Florence Restaurants?
Mar 6, 2016 | 7:59 am
#31
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: SEA
Posts: 4,049
Thank you for your further suggestions.
I'll note them down for my (hopefully) next visit to Firenze.
This is my last evening here and the weather is not nice at all so not in the mood for too much walking.
I'll probably just go to the Mercato Centrale (I have more or less lived there these last few days - nice place to shelter from the rain).
About the drinks in the Mercato Centrale: in addition to ordering water, soft drinks, and beer at the table, you can also order wine, prosecco, and champagne. The wine would be the 'house wine' I expect - anything else, you'll have to pick up yourself.
I'll note them down for my (hopefully) next visit to Firenze.
This is my last evening here and the weather is not nice at all so not in the mood for too much walking.
I'll probably just go to the Mercato Centrale (I have more or less lived there these last few days - nice place to shelter from the rain).
About the drinks in the Mercato Centrale: in addition to ordering water, soft drinks, and beer at the table, you can also order wine, prosecco, and champagne. The wine would be the 'house wine' I expect - anything else, you'll have to pick up yourself.
You're already well into your day there, but I'm kind of hoping you order a Fiorentina from the butcher stall and tell us how it is
I really wanted to, but ran out of time.
Mar 6, 2016 | 8:32 am
#32
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Programs: Mainly Hilton Hhonors, SAS Eurobonus
Posts: 1,981
I was sitting 2 places - across from the burger place (on high chairs) and at a normal table across from the meat place to the immediate left of the burger place (la carne e i salumi).
The drinks menu has water/soft drinks on one side and beer/wine/prosecco on the other.
It was the usual drinks-people taking my order.
I have decided not to have the Fiorantine steak - looks like there is too much bone and irregular meat on it for me.
But I have had the Tagliata di Bovine from the meat place next to the burger place and that was a surprisingly big steak.
Their roasted potatoes are very good too.
Going in there now and have to decide what'll be my last meal there.......
The drinks menu has water/soft drinks on one side and beer/wine/prosecco on the other.
It was the usual drinks-people taking my order.
I have decided not to have the Fiorantine steak - looks like there is too much bone and irregular meat on it for me.
But I have had the Tagliata di Bovine from the meat place next to the burger place and that was a surprisingly big steak.
Their roasted potatoes are very good too.
Going in there now and have to decide what'll be my last meal there.......
Last edited by helosc; Mar 6, 2016 at 8:49 am
Mar 6, 2016 | 1:52 pm
#33
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Philadelphia
Programs: BAEC Silver, SPG Gold
Posts: 465
Florence Restaurants?
I ate at Osteria dei Pazzi in Florence on the recommendation of an Instagram comment. They were reserved but when I mentioned the name of my Instagram friend (I've never met) the owner smiled and found me a table (apparently they grew up together in Italy) the food was really good and there were many families and groups. It's a funny story of how Instagram got me a table that I wrote about http://philatravelgirl.com/florence_solo_dining_osteria_dei_pazzi/
Social media and FT are great for highlighting hidden gems IMO
Social media and FT are great for highlighting hidden gems IMO