The Restaurant at Villa Cora

"Modern well-equipped spa, outdoor swimming pool and refined cuisine in the restaurant, where you can dine on the veranda in summer"

"It is part of the prestigious Relais & Châteaux fellowship of hotels and restaurants"

"Grand, ornately decorated halls are used as restaurants, bars, card rooms, and whatever else suits guests’ whims"

"There's an excellent restaurant and in warm weather, lunch and evening cocktails are served by the pool"

"It has two terrific restaurants—the elegant gourmet Il Pasha and a luminous garden restaurant next to the heated white-stone pool—as well as two bars, one with an impressive selection of cigars, and a full-service spa with a sauna, steam room, and massive whirlpool bath"

"The spa and restaurant are housed in the handsome coral-hued annex"

"Compasses reset, we try again, this time successfully finding the restaurant, where we plump (this is the operative word) for a four-course Tuscan tasting menu, delivered with a gastronomic flourish by a chef who clearly knows his way around a cow"