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Restaurants in Siena
Where to eat in Siena: hand-rolled pici, pecorino from the crete, panforte, and the three wines of the surrounding hills.
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The catalogue currently covers Pistoia and Prato, and grows one province at a time. This town may also be listed under a different name: try searching for it.
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From the Bitebooker blog
We have not written about this town yet. In the meantime: how bookings, requests and reviews work.
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Instant confirmation or on request: what actually changes
On the same page, two restaurants can behave in two different ways. The difference isn’t cosmetic: it’s whether the table is yours or not.
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Where the listings come from, and why they’re sometimes wrong
No restaurateur asked to be here. That’s why the catalogue is broad, and it’s also why it goes stale.
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«All verified»: what it means, and what it doesn’t
Here a review is tied to a meal that took place. It is an inconvenient rule — it shuts a lot of people out — and everything that «all verified» can promise lives inside it.
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Eating in Siena
Siena eats what the crete and the Chianti hills put around it, with a kitchen of few things done well.
The pasta
Pici are fat spaghetti rolled by hand one at a time, without egg. They are dressed all'aglione — with the sweet, oversized garlic of the Valdichiana — or with duck ragù, or with fried breadcrumbs.
The rest of the table
- Pecorino Toscano DOP and the pecorinos of the Siena crete, eaten here at several stages of ageing;
- Finocchiona IGP, the salami made with wild fennel;
- Cinta Senese DOP, the black woodland pig, recognisable by its white band.
The sweets, which are medieval
Panforte, ricciarelli and cavallucci were not invented for Christmas: they are spice and honey sweets this city has made for centuries, and the historic pastry shops have them all year.
In the glass
The province of Siena holds Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Nobile di Montepulciano and Vernaccia di San Gimignano: four denominations within an hour.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
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For when dinner is a few kilometres away.