Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Florence from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Florence
Our guide counts 7 Michelin-starred restaurants in Florence and 10 Michelin stars in total. The restaurants below hold Michelin stars for 2026.
Enoteca Pinchiorri in San Niccolo holds three Michelin stars for 2026 and a Wine Spectator Grand Award. Contemporary Italian cooking with Tuscan influences also draws on French traditions, served as a tasting menu and a la carte. A sommelier leads the wine list. La Liste scored the restaurant 94 points, and Opinionated About Dining includes it on the Classical Europe list.
Santa Elisabetta in San Niccolo holds two Michelin stars for 2026. Chef Rocco De Santis cooks a Mediterranean menu around fish and seafood with Campanian roots, served as a tasting menu and a prix fixe. The restaurant occupies the Byzantine Torre della Pagliazza at Brunelleschi Hotel. La Liste scored it 80 points. A sommelier leads an extensive wine list.
Il Palagio in Le Cure holds one Michelin star for 2026 and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Chef Paolo Lavezzini reinterprets Tuscan traditions through Italian and Brazilian influences at Palazzo della Gherardesca, with garden terrace dining. The restaurant serves a tasting menu and a la carte. Falstaff scored it 96 points. A sommelier leads an extensive wine list.
Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli holds one Michelin star for 2026. The restaurant serves a tasting menu of contemporary Tuscan food from its own organic farm and gardens. The wine list reaches rare 1980s and 90s labels. A signature dish reworks the classical zuccotto.
Luca's by Paulo Airaudo in Santo Spirito holds one Michelin star for 2026. The restaurant reinterprets Tuscan traditions in an Art Deco room. Chefs Cappelletti and Querini cook a tasting menu that includes goat tagliolini with anchovies and wagyu beef, with more classical references alongside. The restaurant is on the first floor of La Gemma hotel.
Our guide counts one Wine Spectator Grand Award, four Best of Award of Excellence awards, and one Award of Excellence. The restaurants below state a cellar size or a regional focus, or pour natural wine.
Atto di Vito Mollica in San Niccolo holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and one Michelin star for 2026. Wine director Clizia Zuin oversees 5,400 bottles with particular depth in Burgundy, Champagne, and Piedmont. Chefs Rosario Bernardo and Paolo Acunto cook seafood-focused menus from Tuscan and Umbrian ingredients in the Corte degli Imperatori of Palazzo Portinari Salviati.
Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo holds a Michelin star for 2026 and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. The wine list runs to nearly 700 selections, weighted toward Tuscany, Burgundy, and Champagne, with 4,310 bottles in inventory. Cooking moves between Emilian technique, Tuscan produce, and Japanese precision, and the menu also draws on Mexican influences. Tortellini in Parmesan cream is among the signatures.
Borgo San Jacopo in Santo Spirito keeps an exceptional wine cellar of over 800 labels, and a sommelier leads the list. Chef Claudio Mengoni cooks modern Tuscan and Italian dishes, with creative meat and fish, on tasting menus and an a la carte menu. The restaurant is inside Hotel Lungarno. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 336th among classical restaurants in Europe for 2025.
Cucina in Giardino Torrigiani holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2025 and a Michelin Plate. Wine director Tanner Scarr oversees a 1,850-bottle list. Marc Albino's menu changes with the market, with wood-fired Tuscan steaks, and an adjacent pizzeria cooks Neapolitan-style pizza. Opinionated About Dining recommended the restaurant among casual restaurants in Europe for 2026.
Il Santo Bevitore in Santo Spirito holds a Michelin Plate and pours natural wine, with a sommelier leading an extensive list. The menu includes Tuscan dishes such as pappa al pomodoro and cured hams, and it also moves into contemporary cooking. Service is a la carte and by set menu, in a former stable. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 25th among casual restaurants in Europe for 2025.
Enoteca Pinchiorri and Santa Elisabetta in San Niccolo, Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli, and Luca's by Paulo Airaudo in Santo Spirito all serve tasting menus. Ora d'Aria in San Niccolo runs a meat tasting menu and a fish tasting menu.
