Michelin Star Restaurants in Tuscany: the Two-Star Tables and All 45, by Area (2026 Guide)
Tuscany has 45 Michelin-starred restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026: Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence with three stars, five restaurants with two Michelin stars (Arnolfo, Santa Elisabetta, Campo del Drago, Caino and Il Piccolo Principe), and 39 with one, from the Florentine palazzi to the beach at Forte dei Marmi. Two of the stars are new this year, at Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo in Florence and Sciabola in Forte dei Marmi. Since the guide came out, Castello di Fighine has closed and Paca is moving out of Prato, so this list marks both. Below, every starred table area by area, the ones worth building a day around, and the Tuscany villa rentals closest to them.
The Michelin Guide in Tuscany at a glance
| Three stars | Enoteca Pinchiorri, Florence. |
|---|---|
| Two stars | Arnolfo (Colle di Val d’Elsa), Santa Elisabetta (Florence), Campo del Drago (Montalcino), Caino (Montemerano) and Il Piccolo Principe (Viareggio). |
| One star | 39 restaurants: seven in Florence and Fiesole, seven in Chianti, nine on the Versilia coast and in the hills behind it, and the rest from the Val d’Orcia to the Maremma coast. |
| New in 2026 | Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo (Florence) and Sciabola (Forte dei Marmi). |
| Changed since | Castello di Fighine (San Casciano dei Bagni) closed in spring 2026. Paca left the centre of Prato in July 2026 to reopen on an estate in the Carmignano hills. The chef who won Santa Elisabetta’s two stars moved to Rome in April 2026. |
| Next guide | The MICHELIN Guide Italy 2027 is announced on 12 November 2026 in Piacenza. |
Source: MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026 selection, announced 19 November 2025. Changes since then checked in October 2026.
The only three-star table: Enoteca Pinchiorri, Florence
Three stars · Florence
Enoteca Pinchiorri
Via Ghibellina · dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday
Tuscany’s one three-star restaurant has held all three since 2004, in a seventeenth-century palazzo a few streets from Santa Croce. Riccardo Monco has run the kitchen since 1993 and became a co-owner in 2024; the cooking is Tuscan in its roots and classic in its service, with a tasting menu that moves at the pace of a long evening.
The cellar is the reason many guests book. Michelin calls it “mythological”. It is dinner only, closed Sunday and Monday, and usually closes for part of August: fix this night first, then build the rest of the week around it.
The five two Michelin star restaurants in Tuscany
Tuscany has five restaurants with two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide. Each is a destination in itself, and three of them sit inside an estate or a hotel you could stay a week in. Book them as early as you book the villa.
Two stars · Siena countryside
Arnolfo, Colle di Val d’Elsa
Chef Gaetano Trovato · closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Gaetano Trovato won his first star in 1986 and the second in 1999, and since August 2022 the restaurant has lived in a new building on a hill facing the old town of Colle di Val d’Elsa. The open kitchen is framed in yellow Siena marble, his brother Giovanni runs the cellar, and there are three tasting menus, one of them vegetarian. An easy lunch or dinner from San Gimignano, Siena or the southern edge of Chianti.
Two stars · Florence
Santa Elisabetta, Florence
Hotel Brunelleschi, near the Duomo
A handful of tables on the first floor of the Torre della Pagliazza, which Michelin calls the oldest and only circular tower in Florence, reached through the Hotel Brunelleschi. The cooking has been fish-led and Mediterranean.
Rocco De Santis, the chef who won both stars, moved to Rome in April 2026, and no successor had been confirmed when we checked this guide in October. The November guide will show whether the stars stay; ask us before you plan a night around it.
Two stars · Montalcino
Campo del Drago, Castiglion del Bosco
Chef Matteo Temperini · dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday · seasonal
The restaurant of Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco, a twelfth-century borgo restored by the Ferragamo family on the Brunello hills above the Val d’Orcia. Matteo Temperini has cooked on the estate since 2019; the second star came in the 2025 guide. The kitchen garden is organic and on the estate, the list runs past 700 wines, and the terrace looks over the Montalcino hills. It opens for the season in spring and closes in winter.
Villa Sant’Anna, a five-bedroom villa, stands on the same estate.
Two stars · Maremma
Caino, Montemerano
Chef Valeria Piccini · closed Tuesday and Wednesday
A family restaurant in the stone village of Montemerano, opened in 1971 as a trattoria and turned into one of the great kitchens of Italy by Valeria Piccini. Her son Andrea runs a cellar of about 2,500 labels, and the olive oil on the table is the family’s own. The natural pairing with a villa in the Maremma, and with an afternoon at the thermal pools of Saturnia nearby.
