Silene

A one-Michelin-star restaurant tucked into a tiny village on the slopes of Monte Amiata, where the kitchen garden doubles as the menu and the chef's own olive oil from Seggiano finishes nearly everything. The cooking is deeply Tuscan, precise without being fussy, and the room is the kind of elegant-but-relaxed that makes you forget you drove an hour to get here. Bread arrives as a statement of intent.

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