Oblate Library, cafe with view overlooking Duomo and Brunelleschi´s Cupola
via dell`Oriuolo 26
hrs Mon 2-7
Tu 9- 10pm
W-Sa 9am to 7pm
Closed Sundays and holidays
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Near Ufizzi
Trattoria Roberto
behind the museum, Via Castellani 4r
good lunch, mix of locals, selection of reasonably priced traditional second courses and pastas
Da `Ino, a few steps from musuem, via dei Georgofili, hidden a bit behind museum in Via della Ninna).
11-5
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Pasta, olive oil, garlic, chili (barely, not for heat, but for flavour). White sauce, not red, not full of chili. Red bird´s eye, not flakes. No seeds, thinly sliced, like fresh chive sprinkled on. Reg Parm, fresh shavings, to top.
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Thin, large slices of rare roast beef, au jus, potato wedges (boiled, then grilled to soft crispness, with spices of coriander seeds, etc. Salad. Garlic bread.
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Tortellini with garlic butter sauce, topped with fresh shavings of Reg parm. White sauce.
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Tagliatelle with ragout in a red sauce
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Garlic bread slice, smothered with Peposo stew.
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Trattoria Sabatino (on the other side of the wall, thru Porta San Frediano to Via Pisana). Down from the street cart below (next suggestion).
Via Pisana 2r
Inexpensive family run tratt, 1956 til. Open weekdays only. Pasta course, meat/fowl course, side, glass wine, bottle water. Menu changes daily, seasonal too. Sulle rigaglie di pollo is cockscomb and chicken giblets. Perfect nomal sized portions, not huge difficult portions. Soup. Tortellini, Antipasto, dessert.
A gelaterria is about a block away back thru the wall.
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Cross Arno at Ponte Vespucci, walk straight to Borgo San Frediano ( a few streets away), to a street cart with a few tables outside, serving traditional Italian street food, panini, and pasta. A few meat courses. (Cont on to the above, Trattoria Sabatino)
lampredotto, traditional panini, is tripe. I do not like tripe--it´s a traditional Norwegian, and Southern food, and I do not like it. It is not Green Eggs and Ham, which I would try and like,). Scene in LeapYear springs to mind,). Viva coq au vin!,)
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Picnic lunch. Find a great mercato or allimentari of fresh fruits and veggies, salami, cheese, bread, ham, etc wine. Then find a park with bench table to sit and enjoy your meal.
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Piazza della Republica
Giubbe Rosse
inexpensive buffet/antipasto lunch. Sit inside and there is not table service charge. Outside prices are much higher (applies to other places as well, ask).
Evenings, large apertivi buffet, includes price of a drink, inexpensive if you sit inside.
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Procacci Panini/Sarny shop
Via Tournabuoni 64R(near the shoe museum)
panini tartufati is truffles (also not something I particularly like)
but has appetizer buffet in evenings, includes price of a drink. Inside prices apply.
breakfast, brunch
Prosecco choice here is excellent, with really good panini
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Nerbone, inside the Mercado Centrale
also has hot veggie soup and pasta selection, not just the lampredotto (tripe panini):)
Open daily, except Sunday, 7.30 am til 1.30pm
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Santa Croce area, Nencioni, excellent Prosecco flute.
8am til 7.30 pm
Nencioni bar pasticceria, Via Pietrapiana 24R
has food
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