Two stars · Versilia
Il Piccolo Principe, Viareggio
Chef Giuseppe Mancino · Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte
The gourmet restaurant of the Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte, on the seafront of Viareggio. Since 2021 it has served in a ground-floor room facing the promenade rather than on the roof. Giuseppe Mancino, from Campania, won both stars here, and the cellar holds more than 800 labels. For a villa near Lucca, it is the evening to drive to the coast for.
Michelin star restaurants in Florence and Fiesole
Florence has the highest density of stars in Tuscany, which makes a stay in the villas near Florence the easiest way to eat through the list: galleries in the morning, a starred lunch or dinner in the city, the pool by afternoon.
| Restaurant | Where | Why go |
|---|---|---|
| Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo New in 2026 | Hotel La Gemma, between the Duomo and Piazza della Signoria | A small panelled room of about two dozen covers and a tasting menu; resident chef Vittorio De Palma cooks to Paulo Airaudo’s direction. |
| Il Palagio | Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, Borgo Pinti | Paolo Lavezzini’s kitchen in a fifteenth-century palazzo, with summer tables over one of the largest private gardens in Florence. |
| Atto di Vito Mollica | Palazzo Portinari Salviati, Via del Corso | Vito Mollica’s restaurant under sixteenth-century frescoes by Alessandro Allori, steps from the Duomo. Closed Monday and Tuesday. |
| Borgo San Jacopo | Hotel Lungarno, Oltrarno | Directly over the Arno with the Ponte Vecchio in view; ask for one of the two balcony tables. Chef Claudio Mengoni. |
| Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura | Palazzo della Mercanzia, Piazza della Signoria | Takahiko Kondo, seventeen years at Osteria Francescana, cooks Bottura’s playful Italian menu. Open for lunch as well as dinner. |
| Saporium Firenze | Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, San Niccolò | The city outpost of the Borgo Santo Pietro estate: Ariel Hagen cooks with produce from its organic farm near Siena. |
| Serrae Villa Fiesole | Hotel Villa Fiesole, Fiesole | Antonello Sardi’s three tasting menus and a terrace over the domes and rooftops of Florence. Seasonal. |
Michelin star restaurants in Chianti
Between Florence and Siena, most of the starred restaurants sit inside a castle, an abbey estate or a borgo, which makes them as much an outing as a meal. They pair naturally with the villas in Chianti.
| Restaurant | Where | Why go |
|---|---|---|
| Osteria di Passignano | Badia a Passignano, on the Antinori estate | Beside the Vallombrosan abbey, with a garden at the foot of its walls and more than 1,000 wines. Chef Matteo Lorenzini. Closed Sunday. |
| La Torre | COMO Castello del Nero, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa | A twelfth-century castle on its own estate; three tasting menus, one built entirely around vegetables. Closed Sunday and Monday. |
| Il Pievano | Castello di Spaltenna, Gaiole in Chianti | Antonio Iacoviello took over the kitchen in 2025; in summer the tables move into the courtyard of a former fortified monastery. Dinner only; the hotel closes from November to March. |
| Poggio Rosso | Borgo San Felice, Castelnuovo Berardenga | A medieval hamlet turned resort, where Stelios Sakalis has cooked since July 2025 with vegetables from a social-farming garden on the estate. |
| Contrada | Castel Monastero, Castelnuovo Berardenga | Davide Canella’s kitchen in a restored monastery borgo, with summer tables on the castle piazza. Starred since the 2025 guide. |
| L’Asinello | Villa a Sesta, Castelnuovo Berardenga | Chef-owner Senio Venturi in a former stable in a hamlet of a few dozen people, with a garden for summer dinners. Closed Monday and Tuesday. |
| Il Visibilio | Fontanelle Estate, Pievasciata | Twelve seats and one surprise tasting menu; Francesco Ferrettini has led the kitchen since late 2025. |
From Villa Pesa, our ten-bedroom villa at Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, both La Torre and Osteria di Passignano are in the same comune. From Villa Palladia in Radda in Chianti, the starred tables of Gaiole and Castelnuovo Berardenga are a short drive through the vineyards.
