The Bar/Lounge at Grand Hotel Continental Siena - Starhotels Collezione

"Opened in 2002, the impeccably restored building—originally a Renaissance palazzo—includes a chic wine bar with eye-catching armchairs in a bright glassed-in courtyard on the ground floor, next door to which is a more traditionally elegant restaurant in a couple of Belle Époque dining rooms"

"If nothing else, poke your nose into the magnificent 1st-floor reception room and reward yourself with a drink in the stylish ground-floor wine bar, open to all-comers"

"Inside this airy space is Sapordivino, the hotel’s wine bar and restaurant, offering classic Tuscan cuisine such as ribollita, a traditional bean soup, and house-made pici pasta—best paired with a bottle of the region’s Tenuta San Guido"

"Apart from a wine cellar bar and a fine-dining restaurant serving gourmet Tuscan cuisine, there are few other common spaces or facilities (there's no fitness center, pool, or spa), although the grand ballroom would be a memorable place for events"

"And oenophiles can sip their way through the 3,000 bottles stored in the 13th-century fort–turned–wine bar in the basement"