Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Cortona.
Accolades in Cortona
Citywide, our guide counts one Michelin-starred restaurant and four exceptional wine programs. The kitchens below serve tasting menus, and each holds an awarded list or an exceptional program.
Il Falconiere, in San Martino, holds a Michelin 1 Star (2026) and a Relais Chateaux Award (2026). Chef Silvia Regi Baracchi cooks Tuscan tasting menus and a la carte dishes from the Baracchi estate, including Chianina beef, pici pasta, and estate-produced wine and olive oil. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive list.
Ristorante Gli Affreschi, in Historic Centre, Cortona, serves contemporary Tuscan fine dining, with a tasting menu and a la carte, among Renaissance frescoes in a historic monastery refectory. Chef Ricci leads the kitchen. The curated wine list is extensive and holds a World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 2-Star (2025) and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence (2026).
Enoteca Meucci, in Borgo Riccio, holds a Michelin Plate (2026) and runs a modern Tuscan tasting menu in a restored farmhouse. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive shop of over 2000 labels. A ground-floor wine bar stocks local produce, and the first floor is the restaurant.
Eight wineries appear in our guide, and each carries a Falstaff award. The three estates below specialize in Syrah from vineyards on hills.
Fabrizio Dionisio, in Il Castagno / Ossaia hillside, produces low-yield Cortona DOC Syrah only from estate vineyards and holds a Falstaff Winery - Listed award (2026). The vineyards cover 15 hectares and produce about 50,000 bottles a year. Soils are clay, sand and silt.
Tenuta Montecchiesi - Dal Cero, in Montecchio, is a family-run Syrah estate with a Falstaff Winery - Listed award (2026). The Dal Cero family has owned it since 1980. The estate has clay-rich hillside soils, altitude, breezes and alberello bush training, with the Klanis vineyard on the hilltop. The range includes Klanis, Versý in rosé, Camelý and Miraly.
Baldetti, in Pietraia, is a family-run Cortona Syrah specialist with a Falstaff Winery - Listed award (2026) and flagship Cortona DOC Syrah Crano. The setting is sandstone hills with Lake Trasimeno's climatic influence, and a modern cellar was completed in 2012. Visits are guided vineyard and cellar tours with tastings and estate views.
Our guide counts one Michelin-starred restaurant in Cortona and one Michelin star in total. Il Falconiere, in San Martino, has held one star in 2024, 2025 and 2026. It is the city’s only starred restaurant in our guide and the clearest reference point for Michelin-level dining.
Ristorante Gli Affreschi, in Historic Centre, Cortona, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence (2026). The wine program at Ristorante Gli Affreschi, in Historic Centre, Cortona, is curated, and the list is extensive, served with contemporary Tuscan fine dining on a tasting menu and a la carte.
Tasting menus in our guide are served at Il Falconiere in San Martino, Ristorante Gli Affreschi in Historic Centre, Cortona, Enoteca Meucci in Borgo Riccio, and Antica Casina di Caccia in Piazzano / Villa di Piazzano.
Exceptional wine programs in our guide are in San Martino, Cortona Centro, Borgo Riccio and Piazzano / Villa di Piazzano. Il Falconiere, in San Martino, Osteria del Teatro, in Cortona Centro, Enoteca Meucci, in Borgo Riccio, and Antica Casina di Caccia, in Piazzano / Villa di Piazzano, hold those programs.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Cortona.
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A one-Michelin-starred restaurant on the Baracchi estate outside Cortona, Il Falconiere earns its recognition through deep-rooted Tuscan cooking: Chianina beef, pici pasta, and estate-produced wine and olive oil form the backbone of a menu shaped by the surrounding farmland. Chef Silvia Regi Baracchi leads a kitchen where the distance between field and plate is measured in footsteps rather than supply chains.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for consecutive years, La Bucaccia on Via Ghibellina is one of Cortona's most consistent addresses for Aretine Tuscan cooking. A handful of tables on the main street and two rustic interior rooms set the scene, with chef Agostina in the kitchen and an owner whose hospitality defines the pace of the meal. The price point sits at the accessible end of Cortona's dining range.
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Ristorante Gli Affreschi holds a 2-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Dining Awards, placing it among a select tier of recognised restaurants in Cortona, Tuscany. Located on Via del Salvatore, the restaurant operates within a town defined by medieval architecture and centuries of Tuscan agricultural tradition. For travellers seeking accredited dining in the Val di Chiana, Gli Affreschi is a clear reference point.
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A restored farmhouse at the foot of Cortona, Enoteca Meucci holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and operates across two distinct formats: a ground-floor wine bar stocked with local produce, and a first-floor restaurant running a seasonal Tuscan menu. The outdoor terrace makes it a strong warm-weather destination in the Val di Chiana.
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A former family mill on the outskirts of Cortona, Locanda del Molino holds a Michelin Plate for its kitchen's commitment to direct Tuscan cooking. The female chef works a menu of regional specialities — fried rabbit, nettle and ricotta gnudi in fresh tomato sauce — at mid-range prices that sit comfortably within the €€ bracket. Guestrooms are available for those who want to extend the stay into the surrounding countryside.
