Florence City Guide
Best Restaurants in Florence
The best restaurants in Florence on this page are the ones a published guide names: the MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026, or Gambero Rosso's 2026 list of the city's best trattorie. Thirty tables are sorted by neighbourhood and by Michelin's own price bands, and every card prints its source and year. For things to do in Florence, our city guide adds the practical layer the guides leave out, like who actually serves lunch and which rooms publish no hours at all.
Quick answer Thirty tables three guides agree on, by area and budget
The highest-rated restaurant in Florence is Enoteca Pinchiorri on Via Ghibellina, the city's only three MICHELIN star restaurant in 2026, and six more tables hold one star. For a trattoria meal the guides converge on Del Fagioli, in Michelin's cheapest band, Da Burde, a Bib Gourmand also on Gambero Rosso's list, and Sostanza.
Key takeaways
- Pinchiorri, Del Fagioli and Cibrèo sit a few streets apart in Santa Croce and Sant'Ambrogio, the strongest group on the page
- For the steak without the booking hunt, the Florentine steak food walk books a table for you with 14 tastings and wine
- Street food, the bill and what to order live on where to eat in Florence, and coeliac-friendly tables on the gluten-free and vegan page
The Guided Option: Steak, Street Food and Pasta Classes
No restaurant on this page sells through us, so the only bookable products are guided food experiences. These are our own cards, priced per person.
| Experience | Price | What you get | Cancel | Book |
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| the Florentine steak food walkAnyone who wants the steak handled, table and all | €68 (about $80) | 3.5 hours, 14 food and 4 wine tastings plus a sit-down steak dinner, groups of 12 | Free 24h before | Check Availability |
| the sunset Oltrarno food and wine tourReaders staying on the south bank who want the evening covered | €108 (about $126) | 3.5 hours at dusk: prosecco, a Negroni, four wines from a wine window and cellar, cheeses, wild boar stew and gelato | Free 24h before | Check Availability |
| the pasta cooking class with unlimited wineBudget travellers who want to cook, not queue | €16 (about $19) | Make three fresh pastas in a 1200s tower and eat them with as much Tuscan wine as you like | Free 24h before | Check Availability |
Every food walk and class we sell is on the full food tour comparison. Figures current in Q3 2026.
Florence Restaurants by What You Want to Spend
Michelin prints a four-band price verdict on every entry, from "on a budget" to "spare no expense". The table below maps those bands to the venues in this guide, so you can start from your wallet rather than a name.
| Budget | What it looks like | Book ahead | Where to start |
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| On a budget (€) | Rustic trattoria, open kitchen at the door, Florentine steak | Yes, well ahead at Del Fagioli | Del Fagioli |
| A moderate spend (€€) | Trattoria or modern osteria, à la carte | Dinner yes, Zeb takes no lunch bookings | Da Burde, Il Santo Bevitore, Nugolo, Da Bibe |
| Special occasion (€€€) | Tasting menus offered alongside the carte | Yes | Cibrèo, Ora d'Aria, La Leggenda dei Frati |
| Spare no expense (€€€€) | Starred tasting menus, hotel dining rooms | Yes, weeks ahead | Enoteca Pinchiorri, Gucci Osteria, Borgo San Jacopo |
Bands are Michelin's own wording from each 2026 entry page, not our estimate. Gambero Rosso prints no price band, so its three trattorie (Sostanza, Il Magazzino and Cecchini in città) are left out of this table.
Eat With Someone Who Knows the Tables
If you would rather be led to dinner than research it, these walks and classes cover the same ground as the cards below. Every food walk and class compared lives on its own page.
from €68
Florence: Food Walking Tour with Local Steak and Tuscan Wine
listed at $79.00
3.5-hour food walking tour with 14 food and 4 wine tastings plus a sit-down Florentine steak dinner, small group of up to 12; not accessible to wheelchair users or strollers.
Check Availability
from €108
Florence: Sunset Food & Wine Tour with Tastings
listed at $126.26
3.5-hour Oltrarno food and wine walk at sunset: prosecco welcome, Negroni, 4 wines from a wine window and cellar, cheeses, wild boar stew, gelato.
