine in a softly lit brick-barreled vault. Like any good osteria, this one serves great platters of mixed cheeses and cured meats, along with a good selection of wines.
3. La Mangiatoia, San Gimignano

The more imaginative dishes at “The Trough” are excellent (though the standard fare seems perfunctorily prepared). Classical music adds to the lively atmosphere.
4. Da Badò, Volterra

This locals’ restaurant sticks to its guns: Volterran dishes made only with ingredients available at market that day.
5. Etruria, Volterra

The one-time best place in town has gone a bit touristy, but the Tuscan dishes are tasty as ever.
6. Osteria da Tronca, Massa Marittima

A family-run trattoria in a room with stone walls and hewn beams. This is Tuscan cooking the way Grandma used to make it (Grandma, incidentally, is in the kitchen).
7. Taverna del Vecchio Borgo, Massa Marittima

Suckling pigs roast on spits in the open fireplace; low stone vaults add to the atmosphere. Try the tris di primi sampler plate of three first courses.
8. Arnolfo, Colle di Val d’Elsa

Sample refined cooking in a 15th-century palazzo. Sample, too, the enormous wine cellar, which ranges from little-known local labels to grand foreign wines.
9. II Vecchio Mulino, Saline di Volterra

Try the hearty cinghiale alla Volterrana (wild boar with black olives) in this 19th-century converted mill.
10. Le Terrazze, San Gimignano

A fine restaurant with legendary cuisine and a stupendous setting in the Hotel Cisterna.