Le Barrique

Northwestern Tuscany


Be it lunch at noon (meals €20), afternoon snacks, a cocktail-fuelled apericena (meal-sized aperitivo buffet from 6pm) or dinner with fine wine, this fashionable enoteca with red-brick ceiling and colourful ceramic-tiled bar is an excellent spot to graze on Tuscan salami, cold meats (including Prato's famous mortadella di Prato) and local cheeses.

Find Le Barrique (The Wine Barrel) footsteps from the cathedral.


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