Book a table — out on the square or in the room inside. If you’re staying with us, 10% off dinner.

The Wine Bistrot tables on the square of the Castle of Monteriggioni

Wine Bistrot · since 2025

Wine Bistrot on the square of Monteriggioni

Name: Rooms and Wine Bistrot
Address: Piazza Dante Alighieri 15, Monteriggioni, SI, 53035, IT
Telephone: +39 351 915 4263
Price range: €€

You eat on the square,
inside the castle

A short menu, simple and seasonal. Organic wines, ours and our friends’. Tables out on the square, where you never hear a car go past, and a small room inside for the rainy days.

The kitchen

Simple, good,
and in season

A few dishes, changing with the season. There is no long menu and nothing sitting in a fridge waiting: we cook what is good right now, and when it runs out, it’s gone. Pumpkin and hazelnuts in autumn, tomatoes that taste of sun in summer, pecorino that changes with the months it has aged.

The same goes if you eat differently. The vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes are not a last-minute fallback: they are worked out alongside the others, from the same ingredients and with the same care.

VegetarianVeganGluten freeSeasonal

Dishes on the tables out on the square, with a bottle of our wine

Where you eat

Two spaces,
depending on the weather

When the sun is out you sit outside, on the square. When it rains or turns cold everyone moves indoors, into the old rooms of the house. They are two different ways of spending the same evening.

Tables under the parasols on the castle square

Outside, on the square

The tables sit on the castle square, facing the church and the walls: you eat inside Monteriggioni, not in front of it. And inside the walls you never hear a car go past: the background is other people’s voices and the swifts. In summer, about one evening a week, the square turns into a stage — concerts and theatre, always over by midnight. In the afternoon there is shade under the parasols; at sunset the stone catches fire; in the evening you have dinner by candlelight as the village empties around you.

The tables on the square, under the Rooms sign

Two glasses of red wine carried out to the tables

The room inside, with stone walls, beams and Palio posters

Inside, when it rains

A small room carved out of the oldest part of the house: bare stone, beams, Palio posters on the walls and only a handful of tables. It is the space for cold days and rainy evenings — and for anyone who would simply rather eat indoors, in low light.

The room inside, full of guests at dinner

The stone arch of the room, with a Palio poster

A few dishes

What you might
find

The menu moves with the season and with the market, so these are examples, not promises. The blackboard at the door tells you what there is today — and the current menu is always online.

Menu & bookings

Pinsa with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and basil — La SempliciottaTall, crisp pinsa with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and basil

Vegetarian Tuscan plate with cheeses, vegetables and crostini — Piattino toscano vegPecorini at different ages, oil-cured vegetables and warm crostini

Timballo on a purée, served at the table — Il TimballoThe hot dish of the day, off the blackboard

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The sweet-and-sour pinsa is a mix of autumn flavours: the hazelnuts and sun-dried tomatoes work beautifully with the pumpkin cream.

Nadia · Tripadvisor, October 2025

To drink

Our own wine,
and our friends’

The wines are ours, from Tenuta di Montechiaro, and those of friends of the family. All of them from small, organic, family-run estates, well outside the supermarket circuit. If a bottle wins you over, take it home: at the counter you can drink it and buy it.

Our own wines

The Chianti Colli Senesi, dark and direct; the Riserva, longer and more serious; the whites; and at the end the Vinsanto, sweet without being cloying, for the cantucci. All organic, all from the family estate.

Craft beer

A real passion. Our house beer is La Stecciaia, an organic farmhouse brewery in the Crete Senesi: they grow the grain themselves, and the beers are unfiltered and unpasteurised. Alongside it, other local breweries, changed often: ask what’s on tap today.

Gin and cocktails

The other passion of the house: six Tuscan gins on the counter — Arcipelago, I’ Ginne from the Casentino, Elektro with saffron, Gin Iris, GUD and the alcohol-free Sabatini 0.0. Neat or in cocktails, with Papini tonic.

Soft drinks

The Papini sodas, from San Quirico d’Orcia, since 1900: spuma, gassosa, cedrata, chinotto and the tonic in our gin and tonics. People who don’t drink alcohol deserve something properly made too.

A bottle of organic wine beside the Organic Wine blackboard

Guests at the table in the bistrot’s inside room

Our suppliers

We buy from people
we know by name

Every one of our suppliers is a family business from around here: we know the people who bring us the bread, the meat, the cheese and the vegetables, and we know where they work. It isn’t romanticism — it’s simply the easiest way we have found to actually know what we are serving.

Everything else follows from that: local, seasonal and as organic as we can get, a plastic-free service, green energy and people from the village.

Local sourcingFamily businessesPlastic freeGreen energy

Practical bits

Menu, tables
and other useful things

Today’s menu

It changes often, so we don’t print it here. The current one lives on the booking page: open the menu.

When we’re open

Our hours shift with the season, which is why we don’t print them: the reliable ones are always on Google, and the booking form only offers times that are genuinely free.

Booking a table

Online through Tableo, by phone, or on WhatsApp at +39 351 915 4263. If you’re staying with us, you can also book during online check-in.

For our guests

10% off dinner and half-price afternoon tastings, for anyone staying in our rooms.

In the afternoon

Outside mealtimes you can still come for a glass, a tasting or an aperitivo at the tables on the square.

Private events

We put on dinners and events for groups of up to 30–40 people, indoors or out on the square. Write to us and we’ll work it out.

A table on the square?

In summer the outdoor tables go early, especially for dinner. Worth booking — and if you’re staying with us, don’t forget the discount.

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