Check Availability
from €53
Top rated
Florence: Street Food Walking Tour with Wine
listed at $62.55
2.5-hour licensed-guide street-food walk with tastings and drinks included, past the Duomo and Ponte Vecchio. Not for vegans or gluten intolerance.
Check Availability
from €42
Top rated
Florence: Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guide
listed at $48.65
2.5-hour street-food walk through San Lorenzo Market and the Duomo area with several tastings and a sip of wine; morning only, no vegan or gluten-free.
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from €16
Best seller
Florence: Pasta Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine
listed at $18.53
Make three fresh pastas with a chef inside a 1200s tower once owned by Dante's wife's family, then eat it all with unlimited Tuscan wine.
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from €42
Top rated
Florence: Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine
listed at $48.65
Three-hour pasta and tiramisù class in a local restaurant with wine pairing, then coffee or limoncello; vegan and gluten-free variants on request.
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How We Chose: Three Guides and What Each Mark Means
The Three Sources
The MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026 is the backbone of this page. Its stars mark high or exceptional cooking, its Bib Gourmand means "good quality, good value cooking", and every entry, starred or not, carries one of four price bands, from "on a budget" to "spare no expense". Those bands are the budget sort in the table above.
Gambero Rosso's 2026 feature on the best trattorie in Florence names five: Da Burde, Osteria Tripperia Il Magazzino, L'Ortone, Trattoria Sostanza and Cecchini in città. Slow Food's Osterie d'Italia 2026, the 36th edition, lists 1,980 venues across Italy, 163 of them in Tuscany with 30 Chiocciole, its snail mark, and Florence province is the most listed in the region with 23. Once you have picked where to eat, the same appetite for the city carries over into florence guided tours, a natural next step for turning a day of meals into a fuller look at Florence.
What We Left Out
Santa Elisabetta holds two stars, but its Michelin page marks it temporarily closed, so it gets no card. Enoteca Spontanea, which holds a Slow Food Chiocciola for 2026, one of three in Florence, is missing too: the only address we found came from aggregator listings, not from the venue, and we do not print an address we cannot source. The other two Chiocciole, Leonardo Torrini's tripe kiosk and Osteria dell'Enoteca, are carded on where to eat in Florence with ten more places, from the tripe carts to Gelateria della Passera.
Blogger favourites with no published source behind them are left out on principle, however often they appear in lists.
This Is Not a Ranking
The cards are grouped by area, not scored against each other. A budget trattoria on Corso Tintori and three stars on Via Ghibellina sit a few streets apart in the same Santa Croce group because the guides named both, and no single list could rank them against each other honestly. Pick the neighbourhood you will be in at dinner time, then the band you want to spend in, and read the card's source line to see who vouches for it.
Every card carries a map link built from its address, and the map further down shows the whole list at once, from the centro storico to the tables beyond the walls.
Around the Duomo, Signoria and the Uffizi
Seven tables inside the sightseeing grid, three of them starred. Hours are printed only where the venue itself publishes them, and most of these rooms do not, so call ahead for anything starred.
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Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura
One star, inside the Gucci building on Piazza della Signoria, born of the collaboration with the three-starred Modenese chef. The signature is tortellini in Parmesan cream, with Japanese accents from chef Takahiko Kondo against a thoroughly Italian base. Book weeks ahead for any starred room in this group.
- Address
- Piazza della Signoria 10, Firenze
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Atto di Vito Mollica
One star a few steps from the Duomo, in the Corte degli Imperatori of Palazzo Portinari under sixteenth-century frescoes by Alessandro Allori. The emblematic dish is lightly seared langoustine over two mirror sauces, one of carrot and orange, one of Champagne. Wine pairing and the coffee service are part of the evening in Michelin's account.
- Address
- Via del Corso 6, Firenze
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Luca's by Paulo Airaudo
One star on the first floor of Hotel La Gemma, in a small L-shaped room with green boiserie. The tasting menu runs to a minimum of four courses, each built from a few precise elements, and the goat's milk flan with strawberry caramel crust closes it. Close to everything yet easy to walk past.
- Address
- Via dei Cavalieri 2/c, Firenze
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Degusteria Italiana
A small, intimate room on Via Lambertesca between the Uffizi and Ponte Vecchio. Michelin praises the spare contemporary cooking, the cheese and cured meat selection and an all-Italian wine list with the Supertuscans prominent. The venue's own site confirms lunch, a reduced version of the evening menu, alongside dinner.