Ora d'Aria in San Niccolo holds a Michelin Plate. Chef Marco Stabile runs two tasting menus, a meat menu and a fish menu, with creative Italian cooking that uses Tuscan ingredients. Guests can see the kitchen during service. The wine list is extensive. Opinionated About Dining ranked the restaurant 202nd among classical restaurants in Europe for 2024.
Degusteria Italiana in San Niccolo holds a Michelin Plate for modern Italian cooking. Tasting menus are built around cheese, truffles, and game, with creative presentations, and an a la carte menu is also offered. A sommelier leads an extensive wine list.
Konnubio in Santo Spirito holds a Michelin Plate. Tasting menus are built around meat, fish, and vegetables, and an a la carte menu is also offered. The wine list is organized by grape variety and ranges well beyond Tuscany, with a sommelier. The modern Tuscan cooking takes international influences, and the restaurant makes its own bread. Craft cocktails are poured as well.
La Leggenda dei Frati in San Niccolo holds a Michelin Plate. Chef Filippo Saporito runs tasting menus, including a vegetarian option, with creative cooking grounded in Italian tradition and sustainable sourcing. The restaurant is in the Villa Bardini complex, with on-site gardens. A sommelier leads an extensive wine list.
Ciblèo in Ricorboli serves a tasting menu of Tuscan, Japanese, and Korean fusion cooking inspired by kaiseki. Chef Fabio Picchi works in an intimate room of 16 seats. The kitchen works within the Tuscan culinary tradition. The wine list is extensive.
Traditional Tuscan trattoria is the largest cuisine group in our guide, with 18 restaurants. Michelin Bib Gourmand awards sit on several of the trattorie below.
Cibrèo Trattoria in Ricorboli holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a Michelin Plate. The cooking is traditional Tuscan trattoria food, served a la carte, near the Sant'Ambrogio market. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 379th among top restaurants in Europe for 2025.
Il Latini in Santo Spirito holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The menu is traditional Tuscan trattoria cooking, with bistecca, ribollita, pappa al pomodoro, and cantucci with vin santo, served a la carte and family style. The wine list is extensive. Opinionated About Dining recommended it among casual restaurants in Europe for 2026.
Trattoria Sostanza in San Frediano has served a short menu of Tuscan dishes since 1869, including butter chicken. The format is a la carte in a family-run room. The wine list is extensive. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 44th among casual restaurants in Europe for 2025.
Zeb in San Niccolo holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. A mother and son run a counter around the kitchen, and the chef recites a daily menu of Tuscan gastronomia, including handmade pici, cappellacci, Florentine tripe, and beef tongue. The wine list is extensive. Opinionated About Dining recommended it among casual restaurants in Europe for 2026.
Da Burde in Nave A Petriolo holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a Star Wine List award for 2026. The family-run trattoria combines a grocer's shop with Tuscan dining, including Fiorentina steak. Sommelier Andrea leads the wine. Service is a la carte and family style. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 700th among casual restaurants in Europe for 2025.
Florence has 7 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, holding 10 Michelin stars in total. They include Enoteca Pinchiorri, Santa Elisabetta, Atto di Vito Mollica, and Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo, Il Palagio in Le Cure, Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli, and Luca's by Paulo Airaudo in Santo Spirito.
San Niccolo holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award, at Enoteca Pinchiorri. That restaurant also holds three Michelin stars. The kitchen cooks contemporary Italian food with Tuscan influences and French traditions, as a tasting menu and a la carte. A sommelier leads the wine list. La Liste scored Enoteca Pinchiorri 94 points.
Tasting menus are served at Enoteca Pinchiorri and Santa Elisabetta in San Niccolo, at Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli, and at Luca's by Paulo Airaudo in Santo Spirito. Ora d'Aria in San Niccolo runs a meat tasting menu and a fish tasting menu. Degusteria Italiana in San Niccolo builds tasting menus around cheese, truffles, and game. La Leggenda dei Frati in San Niccolo includes a vegetarian tasting menu.
Enoteca Pinchiorri in San Niccolo holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award. Best of Award of Excellence awards include Il Palagio in Le Cure, Atto di Vito Mollica in San Niccolo, and Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo. Cucina in Giardino Torrigiani holds the Award of Excellence. Citywide, our guide counts one Grand Award, four Best of Award of Excellence awards, and one Award of Excellence.
