The best pastry shops Toscane

Dating back to 1898, it's an institution and a meeting place for all gourmets. Just take a look and you'll see that it's the place to go for gourmet treats: cakes, confectionery, ice cream, sandwiches and small dishes, each as tempting as the next. So it's easy to grab a bite to eat. Terrace on the borgo Stretto, site of the traditional passeggiata , where you have to show up to enjoy your pastries accompanied by an espresso stretto!

Don't worry, even if Marcella can scare some with her bossy look, this is one of the best pastries in the city. You have been warned! The window filled with cookies, pastries, pastries, cantuccini and other homemade cakes invites you to indulge in gourmet delicacies and the prices are competitive. It is also possible to make a salty stopover, with a sandwich, panini or focaccia, and even to have a glass of wine.

With such a name (criollo is the noblest variety of cocoa), you can imagine that here it is a matter of taste! And of chocolate! This bar-pastry-chocolate shop, located next to the historic center and therefore away from tourism, makes modern sweet creations that are popular with the locals. You will hear Italian spoken there, which is not necessarily the case a few meters away. On the terrace, you can sip a good coffee accompanied by a slice of Santa Fina, one of the house specialties, with saffron (produced in San Gimignano) and lemon. Yummy!

Every Sienese (and visiting tourist) worthy of the name should stop by Nannini for a coffee with a delicious pastry - try the baccio di Siena glacé! You will find all the great Tuscan classics (at more or less affordable prices): cantuccini, panforte, ricciarelli with almonds and pretty cream cakes as we like them. Cookies that are already self-service packaged are convenient to take away, but be careful with the price, they are much more expensive than those sold by weight and are not so fresh.