农业庄园 酒店 Cascina Cipressa

In its new home in Piazza del Duomo, in beautiful San Miniato, in the hands of chef Gilberto Rossi Pepenero continues to serve cuisine that showcases the best ingredients (both meat and fish) from this bountiful region, with delicacies such as excellent truffles featuring on the menu throughout the year. Prepared with a light and modern touch, meals are served in a spacious dining room where the many windows offer glimpses of the town centre.

As its name suggests, this restaurant was used as a pharmacy until the late 1970s. In 2010, it was taken over by owner-chef Juri who now runs his own restaurant here, serving Tuscan-inspired cuisine made using local ingredients and recipes which he reinterprets with a light touch. Full of flavour, dishes include highlights such as baked marrow and Tuscan Chianti beef stew.

This restaurant is an authentic surprise: the seemingly simple and unassuming names of the dishes conceal an extraordinary technique, designed to bring out the flavours of exceptional seafood; it is the creativity, at times sheer genius, that takes us by surprise. The sometimes overused concept of “cooking with produce”??????? reaches its fullest expression here: this is seafood as you have rarely tasted it, with aromas that waft through a refined dining room in shades of sea and sand. Gianfranco Pascucci is the architect of this emotional experience, while Vanessa Melis conveys his message an