Its family-run kitchen specializes in fusion cuisine, using produce from the Greek islands.
It specializes in regional cuisine, using faro in soups and hand-rolled pastas, with wines from the Lucca foothills.
David Coleman, chef de cuisine, uses the juice to cure foie gras; the acidity complements its fattiness, he said.
In addition, the hotel has a 25-meter pool, two bars and a restaurant with contemporary European-style cuisine using local ingredients.
That cuisine uses cheese to a degree that other Chinese cooking doesn't, and it's mad for mushrooms and flowers.
Her latest, Estate (400 West Spain Street, Sonoma; 707-933-3663; theginlandthefig.com), opened in 2008 in a historic home, serves regional Italian cuisine using Northern Californian ingredients.
Hirst's cuisine uses local, mostly organic ingredients in updated osteria recipes like pan-grilled scallops with porcini mushrooms, red Viterbo potatoes and crispy guanciale bacon.
Still River, open weekends only, serves a contemporary American cuisine using produce grown in the organic gardens and greenhouses visible from the front window of the restaurant.
The owner and chef, Moha Fedal, has created a Moroccan nouvelle cuisine, using less fat and more imagination, in a dreamlike Andalusian setting.
Where to Eat Da Rina, Mura delle Grazie 3R, telephone and fax (39-010) 246-6475, serves traditional Genoese cuisine using the freshest of ingredients.