- Address
- Via Lambertesca 7r, Firenze
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Ora d'Aria
Marco Stabile's contemporary room behind the Uffizi, its name a nod to the nearby prison of Le Murate, with a ceiling frescoed in gold leaf and an open kitchen built for conversation with the cooks. It handles meat and fish with equal command. Dinner only, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, closed Thursday and Sunday per the venue's own site.
- Address
- Via dei Georgofili 11r, Firenze
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Konnubio
An informal but polished contemporary Italian room on Via dei Conti near San Lorenzo, with land, sea and garden tasting menus beside the carte. Michelin flags the cuttlefish tagliatelle with its own ragù and the cocktails. Book well in advance for the table on the staircase, one of the most coveted seats in the house.
- Address
- Via dei Conti 8 r, Firenze
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Terrae by Iside De Cesare
Iside De Cesare, of the starred La Parolina, cooks in the Tivoli Palazzo Gaddi on Via del Giglio, pairing Tuscany with evocations of her native Tuscia. The dish that convinced the inspector is an artichoke stuffed with squid, poised between cooked and raw. In the warm season you aperitivo at the rooftop bar Aria with Duomo views, then dine al fresco.
- Address
- Via del Giglio 9, Firenze
Nearby sightseeing for before or after: Duomo tickets, Uffizi tickets and Piazza della Signoria.
Santa Maria Novella and Ognissanti
The station side of the centre, which most visitors only cross. Three tables here justify stopping, including a trattoria with over 150 years of history and Dario Cecchini's first restaurant in Florence.
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Trattoria Sostanza
Gambero Rosso calls it a trattoria that looks as if it came out of a film, with over 150 years of history, period photographs and white-marble table tops. Its advice is direct: go for the bistecca cooked over embers, and start with the crostini di fegatini. The menu comes on a sheet of paper and part of the room is tourists, which the guide says plainly. There is no website with hours or prices, so call.
- Address
- Via della Porcellana 25/R, Firenze
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Cecchini in città
Dario Cecchini's first restaurant in Florence, inside the 25hours Hotel on Piazza San Paolino, with the grill in the middle of the room. Two formats: the Cecchini Griglia fixed menu at a communal table, running from tartare through bistecca panzanese or fiorentina, and the Famiglia à la carte with cavatelli al polpo among the primi. A vegetarian menu is available.
- Address
- Piazza di San Paolino, 25hours Hotel Florence, Firenze
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Winter Garden Florence
The St. Regis on Piazza Ognissanti turned its old carriage courtyard into a winter garden of marbles, Murano chandeliers and a resident pianist. Michelin places the kitchen in the Mediterranean tradition of land and sea, simple dishes lifted by precise technique. The aperitivo at the cocktail bar is, in the guide's words, an almost indispensable ritual.
- Address
- Piazza Ognissanti 1, Firenze
For the market hall and street food end of this quarter, see Mercato Centrale and San Lorenzo.
Santa Croce and Sant'Ambrogio
The strongest cluster on the page: the three-star, the budget trattoria everyone is told to book, and the Sant'Ambrogio institutions. See the Santa Croce district for the neighbourhood itself.
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Enoteca Pinchiorri
The only three-star restaurant in Florence in the 2026 guide. Annie Féolde and Giorgio Pinchiorri opened it in 1972 as a modest wine shop with a kitchen, and it now fills a seventeenth-century palazzo on Via Ghibellina. Michelin's inspector singles out the pastry kitchen, the indispensable soufflé and a cellar it calls mythological. Book weeks ahead, and call for hours, since the home page publishes none.
- Address
- Via Ghibellina 87, Firenze
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Del Fagioli
A rustic trattoria on Corso Tintori with the open kitchen at the entrance and Michelin's cheapest band, on a budget. The inspector lists excellent Florentine steaks, pici with aglione sauce, pappa al pomodoro and twice-cooked beef with sautéed green beans. Reservations well in advance are required, which tells you how beloved it is. It has no website, so book by phone.
