Il Cibreo
via a dei Verrocchio 40 / via de’ Macci (near the markets)
Arguably the best Tuscan (meat) food. No pasta dishes.
Go to the trattoria rather than the restaurant and get to know other diners at your table over the same food as the restaurant but much more reasonably priced. 
Closed Sunday & Monday  
Tel: +39 055 234 1100

Enotica Pinchiorri
via Ghibellina 87
The top end in quality, price and formality.
A "grand restaurant" in all senses.
Closed Sunday & Monday & Wednesday Lunch   
Tel: +39 055 242 777
 
 
 
 
 

Cantinetta Antinori
Palazzo Antinori, via Tournabouni
Antinori estate wines available by the glass with excellent (but not cheap) Tuscan style food. 
A vaulted room on the ground floor of the Palazzo Antinori - worth peeping in just to see the bar!
Tel: +39 055 292 234 
 
 
 

La Grotta Guelfa
via Pellicceria near of Piazza della Repubblica
Full medium priced restaurant menu including good fish
Attractive outside area for lunch or summer dinner in the centre of town but away from the crowds.
Tel: +39 055 210042
 
 

Osteria Delle Belle Donne
via delle Belle Donne 16, behind Palazzo Antinori 
Blackboard menu
Good casserole style food for a quick lunch in a fun crowded share-a-table sub ground floor!! But throughput is their priority - definitely not the place for slow food devotees or lingerers!
Closed Saturday & Sunday  
Tel: +39 055 238 2609
 
 
 

Trattoria 4 leoni 
piazza della passera  (p.zza Pitti)
tel. +39 055  218562

Il Francescano 
Largo Bargellini  (P.zza S.Croce)
tel. +39 055 241605

Baldovino
via S.Giuseppe, 22R (p.zza S. Croce)
tel. +39 055 241773

Bars & night-life options

Zoe 
via de’ Renai, 13/r 
tel. +39 055 243111

Cabiria
p.zza S.Spirito Genesi,
p.zza Duomo, 20/r
tel. +39 055  287247

Maramao
via de’Macci, 79/r 
tel. +39 055 244341 

Rose’s 
via del Parione, 26/r 
tel. +39 055 287090

Florence Countryside

La Fattoria
Via del Cerro 11
Tavernelle val di Pesa (FI)
This is an excellent restaurant on the way to Siena from Florence. The antipasta is not to be missed. While the meat is grilled in an open fireplace as you enter the restaurant.
closed: Tuesday
Tel: (+39) 055 8070000

Ristorante Santa Caterina
Via S.G. Gualberto
Vallombrosa
This an excellent restaurant for their meat dishes.
closed: Wednesday
Tel: (+39) 055 862 043

Pizzeria Torricelli
Via R. Fucini 2B
Cancelli
An excellent pizzeria, here you can have some of the best pizza in Tuscany.
closed: Wednesday
Tel: (+39) 0558 667413