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Restaurants in Firenze
Where to eat in Florence: bistecca and lampredotto, ribollita and crostini, and the two covered markets where the city shops.
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Eating in Firenze
Florence has two kitchens that look nothing alike: grilled meat, and offal eaten standing up in the street. Both are native.
The meat
- Bistecca alla fiorentina — from the loin, T-bone in, at least four fingers thick and cooked rare. You order it by weight, and you do not ask for it well done: the cooking is part of the recipe.
- Peposo — shin stewed in red wine with a great deal of black pepper, born in the kilns of Impruneta.
- Crostini neri — chicken livers on bread, the opening plate of every laid table here.
Offal, standing up
Lampredotto and trippa alla fiorentina are eaten at street stalls, in a roll dipped in broth, with green and chilli sauce. It is the most Florentine thing you can order, and it costs about as much as a coffee and a half.
The bread, which here has no salt
Ribollita, pappa al pomodoro and panzanella are three ways of not throwing stale bread away, and they are three real dishes. Tuscan bread is unsalted: that is why it holds up in a soup instead of falling apart.
Where the city shops
The Mercato Centrale at San Lorenzo and the Sant'Ambrogio market are open in the morning and are the place to start from: the trattorias that buy there are all around them.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
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