- Address
- Corso Tintori 47 r, Firenze
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Cibrèo
A historic institution near Sant'Ambrogio, dining since 1979, in an elegant room that Michelin likens to a private salon. House classics include pork liver with lemon, the tortellini timbale, squab stuffed with mostarda and a cheese tart with bitter orange marmalade to close. The venue's own menu prices the timballo di tortellini at €27 (about $32) and cuore di bistecca at €56 (about $66). A tasting journey also exists.
- Address
- Via A. Del Verrocchio 8r, Firenze
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Nugolo
A convivial contemporary room on Via della Mattonaia near Sant'Ambrogio, with colourful furnishings and an open kitchen run by a young chef. Expect dishes like seared octopus with mussels and buffalo-milk panna cotta, or duck breast with a red-fruit jus. The venue's site prints the schedule: Monday to Saturday 19:30-24:00, Saturday lunch 12:00-13:30, Sunday closed.
- Address
- Via della Mattonaia 27r, Firenze
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Il Palagio
One star on the ground floor of Palazzo della Gherardesca in the Four Seasons, with marble decor and Murano glass chandeliers. Chef Paolo Lavezzini offers two tasting menus and an à la carte of substantial, unfussy dishes built on top-quality ingredients. Michelin's own review calls it a perfect choice for a romantic, luxurious evening.
- Address
- Borgo Pinti 99, Firenze
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Locale Firenze
You enter through a medieval courtyard cocktail bar and climb through the building, from underground cellars to a Renaissance piano nobile dining room. The cuisine is avowedly creative, shaped by chef's stints in Australia, Japan and France. For up to four guests there is Labo-ttega in the cellars, a cuisine-and-mixology experience by reservation.
- Address
- Via delle Seggiole 12r, Firenze
Santa Croce sightseeing for after lunch: Santa Croce and Piazzale Michelangelo are both in walking range.
Oltrarno: Santo Spirito, San Frediano and San Niccolò
Across the river is where Florence eats. This is the densest group on the page, and the Oltrarno itself deserves a morning before dinner.
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Borgo San Jacopo
One star in the Hotel Lungarno just beyond Ponte Vecchio, with two balcony tables over the Arno that Michelin calls the lucky seats. Chef Claudio Mengoni's meat and fish dishes carry an occasional Tuscan influence across two tasting menus and a carte. Hours from the venue: Wednesday to Sunday, 19:00-22:00, no lunch.
- Address
- Borgo San Jacopo 62 r, Firenze
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Saporium Firenze
One star on the San Niccolò lungarno, where Florentine chef Ariel Hagen works an open kitchen and then explains the dishes at the tables. Tasting menus can also be ordered dish by dish, and the dessert to chase is Caterina De' Medici's rose, a modern zuccotto with milk and Alkermes. The wine list runs to rare 1980s and 90s labels.
- Address
- Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini 63r, Firenze
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Il Santo Bevitore
A modern classic on Via Santo Spirito, keeping the feel of a Tuscan trattoria while refreshing the tradition. The repertoire runs from cured meats and ribollita to roast pigeon with fettunta and zolfini beans, plus the occasional seafood dish such as cuttlefish and artichoke stew. Michelin bands it a moderate spend, which fits the room.
- Address
- Via Santo Spirito 64/66 r, Firenze
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Osteria Tripperia Il Magazzino
Gambero Rosso calls this tiny piazza-side room a temple of offal, in the square between Santo Spirito and Palazzo Pitti known as Piazza della Passera. The brick-vaulted room serves carpaccio di lingua, polpette di lampredotto, pappardelle all'anatra and peposo, and the verdict is that you leave happy spending the right amount. Noisy, with courtyard seating in warm months.
- Address
- Piazza della Passera 2, Firenze
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Io Osteria Personale
A contemporary bistrot on Borgo San Frediano, well past its tenth year and a solid reference for the quarter. The kitchen balances meat, fish and vegetarian plates, and Michelin's inspector singles out ravioli with peas and asparagus under a camomile and pollen goat's cheese foam. Exposed beams, natural wood and a minimal sensibility throughout.
