Mercato Centrale
Florence’s Mercato Centrale, Central Market in English, is where you’d wake up if you died and went to foodie heaven. Just picture a genuinely authentic market place in an ancient building where the bottom floor has grocery store-like stands selling the best local fare you’ll find anywhere in Italy and the second floor is littered with mini restaurant stands selling some of the best dishes in town that you can just walk up to and order within minutes. Upon taking the elevator to the second/top floor, you enter a surreal land where you can get any kind of food, and somehow every dish is the best version of that dish you have ever had. Don’t eat for a day and a half and make a trip to Central Market the highlight of one of your days in Florence.
Lacale Firenze
Florence’s premiere fine dining experiences.
Cibreo Trattoria
Florences premiere chef’s flagship restaurant
Trattoria Da Burde Firenze
This Florence staple is slightly outside the main city center, but it is well worth the trip. A family-run institution of Firenze dining, this restaurant specializes in home-cooked, classic, traditional Florentine food like minestrone, meatballs, grilled meats and pasta recipes passed down through generations.
Essenziale
One of Florences few truly inventive menus. Chef Simone Cipriani takes Florentine classics strips them down and rebuilds them in truly surprising ways.
La Bussola
One of Florence’s best brick-oven Pizza spots.
Al Solito Posto
The best pizza in town. Just look at their instagram page … HERE
Coquinarius
They have dishes on their menu like a burrata-filled ravioli in a pistachio pasta, baccala and saffron spaghetti and cacio e pepe ravioli with truffle…I shouldn’t have to say anything else.
Regina Bistecca
Florence’s best restaurant for their classic bistecca alla Fiorentina dish.
Ristorante Arà: è Sud
Sicilian street food hole-in-the-wall joint turned elegant sit down restaurant with exceptional southern Italian food like seafood, fresh crude, risotto, cannoli, and the best pistachio gelato in town.
Trattoria Sabatino
A timeless culinary relic that first opened in 1956. Entirely family owned and operated, they specialize in working class pasta dishes that start at only 4.50EUR. Homestyle cooking at bargain prices.
La Bottega Del Buon Caffè
Michelin-starred dining experience featuring some of Florence’s best and most creative dishes.
Trattoria Antico Fattore
Known for their Florentine steak, Antico Fattore has served the authentic recipes of the best Florentine and Tuscan dishes since 1865. Antico Fattore still offers the same atmosphere of an ancient Florentine trattoria, where prominent artists and intellectuals have met since 1929. That’s when an extraordinary combination of literature, art, delicious dishes, Chianti wines, music, disputes, feelings and a pinch of worldliness was born, leading to the launch of the Antico Fattore Literary Prize in 1931.
Ristorante Il Guscio
Homestyle Tuscan cuisine with one of Florence’s most diverse wine menus. Huge portions that are good for sharing.
Aroma
Florence’s best seafood restaurant
La Divina Pizza
Excellent Roman style pizzeria, where you can order by the slice. Features high quality ingredients and artisan toppings.
Buca dell’Orafo
11th century basement featuring some of the best that classic Florentine cuisine has to offer.
SandwiChic
Florence’s best sandwich/panini shop