Siena, San Gimignano, Montalcino, Montepulciano and the Val d’Orcia
Beyond the two stars of Arnolfo and Campo del Drago, the south of the province has five one-star tables, most of them seasonal: check the dates before you plan an autumn or winter trip around them.
| Restaurant | Where | Why go |
|---|---|---|
| Saporium | Borgo Santo Pietro, Chiusdino | A twelfth-century villa near the roofless abbey of San Galgano; Ariel Hagen cooks mostly from the estate’s own farm. |
| La Sala dei Grappoli | Castello Banfi, Montalcino | Domenico Francone’s dining room, painted with vines, in a medieval castle on the Banfi estate. Dinner only; closed from 8 November 2026 to 18 March 2027. |
| Osmosi | Villa Svetoni, Montepulciano | Mirko Marcelli’s three tasting menus in a stone room and a glass veranda over the vineyards. Closed Wednesday. |
| Silene | Seggiano, on Monte Amiata | Roberto Rossi cooks in a former coaching inn at the foot of the mountain, with his own olive oil and garden. Closed Monday. |
| Linfa | San Gimignano, inside the walls | Six tables, a thirteenth-century cellar beneath them, and Giovanni Cerroni’s tasting menus. Closed Monday and Tuesday. |
| Castello di Fighine | San Casciano dei Bagni | Closed in spring 2026, after the guide was published. |
For Osmosi, Villa Teresa stands on its own hill near Montepulciano; for the Brunello tables, Montalcino Palazzo is in Montalcino.
Michelin restaurants on the Tuscan coast: Forte dei Marmi, Viareggio and Lucca
The Versilia coast, the northern stretch of the Tuscan coast, has more stars per mile than anywhere else in Tuscany: five in Forte dei Marmi alone, two more in Viareggio, then the hills of Lucca and the Lunigiana behind them. Several are seasonal and follow the beach summer.
| Restaurant | Where | Why go |
|---|---|---|
| Sciabola New in 2026 | Hotel St. Mauritius, Forte dei Marmi | Alessandro Ferrarini’s seafood, served in a champagne bar, a secret garden and a terrace. |
| Lorenzo | Forte dei Marmi | The classic of the coast since the early 1980s, now run by the founder’s daughter Chiara: raw seafood and mayonnaise made at the table. |
| Lux Lucis | Hotel Principe, Forte dei Marmi | A rooftop above the pines with the Apuan Alps behind; chef Valentino Cassanelli. Seasonal: it reopens in April 2027. |
| La Magnolia | Hotel Byron, Forte dei Marmi | Chef Marco Bernardo, with a chef’s table worth booking well ahead. |
| Bistrot | Viale Franceschi, Forte dei Marmi | A few steps from the sea: two wood-fired ovens and nearly 2,000 wines, deep in Champagne and Burgundy. Chef Andrea Mattei. |
| Romano | Viareggio | Opened in 1966 and starred since 1985; chef Nicola Gronchi. Order the stuffed baby squid. |
| Lunasia | Hotel Plaza e de Russie, Viareggio | Luca Landi’s kitchen behind glass, at street level on the promenade. |
| Butterfly | Marlia, near Lucca | A nineteenth-century farmhouse with a garden and a glass veranda, run by father and son, Fabrizio and Andrea Girasoli. |
| Locanda de Banchieri | Fosdinovo, Lunigiana | A seventeenth-century farmhouse with rooms and a veranda that looks to the sea; chef-patron Giacomo Devoto. |
Near Lucca, Villa Contrada sleeps 24 in twelve suites with a chef included, and Medea sleeps 28, both with the sea within the hour.
The Maremma and the southern Tuscan coast
| Restaurant | Where | Why go |
|---|---|---|
| Il Pellicano | Hotel Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole | Michelino Gioia cooks on a sea-view terrace on the Argentario. Dinner only; the hotel opens from April to late October. |
| La Trattoria Enrico Bartolini | L’Andana, Castiglione della Pescaia | Embers, a wood-fired oven and a terrace over the estate; resident chef Gabriele Verri. Open from May to September. |
| Bracali | Ghirlanda, near Massa Marittima | Francesco Bracali in the kitchen and his brother Luca in the dining room and cellar. |
| Gabbiano 3.0 | Marina di Grosseto | Alessandro Rossi’s seafood over the marina, with a summer veranda. |
| La Pineta | Marina di Bibbona | Reached through a pine wood, with the sea almost in the dining room; chef Daniele Zazzeri. |
In the Maremma, Via del Mare and Veltuna both have a cook included in the rent, which makes the starred nights the exception rather than the rule.
