Winter brings on the table delicious crude meats, including the succulent Cinta Senese salami. You can also try the medium-mature and mature pecorino cheese and the black crostini, prepared with chicken spleen or liver, or the medieval crostini prepared with an ancient sweet-and-soar sauce typical in the past of Siena. The stuffed chicken neck is always available.

• Stuffed chicken neck with senese sauce
• Tuscan Salami with crostini
• Senese Salami of cinta pork
• Finocchiona (fenel seeds salami) with fresh pecorino dressed with truffle oil

This is the best time for winter soups, cappellacci and fresh pasta. Due to the hard winter temperatures, the most common vegetables such as the black cabbage permit to prepared dishes as the tuscanian ribollita, impossible to find with all its original ingredients out of season.

• Farro soup with black cabbage
• Cappellacci filled with pumpkin and dressed with sage-and-butter or meat sauce
• Vecchia Osteria tagliolini dressed with bacon, onion and walnuts
• Handmade pici with sausage and porcini mushrooms

The Vecchia Osteria offers courses full of flavour, in this season in which you certainly need to be pampered, even by our culinary arts. The guineafowl and the wild boar, typical of the Tuscan countryside are accompanied by the salama da sugo from Ferrara. This is a proposal for refined and demanding palates, served on a bed of mashed potatoes.

• Guineafowl stuffed with senese sauce and meat
• Pot roasted beef dressed with Chianti sauce, almonds and pine nuts
• Stewed wild boar dressed with sweet-and-soar sauce

According to the seasonality of products and availability, the Vecchia Osteria offers you the possibility to compose vegetarian dishes combining different types of vegetables. Diced mix vegetables, cannellini beans, mushrooms, fennel are also very good side dishes to pair with the main course you selected.

• Season diced vegetables
• Sautéed piattellini beans with sage, garlic and pepper in grains
• Stuffed and grated mushrooms  
• Fennel with butter

The range of cheeses offered by the Vecchia Osteria varies during the year as suppliers and producers follow the natural reproductive cycles of their herds.
In winter you can find ripened cheeses such as pecorino, which can be perfectly accompanied by mustards and Tuscan chestnut honey.

Desserts are the final touch after a good meal. The Vecchia Osteria offers you the opportunity to try its special confectionery and exclusive cakes to leave after experienced a unique feeling.

• Vecchia Osteria delizia with cream and syrup peaches
• Tenerina, deep chocolate cake
• Panna cotta with wild berries or melted chocolate on top
• Walnuts biscuits