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A bar in a former hat-maker's workshop on Piazza Santo Spirito, with the old wooden tools still on the walls, a small stage at the back and live music most weeks.
- Area
- Santo Spirito
- Address
- Piazza Santo Spirito 5r
- The building
- A former artisan workshop; the wooden hat forms are still on the walls
- Music
- Live music and a small stage at the back
- Checked
- August 2026
- Price
- €€
- Go for
- An aperitivo on the best square in Florence at a price that will surprise you, in a room that used to be a workshop making wooden hat forms.
- Skip if
- You want dinner. The food here is snacks with a drink, deliberately.
What everybody agrees on
Read across public reviews on TripAdvisor, Yelp and Italian sites in September 2026, roughly 500 in total.
- Nearly all
The price is the first thing reviewers mention. Drinks here cost noticeably less than at the tables a few metres away on the same square.
- Most
A drink comes with snacks: focaccia, olives, crisps. This is the older Florentine idea of aperitivo and it is disappearing elsewhere.
- Most
The room is the old bottega, full of vintage furniture and the wooden forms the workshop used to make.
- Often
Live music several nights a week, on a small stage at the back.
- Some
Seating is limited and it fills early on warm evenings.
- A few
One unisex bathroom, so expect a queue on a busy night.
What to order
Arrive before seven and take an outside table facing the church. Whatever you drink, the snacks come with it, which is the entire argument for this place over its neighbours.
Before you go
- Getting there
- On Piazza Santo Spirito, ten minutes west of Ponte Vecchio.
- Best time
- Happy hour in the early evening.
- Careful
- The bars on either side charge considerably more for the same drink and give nothing with it.
The Bini workshop made hats here, then design objects, and the bar kept the machinery instead of clearing it out. It works as a bar, a bookshelf and a small museum at once. Aperitivo comes with food included, which is why the tables outside go first and why the bill here is noticeably lower than at the place two rows over. Open until around two.