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.
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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.
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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.
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4. Da Badò, Volterra
This locals’ restaurant sticks to its guns: Volterran dishes made only with ingredients available at market that day.
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5. Etruria, Volterra
The one-time best place in town has gone a bit touristy, but the Tuscan dishes are tasty as ever.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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9. II Vecchio Mulino, Saline di Volterra
Try the hearty cinghiale alla Volterrana (wild boar with black olives) in this 19th-century converted mill.
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10. Le Terrazze, San Gimignano
A fine restaurant with legendary cuisine and a stupendous setting in the Hotel Cisterna.
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