- Address
- Borgo San Frediano 167r, Firenze
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Cucina
On Via Giano della Bella, a rustic room designed by its owner-architects and dotted with cookery books. The daily menu follows whatever the market provides, with meat and vegetables often cooked in the wood-fired oven. Michelin bands it a moderate spend, an honest mid-range pick in San Frediano.
- Address
- Via Giano della Bella 3r, Firenze
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Gunè San Frediano
A small gastronomic room on Via del Drago d'Oro where the chef bridges Basilicata and Tuscany, the two regions of his life. Michelin calls the result creative, delicate and beautifully presented, and bands it a special occasion. No website publishes hours, so book by phone.
- Address
- Via del Drago d'Oro 1r, Firenze
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Cuculia
A measured, French-bistrot-style room on Via dei Serragli with a small culinary library. Venezuelan chef Oliver Betancourt trained in France, Spain and Italy, and his menu folds kombu, soy sauce and koji into seasonal Tuscan produce. Vegetarian dishes are clearly marked and several plates suit vegans.
- Address
- Via dei Serragli 3/rosso, Firenze
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Cestello Firenze
The fish restaurant of this list, on the piazza dominated by the church of San Frediano in Cestello. Raw seafood gets a dedicated tasting menu, you can pick the catch of the day at the fish counter, and the bar serves serious cocktails with refined tapas. The wine list carries Italian verticals including Masseto and Ornellaia.
- Address
- Piazza di Cestello 8, Firenze
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La Leggenda dei Frati
Inside the Villa Bardini complex off Costa San Giorgio, reached on foot by an uphill climb that keeps the crowds away. Chef Filippo Saporito works Italian tradition with sustainable supply chains, and in summer the terrace sits among herbs with Santa Croce as a backdrop. Michelin notes it feels like the Tuscan hills, cicadas included.
- Address
- Costa San Giorgio 6/a, Firenze
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Podere 39
Just beyond Porta Romana on Via Senese, an intimate room of few covers where a portion of the ingredients comes from the restaurant's own farm. The menu alternates meat and fish with rustic details and generous flowers. Michelin says advance booking is strongly advised, and with this few tables that is not a formality.
- Address
- Via Senese 39 r, Firenze
Slow Food's other two Florence Chiocciole for 2026, Leonardo Torrini and Osteria dell'Enoteca, are carded on where to eat in Florence.
Worth the Bus: Tables Outside the Walls
This is where Florentines book at weekends, and the practical answer to eating where the queues do not. All three are a taxi or bus ride from the centre.
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Da Burde
The one venue both guides name: Michelin gives it a Bib Gourmand and it opens Gambero Rosso's trattorie list. A food shop with an adjoining trattoria, run by Andrea and Paolo Gori in dining room and kitchen, where the starters come from the charcuterie and cheese counters and the wood-ember grill turns out bistecca alla fiorentina. Gambero Rosso counts over 120 years, Michelin over 125, and both say to book.
- Address
- Via Pistoiese 154, Firenze
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Da Bibe
In Galluzzo, at the point where the city dissolves into countryside, a trattoria with over 150 years of history now in its sixth generation. Michelin flags pici al ragù, beef peposo, the fried or grilled chicken and a fiorentina that interprets the classic canons in the most authentic manner. Its own site prints the schedule and the small print: opens 19:30, lunch also on Saturday, Sunday and holidays, closed Wednesday, coperto €2.50 (about $3).
- Address
- Via delle Bagnese 1r, Galluzzo, Firenze
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Il Gusto di Xinge
Proof that outside the walls does not mean only Tuscan. A Chinese chef presents authentic cuisine from her homeland, dim sum included, filtered through Italian and French training with a pop sensibility, in a warm brown room on Viale Belfiore. Michelin suggests an artisanal cocktail at nearby DrinX as the prelude.
- Address
- Viale Belfiore 2, Firenze
Bus and tram tickets for the ride out are covered on getting around Florence.
The Florentine Steak: Where the Guides Send You
The Shortlist
Five venues on this page put the bistecca at the centre. Del Fagioli serves what Michelin calls excellent Florentine steaks in its cheapest band. Da Burde grills over wood embers.
At Sostanza, Gambero Rosso's advice is to go for the bistecca cooked over embers. Cecchini in città builds its Griglia menu at a communal table around Dario Cecchini's cuts, ending in bistecca panzanese or fiorentina. And at Da Bibe, Michelin praises a fiorentina that interprets the classic canons in the most authentic manner.
