Best Tasting Menus in Castelnuovo Berardenga
Castelnuovo Berardenga's tasting menus include blind sequences, minimalist Tuscan cooking and Mediterranean influences. Il Poggio Rosso and Contrada in Castelnuovo Berardenga pair tasting and à la carte menus with extensive wine lists and sommelier-led service. L'Asinello in Villa a Sesta offers the same menu formats with restrained Tuscan cuisine in a converted stable. Il Visibilio in Pievasciata serves a blind tasting menu spanning meat, fish and vegetables, accompanied by wine pairings.
Il Convito di Curina in Castelnuovo Berardenga offers tasting menus; its wine list leans toward small regional producers and independent Champagne houses. La Bottega del 30 in Villa a Sesta offers seasonal Tuscan cooking, tasting and à la carte menus, and an extensive wine list.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Borgo San Felice Resort
Deep wine list
Borgo San Felice Resort occupies an 11th-century hamlet deep in the Chianti Classico zone near Castelnuovo Berardenga, combining a wine-producing estate with a Michelin-starred restaurant under Chef Stelios Sakalis. Rated 4.6/5 by EP Club members and ranked #362 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Europe list, it represents a specific strain of Tuscan hospitality where the land, the cellar, and the kitchen operate as a single system.
Contrada
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Set within a restored hamlet outside Castelnuovo Berardenga, Contrada holds a Michelin star (2024) and pitches itself squarely at the intersection of Tuscan produce and contemporary technique. Chef Davide Canella runs a dual-format menu, tasting and à la carte, built around meat-led dishes with selective fish appearances. The €€€ pricing sits a tier below the commune's €€€€ Michelin peers, making it the area's most accessible starred option.
Il Convito di Curina
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised dining room in the Chianti Senese countryside, Il Convito di Curina serves traditional Tuscan cuisine alongside a wine list weighted toward small regional producers and independent champagne houses. The rustic stone setting gives way to a panoramic terrace when weather permits. At the €€ price point, it occupies a distinct position among Castelnuovo Berardenga's restaurant options.
Il Poggio Rosso
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Set within Borgo San Felice, a medieval hamlet in the Sienese hills, Il Poggio Rosso holds a Michelin star under Chef Stelios Sakalis, whose training across France, England, and Italy informs a creative menu that reads Tuscan in its foundations but wider in its reach. At the €€€€ tier, it sits at the summit of Castelnuovo Berardenga's dining options and competes with Siena's leading creative tables.
Il Visibilio
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant inside The Club House hotel, Il Visibilio sits at the end of a dirt track in the hills above Pievasciata, serving a single blind tasting menu developed through a collaboration between Tuscan chef Daniele Canella and two-Michelin-starred Giuseppe Iannotti of Krèsios. The format mirrors Iannotti's Campanian model: no choices, no printed menu, just a long sequence of technical cooking that moves freely between meat, fish, and vegetables.
L'Asinello
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred address in the Chianti countryside, L'Asinello occupies a converted stable at the edge of Castelnuovo Berardenga, where a menu built on restraint and precise, minimal ingredients reads as a quiet argument for what traditional Tuscan cooking can still achieve. Dinner service runs Tuesday through Saturday from 7:30 PM, with Sunday lunch also available. The garden, maintained by the chef himself, becomes the heart of the experience in summer.
La Bottega del 30
In the hamlet of Villa a Sesta, La Bottega del 30 has spent decades making a case for restraint-led Tuscan cooking at its most honest. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, the restaurant works from stone-walled surroundings and a kitchen committed to traditional technique, slow-cooked pork liver stored in lard with fennel, lukewarm on Tuscan green beans, with French-rooted sensibility shaping every plate.
Planning tasting menus in Castelnuovo Berardenga
- Which tasting-menu room is fully blind?
- Il Visibilio in Pievasciata is the fully blind one. It offers a single tasting menu only, with no choices and no printed menu, so the whole meal is built around one sequence. The wine programme is sommelier-led.
- Which starred tasting-menu restaurants also offer more than one format?
- Il Poggio Rosso in Castelnuovo Berardenga, L'Asinello in Villa a Sesta, and Contrada in Castelnuovo Berardenga offer tasting menus alongside à la carte dining. Contrada also offers a prix fixe format, with seasonal Tuscan cooking by Chef Davide Canella.
- Where are the tasting menus concentrated geographically?
- Castelnuovo Berardenga has Il Poggio Rosso, Contrada and Il Convito di Curina; Villa a Sesta has L'Asinello and La Bottega del 30; Pievasciata has Il Visibilio. The category also includes tasting-menu dining at Borgo San Felice Resort in Chianti.
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