Florence restaurants
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