Alla Vecchia Bettola €
A loud trattoria on the corner of Piazza Tasso with marble-topped communal tables, a menu written on butcher's paper each day, and the penne that everyone in the room has ordered.
- Area
- San Frediano
- Verified
- August 2026
Old trattorias in Florence that have not changed
🧙🏼♂️ places with an old soul
Family-run trattorias and wine counters in Florence, most of them decades old, where the room and the menu have stayed as they were.
The places
Antica Trattoria da Tito €
A trattoria on Via San Gallo open since 1913, with graffiti from floor to ceiling and waiters who tease the room as a matter of principle.
- Area
- San Marco
- Verified
- August 2026
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
Buca dell'Orafo €€€
A cellar dining room down a flight of steps under the arcade behind Ponte Vecchio, in the quarter where the city's goldsmiths worked.
- Area
- Centro
- Verified
- August 2026
Casa del Vino €
A wood-panelled wine shop behind the Mercato Centrale where you stand at the counter with a glass and a crostino and the owners keep the conversation going.
- Area
- San Lorenzo
- Verified
- August 2026
Chalet Fontana €€
A literary cafe founded in 1896 on the hill road to Piazzale Michelangelo, with a garden, a vegetable plot and a restaurant behind it.
- Area
- Oltrarno
- Verified
- August 2026
I' Brindellone €
A neighbourhood trattoria in San Frediano where the room is loud, the tables are close and the Florentine steak is priced for locals.
- Area
- San Frediano
- Verified
- August 2026
Museo Stibbert €€
A Victorian collector's house on a hill north of the centre, with a hall of life sized armoured knights on horseback and a park with an Egyptian temple.
- Area
- Montughi
- Verified
- August 2026
Trattoria Cammillo €€€
Run by the same family since 1945, a few steps from Ponte Vecchio, where Tuscan cooking sits next to curried prawns invented for English regulars in the fifties.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Verified
- August 2026
Trattoria Mossacce €
A tiny room in the centre with a menu that changes daily, one of the fastest services in Florence, and all the Tuscan classics done without decoration.
- Area
- Centro
- Verified
- August 2026
Trattoria Sabatino €
A canteen west of the centre with paper tablecloths, a handwritten menu and prices that have not caught up with the rest of Florence.
- Area
- San Frediano
- Verified
- August 2026
Trattoria Sergio Gozzi €
A lunch-only trattoria on Piazza San Lorenzo with roots going back further than most of the city's famous ones, and a menu that changes every day.
- Area
- San Lorenzo
- Verified
- August 2026
Trattoria Za Za €
A large trattoria on Piazza del Mercato Centrale, open since 1977, with eccentric rooms full of paintings and dolls, Tuscan classics, and a queue outside even for people who booked.
- Area
- San Lorenzo
- Verified
- August 2026
Trattoria da Burde €
A trattoria that opened as a fiaschetteria in 1901 and now sits well outside the walls, which is exactly why the room is full of Florentines and almost nobody else.
- Area
- Outside the centre
- Verified
- August 2026
14 places in this collection.