Breakfast at Siena House

Malvin rises early to bake fresh bread and patisserie for our guests, preparing a different breakfast each day. You can expect home-baked bread, muffins, tarts, brownies, cakes or other fresh-from-the-oven favourites, served with seasonal fruit, strained Greek-style yogurt, and Malvin’s own preserves made with perfectly ripe fruit from our orchard.

It is a slow, generous start to the day: personal, homemade, and very much part of the Siena House experience.

Freshly Baked Each Morning

Malvin began making his own bread in 2007, and his interest grew from there into jam making, baking, yogurt making, patisserie and preserves.

Today, breakfast is built around his homemade bread and freshly baked patisserie. Depending on the day, this might include pear muffins, custard tarts, chocolate brownies, apple cake, fruit tarts, or other seasonal bakes.

Local bread is often unsalted, so Malvin’s own salted bread has become something guests particularly appreciate.

Gluten-free guests are well looked after — Malvin bakes gluten-free bread and patisserie by prior arrangement, so do let us know when you book.

Served in the Garden

Breakfast is served between 9:00 and 10:00, usually outside in the garden during the warmer months.

It is one of the loveliest moments of the day at Siena House: morning light, quiet surroundings, fresh coffee, homemade bread, something sweet from the oven, and time to plan the day ahead.

Preserves from Our Own Orchard

Much of the fruit used in Malvin’s preserves comes from our own trees, picked when perfectly ripe and transformed into jams, compotes and other breakfast specialities.

Our small orchard includes apricot, apple, cherry, fig, peach, pear, plum and quince trees, as well as currants and a few melons. Favourite preserves include white fig, Mirabelle plum and quince.

These are served alongside homemade bread, yogurt, seasonal fruit and the morning’s fresh baking.

Seasonal Fruit, Yogurt, Tea and Coffee

Breakfast usually includes fresh-cut seasonal fruit and Malvin’s own strained Greek-style yogurt.

Coffee is prepared to your preference on a full-sized bar machine, and loose leaf tea is also available. Whether you prefer a cappuccino, espresso, long coffee or a pot of tea, breakfast is designed to be relaxed and unhurried.

Our Produce

The agriturismo, or farming aspect of Siena House, comes principally from our saffron and olive oil production.

We have approximately 10,000 saffron plants and around 150 olive trees, all planted on the medieval terraces on the south and west sides of the bluff where the house sits.

We also grow a variety of vegetables and herbs around the property, including tomatoes, potatoes, capsicum, aubergine, zucchini, onions, pumpkins, cucumbers, basil and other seasonal herbs.

Our orchard provides much of the fruit used in Malvin’s preserves, allowing breakfast to include something genuinely connected to the land around the house.

A Homemade Start to Your Tuscan Day

Breakfast at Siena House is not a buffet and not a standard hotel breakfast. It is made by hand, prepared fresh each morning, and served with care.

It changes with the seasons, the fruit, the weather and Malvin’s baking plans for the day. For many guests, it becomes one of the most memorable parts of their stay.

Please note that we do not serve juice or Nutella, but guests are welcome to bring their own favourites if they wish.

Made fresh each morning at our guesthouse near Montepulciano in southern Tuscany, breakfast is one of the simplest pleasures of a stay here — and for many guests, one of the most memorable. Choose your room to join us, or read more about the garden where breakfast is served.