Before you order, read how the steak is priced by weight, because the bill follows the scale, not a fixed plate price.
The Guided Version
If you want the steak without negotiating a booking, the Florentine steak food walk folds a sit-down steak dinner into a 3.5-hour walk with 14 food and 4 wine tastings, in a group of no more than 12, for €68 (about $80). It meets in Piazza della Signoria by the equestrian monument of Cosimo I, and it is the only product on this page that includes a table at dinner. Free cancellation runs to 24 hours before the start.
It is not accessible to wheelchair users or strollers, which is worth knowing before you book an evening that ends at a sit-down meal.
Pasta Worth Crossing the River For
The Dishes the Inspectors Circled
For the best pasta in Florence, Italy, start from the dishes the guides single out by name. Michelin lists pici with aglione sauce at Del Fagioli. Gambero Rosso sends you to Il Magazzino for pappardelle all'anatra, wide ribbons with duck.
Cibrèo's tortellini timbale is a house classic in Michelin's words and costs €27 (about $32) on the venue's own menu. Da Bibe keeps pici al ragù on the card, and at Io Osteria Personale the inspector was most convinced by ravioli with peas and asparagus under a camomile and pollen goat's cheese foam. Three of the five are across the river or beyond the walls, which is the practical case for crossing to the Oltrarno at dinner.
Make It Yourself
The cheapest food experience we sell is also the most reviewed: the pasta cooking class with unlimited wine costs €16 (about $19) and carries 14,931 reviews at 4.9. You make three fresh pastas with a chef inside a 1200s tower once owned by Dante's wife's family, then eat everything with unlimited Tuscan wine, in 2 to 2.5 hours. For dessert on top, the pasta and tiramisù class runs three hours in a local restaurant for €42 (about $49), with a wine pairing, coffee or limoncello at the end, and vegan and gluten-free variants on request.
Lunch in Florence: Who Actually Serves It
Who Publishes Lunch Hours
Florence's guide-listed tables lean towards dinner, and several rooms on this page open in the evening only. The table lists only venues whose own websites state the times, because hours copied from aggregators cannot be trusted. Five venues publish enough to plan around.
Of those, only Nugolo, Da Bibe and Degusteria Italiana serve lunch at all, and Nugolo and Da Bibe only at the weekend. So a weekday lunch from this list means Degusteria Italiana, whose site does not state its days, or a phone call to one of the rooms below.
| Venue | Lunch | Dinner | Source |
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| Nugolo | Saturday 12:00-13:30 only | Mon-Sat 19:30-24:00, Sunday closed | ilnugolo.com |
| Da Bibe | Sat, Sun and holidays | from 19:30, closed Wednesday | trattoriabibe.com |
| Degusteria Italiana | Yes, a reduced evening menu | Days not stated, check | degusteriaitalianafirenze.com |
| Ora d'Aria | No | Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat, closed Thursday and Sunday | oradariaristorante.com |
| Borgo San Jacopo | No | Wed-Sun 19:00-22:00 | lungarnocollection.com |
Where Nobody Publishes Hours
Most starred rooms publish no hours on their home pages at all: Pinchiorri, Gucci Osteria, Il Palagio, Saporium and Luca's among them. Sostanza, Il Magazzino and Del Fagioli have no website with hours or a menu. For all of these, call before you plan a lunch around them.
Zeb takes no reservations at lunchtime, which makes it the one guide-listed table you can simply turn up at for a midday meal, and it is carded on where to eat in Florence. For a quick lunch between sights, the panino and schiacciata counters are the fast route.
Tables With a View
Villa Bardini and the Terrace
La Leggenda dei Frati sits inside the Villa Bardini museum complex off Costa San Giorgio, reached on foot by an uphill approach. In summer Michelin describes the terrace as romantic, surrounded by greenery and the scents of herbs, with a glimpse of Santa Croce church as a backdrop and the occasional sound of cicadas. It is the view that feels furthest from the city while remaining inside it.
The price band is spare no expense, and there is a vegetarian menu. If you want the panorama without the bill, the walk up to Piazzale Michelangelo costs nothing.