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Osteria del Teatro belongs to Cortona’s more polished Tuscan dining tier: local-seasonal cooking, a theatrical set of rooms, and a Michelin Plate citation rather than rustic trattoria looseness. The appeal is the way it frames regional ingredients inside a formal historic room without abandoning the rhythms of an osteria.
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Antica Casina di Caccia belongs to the rural Cortona-Umbria border rhythm rather than the denser old-town restaurant circuit. With little public detail on awards, pricing, chef, or format, the useful way to read it is through setting: a countryside address near Lake Trasimeno where ingredient origin, seasonal Tuscan-Umbrian cooking, and car-based planning matter more than urban convenience.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Cortona.
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A 15th-century monastery converted into a 40-room luxury boutique hotel in 2019, Monastero di Cortona sits on Cortona's hilltop with original frescoes, vaulted ceilings, and a sun-drenched terrace pool. Rooms from $369 per night range from beamed attic retreats to suites with private terraces. The rooftop garden and Tuscan negroni program make it a compelling base for the Val di Chiana.
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Compared to Cortona's larger monastery conversions and wine-estate hotels, Villa di Piazzano operates at smaller scale, with Small Luxury Hotels of the World membership (2025) placing it in a curated tier of independently spirited properties. Its position between Cortona and Lake Trasimeno gives guests proximity to both the hilltop town's Etruscan heritage and the lake's quieter agricultural edges — a geography few properties in this corridor can match.
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A seventeenth-century Tuscan manor on a hill above Cortona, Relais Il Falconiere has been held by the Baracchi family since 1860 and now operates as a wine-producing Relais & Chateaux property with a Michelin-starred restaurant. Thirty rooms are distributed across the villa, a chapel annex, and a cottage, priced from US$398 per night, with a full-service spa and an estate vineyard that feeds directly into the table.
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A seventeenth-century estate on the hills above Cortona, La Corte Dei Papi offers rooms and suites across a family-owned property with private spa options, a restaurant focused on traditional Tuscan cooking, and an outdoor pool. Experiences including Ferrari tours, cooking classes, and hot air balloon rides place it firmly in the activity-rich tier of Tuscan agriturismo.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Cortona.
Cortona
Selected entries from the current guide for Cortona.
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Baldetti gives Cortona’s Syrah story a grounded, family-run expression: sandstone hills, Lake Trasimeno’s climatic influence, and a modern cellar completed in 2012. The visit is strongest for travelers who want vineyard and cellar context rather than a casual tasting-room drop-in, with guided tastings, estate views, and a portfolio that places Cortona DOC Syrah at the center.
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Cantina Canaio is a small family-run Cortona DOC winery focused on Syrah and Merlot, with tastings shaped around vineyard context rather than cellar spectacle. The appeal is the way Cortona’s hills, altitude, and international varieties meet in a compact farmhouse setting where wine, olive oil, and Tuscan food sit in the same agricultural frame.
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Dublette Santa Cristina sits in Cortona’s Tuscan wine orbit, where Sangiovese, still reds, and the Valdichiana’s warm-cool rhythm matter more than cellar theatrics. Its Antinori association and 1946 date give it historical weight, while the draw is a land-led reading of approachable Tuscan red wine rather than a high-production hospitality spectacle.
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Fabrizio Dionisio is a small Cortona estate for drinkers who want Tuscany through Syrah rather than the usual Sangiovese lens. The draw is terroir-led tasting: estate vineyards, hillside air, clay-sand-silt soils, and a boutique scale of 15 hectares producing about 50,000 bottles annually.
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Le Fontanelle - Pasini Roberta is a small family-run winery in Cortona’s countryside, framed by vineyards and olive groves rather than large-scale cellar-door theatre. The estate works with Sangiovese, Syrah, Merlot and Trebbiano, with visits shaped around a quiet Tuscan rural setting and a compact producer-led scale.
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Tenimenti d’Alessandro is a Cortona wine estate where the modern local story turns on Syrah and Viognier rather than the more familiar Sangiovese script. Founded in 1967 and certified organic since 2016, it folds vineyard, tasting, Creta Osteria and Borgo Syrah into a single countryside hospitality model.
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Tenuta Angelici fits the quieter side of Cortona wine travel: a small-production Cortona DOC Syrah estate folded into a restored 1800s farmhouse villa with olive grove, vineyard, woods, pool, sauna, and countryside views. The draw is less a formal cellar-door circuit than a private rural stay where the wine identity, estate grounds, and Tuscan agriturismo format sit in the same frame.
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Tenuta Montecchiesi - Dal Cero is a Cortona wine estate where Syrah carries the argument: clay-rich hillside soils, altitude, breezes and bush-trained vines shape a portfolio built around structure rather than spectacle. The Dal Cero family has owned the estate since 1980, and the emphasis remains agricultural, quiet and terroir-led, with Klanis, Versý in rosé, Camelý and Miraly framing the range.
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