The Chef
Chef Leonardo Fiorenzani is a volcano of ideas and creativity, just like his cooking. The menus he has created for La Sosta del Cavaliere are sophisticated and elaborate and at the same time direct and sincere because they are always developed from the best raw materials alongside the most modern cooking techniques.
His passion for cooking began as a child within the walls of his home where he began to approach this world thanks to the most genuine and representative ingredients of the Sienese territory, which he now cultivates personally in the restaurant’s vegetable garden.
From its beginnings in 2013 to the present day, Chef Leonardo Fiorenzani has been named an Ambasciatore del Gusto, a prestigious recognition awarded to those whose work promotes and enhances Italian food and wine excellence in the world; he realised ‘Gusto Lovers’ in October 2024, a day dedicated to the promotion of the territory and its food and wine excellences; also in the autumn of 2024, he was nominated by Forbes Italia as one of ‘the 100 innovative restaurateurs of 2025’; he was awarded 2 Forks by Gambero Rosso and was included in the IDENTITA’ GOLOSE 2025 guide and is a CESCOT Siena lecturer. In December 2024, he was named by the opinion leaders of Italian gastronomy among ‘the revelation chefs of 2025’. In December 2024, he was named by the opinion leaders of Italian gastronomy among ‘the revelation chefs of 2025’.
