Restaurants & café

Pizzeria Spaghetteria Da Michele
Not the place to come if you're famished as one busy Friday night we waited over an hour for our pizza that, although wonderful in a way that only the extra thin-crusted Tuscan pizza can be, was tainted by the amount of wine we had drunk while waiting. Still, if you want a quiet night, check it out. Ridiculously cheap at some five Euros's, their pizza will not let you down.
Viale Xi Febbraio, 4
53017 Radda In Chianti (SI), Italy
Tel: +39 0577 738784
Tel: +39 0577 738491

Ristorante Vignale
A ten minutes walk from Vercenni, this restaurant is 200 metres from the hotel on the right hand side as you get to Radda and is situated on the first floor of an old mill. Renowned Chef Franco Sabatini specialises in dishes prepared from locally grown seasonal ingredients and offers the area's best wine, including their own Fattoria Vignale. Dishes include Tuscan barley and chickpea soup, ricotta cheese and onion flan, spicy red spaghetti, and garlic breast of duck with vinegar, honey and rosemary. A great location for that special dinner.
Closed Thursdays
Via XX settembre 23, Radda in Chianti (Si) -
Tel/Fax: (+39) 0577 738094
vignale@vignale.it

Ristorante Badia a Coltibuono
An admirable eatery managed by esteemed chef, Guido Stucchi the son of renowned food writer Lorenza di Medici. The restaurant serves all manner of essential Tuscan food and is part of the illustrious Badia Di Coltibuono winery. Set in the grounds of a magisterial 11th century monastery, the vineyard produces some of the area's finest wine and the restaurant produces magnificent food, while each Sunday during the summer local jazz bands take to the stage.
LOC. Badia a Coltibuono
530 13, Gaiole in Chianti
Tel: (+39) 0577 749 031
www.badia-a-coltibuono.com

Sfisio di Bianchi's
This pavement, family-run restaurant that started out many years ago as a bakery is now run by the lovely Fernanda. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or just grab a cup of the finest coffee and an exquisite cake. It is a down-to-earth inexpensive eatery that offers much finer food than many of its more expensive counterparts. A four course dinner washed down with a few carafes of the house wine will cost about 80 Euros for two.
Via Ricasoli 44/46, Gaiole in Chianti
Tel: +39 0577 749501

Ristorante Carloni
Specializing in the bistecca Fiorentina, this was once little more than a workers' café but has since developed a few airs and graces, though not enough to detract from the food or the atmosphere. Tucked away in the back of Gaiole, it is hard to find, but the wine list is excellent and some would say the steak is the best in the area.
Via Giacomo Puccini 24, in Gaiole
Tel: +39 0577 749549

San Donato, Poggio
Just 10 minutes drive from Vercenni through Radda, this magnificent yet reasonably priced restaurant serves not only the finest food, including the characteristic but incredible bistecca Fiorentina, a fine porcini risotto and an incredible truffle tagliatelle, but also proffers a splendid view of the valleys below that adds a certain edge to your meal. We sat outside for lunch on a table for ten in late September, drank the fantastic wine (mostly drawn from the vines of the surrounding hillside) and afterwards looked out over the hills, sipping digestivos in a post-prandial haze. At that moment, we felt life could not have been better.

Da Antonio
This restaurant specializes in fish and although a little pricey is very good. The owner rises each morning at 2am and drives to the sea to catch his fish and what he's caught is what is on the menu. A truly world class restaurant, it is found in front of the theatre of Castelnuovo and is about 30 minutes drive from Vercenni.
Via Fiorita, 38
Castelnuovo Berardenga (SI) -53019
Tel: +39 0577 355321


Coffee Shops near Vercenni

Café Sandy
This place lies at the top of the hill as you approach Rada from Siena. A fine local café, it not only has Wi-fi internet and a brace of computers at your disposal but also serves great coffee, wonderful cakes and excellent home-made ice cream that is famed throughout the region.

Bar Danté
A friendly, family run bar and café with a great selection local wines and other Italian drinks. You can also hire mopeds, bicycles and cars here. They serve excellent, simple Tuscan cuisine, great coffee, local cakes and ice-cream. Sit in dappled light under the vines with a glass of Proseco and watch the town go by!