Babae €€
A restaurant on Via di Santo Spirito with a working wine window, which for one hour each evening hands glasses of wine through a hatch in the wall to whoever rings the bell.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Verified
- August 2026
Where to drink wine in Florence without the tourist markup
🍷 drink wine somewhere real
Small wine bars in Florence pouring producers you will not find in the centre, including two minutes from Ponte Vecchio.
The places
Badia a Passignano
A fortified abbey standing alone among Chianti vineyards, with a Ghirlandaio Last Supper inside and cypress avenues around it.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
Enoteca Alla Sosta dei Papi €€
A wine bar on Borgo la Croce where a glass of house wine costs about three euro and arrives with crostini, and locals refill bottles from the vats.
- Area
- Sant'Ambrogio
- Verified
- August 2026
Fuori Porta €€
A wine bar just outside the old San Niccolo gate, open since the eighties, with hundreds of labels and crostoni that count as dinner.
- Area
- San Niccolo
- Verified
- August 2026
Il Budellino €
A tiny wine counter in the Oltrarno where the aperitivo happens on the street outside because the room holds about eight people.
- Area
- Oltrarno
- Verified
- August 2026
Il Santino €
A small stone room off Via di Santo Spirito, pouring wine from tiny producers with a serious showing of natural bottles, alongside crostoni, cheese and cured meat.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Verified
- August 2026
Il Santo Bevitore €€
A long room in the Oltrarno with wooden tables and a wine list built by people who care about it, still serious about the food twenty years in.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Verified
- August 2026
Le Volpi e l'Uva €€
A tiny wine bar on a hidden square two minutes from Ponte Vecchio, pouring small producers almost nobody else in the centre stocks.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Verified
- August 2026
Pitti Gola e Cantina €€
A small wine bar facing Palazzo Pitti, run by people who will talk you through a bottle properly, with a list weighted to natural and small production wines.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Verified
- August 2026
Wine Lab €€
A bulk wine shop on Via Gioberti where you bring your own bottle, they fill it from the vat, and you can also just stay and drink a glass.
- Area
- Sant'Ambrogio
- Verified
- August 2026
10 places in this collection.