The Duomo From a Rooftop
Terrae by Iside De Cesare builds the view into the evening in the warm season: an aperitif first at the rooftop lounge bar Aria, with vistas embracing Florence's Duomo, then dinner al fresco. The menu is written by Iside De Cesare with resident chef Salvatore Canargiu, and the dish that won the inspector over is an artichoke stuffed with squid, poised between cooked and raw. The rooftop is a warm-season arrangement in Michelin's description, so out of season you eat inside the Renaissance walls of Tivoli Palazzo Gaddi.
It is the simplest way to get a skyline and a serious kitchen in one booking.
On the Water and on the Piazza
Borgo San Jacopo sits on the Arno just beyond Ponte Vecchio, and the two balcony tables Michelin mentions are the closest a dinner here gets to the river. It opens Wednesday to Sunday, 19:00-22:00, so this view is an evening one only. Cestello Firenze faces the piazza of San Frediano in Cestello, which Michelin calls spectacular, and its bar pours cocktails with tapas if you want the square without the full menu.
Both sit in the highest price band on this page, so ask for the balcony or a terrace table when you book rather than hoping on arrival.
Booking, Timing and the Bill
Who Needs a Reservation
Michelin is blunt where it matters. Del Fagioli requires reservations well in advance, Da Burde is constantly frequented and booking is recommended, Podere 39 has few covers with advance booking strongly advised, and Konnubio's staircase table must be booked well ahead. At Zeb the rule reverses, since it takes no reservations at lunchtime.
Where a venue prints a dinner start, it is 19:00 or 19:30: Borgo San Jacopo, Nugolo and Da Bibe. The Oltrarno and Santa Croce fill from 20:00, so an early slot buys you the quiet part of the evening.
The Bill
Da Bibe prints a coperto of €2.50 (about $3) on its own menu, the clearest example on this page of the cover charge that appears on many Florentine bills. What the coperto is, what a service charge means and whether to tip are all laid out on the bill explained, so this page does not repeat them. Only two venues here print menu prices at all, Cibrèo and Da Bibe, so for the rest the band in the budget table is the best guide you will get before you sit down.
Gluten-free and vegan readers should read the dedicated page before booking.
Every Table on the Map
The 27 MICHELIN-listed venues on this page, coloured by area. Gambero Rosso's three trattorie carry their map link on each card instead.
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guideFlorence Restaurant Questions
What is the highest-rated restaurant in Florence?
Enoteca Pinchiorri on Via Ghibellina 87, the only restaurant in Florence with three MICHELIN stars in 2026. The two-star Santa Elisabetta is marked temporarily closed by Michelin. See the Santa Croce cards.
Which Florence restaurants have Michelin stars?
Seven hold stars in 2026: Enoteca Pinchiorri with three, and one star each for Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, Atto di Vito Mollica, Luca's by Paulo Airaudo, Borgo San Jacopo, Il Palagio and Saporium Firenze. Five of the seven sit in the centre and Santa Croce groups, the other two across the river in the Oltrarno group.
Where do Florentines eat that tourists miss?
Outside the walls. Da Burde on Via Pistoiese, Da Bibe in Galluzzo and Il Gusto di Xinge on Viale Belfiore are the guide-backed answers, plus Osteria Tripperia Il Magazzino in Piazza della Passera. See the outside-the-walls cards.
Where is the best Florentine steak in Florence?
The guides point to Del Fagioli, Da Burde, Sostanza, Cecchini in città and Da Bibe, all in the steak section. To have a table booked for you, the steak food walk includes a sit-down steak dinner.
Can I get lunch at these restaurants?
Only some, and the hours are dinner-first. Nugolo serves Saturday lunch only, Da Bibe adds lunch on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and Borgo San Jacopo opens evenings only. Details in the lunch section.
Do I need to book these restaurants?
Yes at nearly all of them. Michelin says reservations well in advance are required at Del Fagioli, that Da Burde should be booked, and that Podere 39 has few covers. The exception is Zeb, which takes no lunch bookings. More in the booking notes.
What is a must eat in Florence?
The bistecca, pici and lampredotto, plus the street food classics, are all covered dish by dish on where to eat in Florence, which handles what to order and what it costs.
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