Elsewhere in Tuscany
| Restaurant | Where | Why go |
|---|---|---|
| Cannavacciuolo Vineyard | Laqua Vineyard, Casanova di Terricciola | Antonino Cannavacciuolo’s restaurant in the Pisan hills; Lodovico Eulogio became resident chef in 2026. |
| Il Falconiere | Near Cortona | Silvia Baracchi has held a star since 2002, in the former lemon house of a seventeenth-century villa. |
| Octavin | Arezzo | Twenty seats in an old palazzo; chef-owner Luca Fracassi. |
| Atman | Vinci | Chef Marco Cahssai, now in Vinci after leaving Villa Rospigliosi. |
| Paca | Moving from Prato to Carmignano | Left the centre of Prato in July 2026 to reopen on an estate in the Carmignano hills; ask us for the reopening date. |
Plan a Michelin itinerary in Tuscany
- Check the day. Most starred restaurants close one or two days a week, often early in the week: Enoteca Pinchiorri on Sunday and Monday, Arnolfo and Caino on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Check the season. The countryside and the coast close in winter: Il Pievano from November to March, La Sala dei Grappoli from 8 November, Il Pellicano from late October, Lux Lucis until April. Florence keeps most of its tables open all year.
- Plan lunch in the city, dinner in the country. Campo del Drago, Il Pievano, La Sala dei Grappoli and Il Pellicano serve dinner only; in Florence, Gucci Osteria serves lunch as well.
- Book a driver. Wine pairings and unlit hill roads do not mix. Our concierge books the tables and the car together.
- Book the summer tables with the villa. For June to September we suggest booking the villa 9 to 12 months ahead, and that is the moment to hold the evenings that matter most.
- Leave nights for the villa. The best dinner of the week is often under your own pergola. Our guide to the Tuscany villa rental with chef lists the villas where a chef is part of the rent.
Michelin star restaurants in Tuscany: your questions answered
How many Michelin star restaurants are in Tuscany?
45 in the MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026: one with three stars, five with two and 39 with one, which makes Tuscany the third region in Italy after Lombardy and Campania. Since the guide came out, Castello di Fighine has closed and Paca is moving from Prato to Carmignano.
Which restaurants in Tuscany have two Michelin stars?
Five: Arnolfo in Colle di Val d’Elsa, Santa Elisabetta in Florence, Campo del Drago at Castiglion del Bosco near Montalcino, Caino in Montemerano and Il Piccolo Principe in Viareggio.
What is the only three-star Michelin restaurant in Tuscany?
Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, on Via Ghibellina, which has held three stars since 2004. It is dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday, and is known as much for its cellar as for its kitchen.
What are the best Michelin star restaurants in Florence?
Enoteca Pinchiorri, with three stars, and Santa Elisabetta, with two, lead the city. The one-star tables are Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo, Il Palagio, Atto di Vito Mollica, Borgo San Jacopo, Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura and Saporium Firenze, with Serrae in Fiesole above the city.
Which Michelin star restaurants are in Chianti?
Seven, all with one star: Osteria di Passignano, La Torre at Castello del Nero, Il Pievano at Castello di Spaltenna, Poggio Rosso at Borgo San Felice, Contrada at Castel Monastero, L’Asinello and Il Visibilio.
Which Michelin restaurants are on the Tuscan coast?
Five in Forte dei Marmi (Lorenzo, Lux Lucis, La Magnolia, Sciabola and Bistrot), three in Viareggio (Il Piccolo Principe with two stars, Romano and Lunasia), and in the south Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Gabbiano 3.0 at Marina di Grosseto and La Pineta at Marina di Bibbona.
Which Tuscan restaurants won a Michelin star in 2026?
Two: Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo at Hotel La Gemma in Florence, and Sciabola at Hotel St. Mauritius in Forte dei Marmi, both with one star.
Is there a Michelin Guide for Tuscany?
Tuscany is covered by the MICHELIN Guide Italy, which publishes a new selection every November. In the 2026 edition, Tuscany has 45 starred restaurants: one with three stars, five with two and 39 with one.
When is the 2027 Michelin Guide for Italy announced?
On 12 November 2026, at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza. We update this list once the new selection is published.
Are Tuscany’s Michelin restaurants open in winter?
Most in Florence are. Many in the countryside and on the coast close for the winter, among them Il Pievano, La Sala dei Grappoli, Il Pellicano, Lux Lucis and La Trattoria Enrico Bartolini, so check the dates before you plan an autumn or winter trip around them.
Can you book Michelin restaurants with a villa stay in Tuscany?
Yes. When we confirm your villa, our concierge reserves the tables you want and arranges a driver for the evenings with a long wine list. For June to September, hold the most sought-after evenings when you book the villa.
Plan a Tuscan stay around the table
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