La Chicca B&B Siena

Having retained its old shop counter and glass - fronted display cabinets, this former grocer’s shop is perfect for anyone in search of old - world charm. However, the cuisine is the real draw with its focus on quality of the highest level. Wine buffs can ask to visit the wine cellar nearby, housed in a tunnel of Etruscan origin. Simpler dining room on the first floor.

Just a short distance from Campo, at the boundary of the Leocorno contrada, the restaurant settles at the foot of a medieval tower: a thirteenth-century structure that once served as an armoury and which today, following a careful restoration, receives its guests in surroundings enriched by design furnishings from the 1950s and 1970s. It is here that the gastronomic offering of the Gallo Nero takes shape, with a cuisine that celebrates the Sienese tradition through meat dishes firmly rooted in the territory, set alongside vegetable creations and forays towards the sea. The cellar, nestled with

A fine-dining restaurant which changed tack in 2020, reducing its number of tables to just ten and embracing a sustainable approach to its cuisine. It now prioritises local suppliers and certified organic and environmentally friendly ingredients, while the restaurant’s own kitchen garden, featuring produce grown in line with biodynamic techniques, provides some of the best seasonal ingredients used in the dishes here.