Florence Restaurants

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Eating - Florence Restaurants
Italians are masters of the art of fine living. That means eating... long and well. Lenghy, multi-coure lunches and dinners and endless hours sitting in outdoor cafès are the norm. Americans eat on their way to an evening event and complain if the check is slow in coming. For Italians, dining is an end in itself, and only rude waiters rush you. When you want the bill, mime-scribble on your raised palm or ask for it: "Il conto".

Even those of us who liked dorm food will find thatthe local cafès, cuisine, and wines become a hightlight of our Italian adventure. this is sightseeing for your palate, and even if the rest of you is sleeping in cheap accommodations, your taste buds will relish an occasional first-class splurge. You can eat will relish an occasional first-class plurge. You can eat wll without going broke. But be careful; you'are just as likely to below a small fortune on a disappointing meal as you are to dine wonderfully for 20 Euro.

To save money and time for sights, heep lunhes fast and simple, eating in one of the countless pizzerias and self-service cafeterias.

Restaurants:
Good restaurants in Florencedon't open before 19.00 for dinner.Restaurants parked on famous squares generally serve bad food at hight prices to tourists. Local eat better at lower-rent locales. Family-run places operate without hired help and can offer cheaper meals. The words trattoria and osteria make me salivate. Any place called ristorante is generally more formal, with prices to match. A full meal consists of an appetizer (antipasto 3-8 euro) a first course (primo piatto, pasta or soup 4-10 euro) and a secound course (secondo piatto, expensive meat and fish dishis, 6-14 euro. Vegetables (contorni, verdure 2-4 euro). Many famous in florence is the Bistecca alla Fiorentina. Many famous in Italy for the Bistecca alla fiorentina in Dario Cecchini here the web site: www.solociccia.it/

Restaurats in Florence - North of the river:

Trattoria il Trebbio - serves traditional food with simple Florentine elegance at excellent prices in its candle-lit interior. Reserve for out seating, half a block off Piazza Santa Maria Novella at Via delle Belle Donne 47 ph: 055287089.

Osteria Belledonne - you'll fell like you're eating dinner in a crowded terrarium piled higt with decorative knickknacks. Old-fashioned Tuscan food is served on tight tables. Address: Via delle Belle Donne 16 ph: 0552382609

Enoteca Fuoriporta - Fuoriporta - Firenze- Tel. 0552342483 E-mail: info@fuoriporta.it
Cibreo - via a. del verrocchio 8r / via dei macci 122r firenze tel +39 055 234 11 00 / fax +39 055 244 966

Enoteca Pinchiorri - Presents the French/Tuscan cuisine and staff of the Michelin three star restaurant. Photographs, sample menus and location details. Via Ghibellina 87 Telefono: +39 55 242 757 Fax: +39 55 244 983 Web: http://www.enotecapinchiorri.com/ Stazione più vicina: ATAF 14, 23, 71, A, C Nei dintorni: Centro Storico

Pane e Vino - Restaurant in Florence, Piazza del Cestello 3r, Tel. 0552476956 fax 0554211009 cell. 3282871049

Ristorante la Decima Musa: Telefono 055-294122, Via del Parione al numero 50 rosso. Typical Tuscany Restaurant in the center of Florence.


Restaurats in Florence - Chianti - Tuscany:

Solociccia - Dario Cecchini recently opened Solociccia (5 Via Chiantigiana; 39-055/852-727; dinner for two $80) across the street from his shop, Antica Macelleria Cecchini, in Tuscany’s Panzano-in-Chianti

Enoteca La Sosta del Rossellino - Via del Rossellino, 2r 50135 Settignano (FI) ITALIEN Tel. and Fax: +39 055 697245 E-mail: info@rossellino.com Website: www.rossellino.com. Family-run Restaurant/Wine-Bar on the hills right above Florence. Damiano serves you wine with the versovino® - a single-glas decanter he invented. Don't leave Florence without having tried his homemade-GNOCCHI with Castelmagno-Sauce.

Osteria de' Medici

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