The stated regional focus is Tuscany, Burgundy, and Champagne at Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo, and Burgundy, Champagne, and Piedmont at Atto di Vito Mollica in San Niccolo, whose cellar holds 5,400 bottles. Il Santo Bevitore in Santo Spirito pours natural wine with a sommelier. Cantinetta Antinori in Santo Spirito pours Antinori estate wines. Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli reaches rare 1980s and 90s labels.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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One of Italy's eleven three-Michelin-star restaurants, Enoteca Pinchiorri has occupied its 17th-century palazzo on Via Ghibellina since 1972, building one of Europe's most celebrated wine cellars alongside a kitchen that draws from both Italian and French traditions. Rated 94 points on La Liste 2026 and ranked in the Opinionated About Dining Classical Europe list, it operates dinner service Tuesday through Saturday at the upper tier of Florentine fine dining.
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Santa Elisabetta occupies the upper tier of Florence's fine dining scene, housed inside the Byzantine Torre della Pagliazza, the city's oldest circular tower, with just six tables on the first floor of the Brunelleschi Hotel. Chef Rocco De Santis holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 80 points (2026), building an elaborately constructed Mediterranean menu around fish and seafood with clear Campanian roots.
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Il Palagio Florence brings Michelin-starred sophistication to Palazzo della Gherardesca, where Chef Paolo Lavezzini's Italian-Brazilian menu progression creates unexpected magic within neo-Classical elegance. Surrounded by historic gardens, this evening sanctuary reinterprets Tuscan traditions through the chef's distinctive South American perspective.
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A Michelin-starred dinner in a frescoed Renaissance palazzo behind the Duomo, Atto di Vito Mollica positions itself at the serious end of Florence's contemporary Italian scene. The kitchen, led by chefs Rosario Bernardo and Paolo Acunto, draws on high-quality Tuscan and Umbrian ingredients with a marked lean toward seafood and unexpected flavour combinations. Wine director Clizia Zuin oversees a cellar of 5,400 bottles with particular depth in Burgundy, Champagne, and Piedmont.
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On Piazza della Signoria, where Florence's political history plays out in stone and bronze, Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura holds a Michelin star for cooking that moves between Emilian technique, Tuscan produce, and Japanese precision. Tortellini in Parmesan cream is among the signatures. The wine list runs to nearly 700 selections, weighted toward Tuscany, Burgundy, and Champagne, with 4,310 bottles in inventory.
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Cibrèo Trattoria on Via dei Macci operates as the more accessible sibling to the celebrated Cibrèo restaurant next door, serving the same kitchen's Tuscan repertoire at a fraction of the price.
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A Michelin-starred dining room set within Hotel Lungarno, Borgo San Jacopo operates at the serious end of Florence's fine-dining tier, ranked #336 among Europe's classical restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025. Chef Claudio Mengoni's menu moves between two tasting formats and an à la carte, with creative meat and fish dishes that carry selective Tuscan inflection, served across a room with two coveted balcony tables overlooking the Arno.
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Set on the first floor of La Gemma hotel on Via dei Cavalieri, Luca's by Paulo Airaudo holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and operates at the €€€€ tier. Chefs Cappelletti and Querini run a concise, product-driven menu where goat tagliolini with anchovies and wagyu beef sit alongside more classical references. Oval tables with kitchen views make it a considered choice for a formal dinner in central Florence.
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Saporium Firenze holds a Michelin star and sits on Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, where a Florentine chef presents creative tasting menus alongside à la carte options. The wine list reaches back to rare 1980s and 90s labels, while the kitchen's sustainability-led approach and a signature reimagining of the classical zuccotto give regulars two reasons to return before they've finished their first visit.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised trattoria in Florence's Oltrarno district, Cucina operates on a daily-changing menu built around whatever Marc Albino finds at the market that morning. Wood-fired cooking, a 1,850-bottle wine list overseen by Wine Director Tanner Scarr, and a dining room lined with cookery books set the tone: serious about produce, relaxed about everything else. Two-course dinners run in the €40–65 range.
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Giovanni Santarpia brings the Neapolitan pizza tradition of Castellammare di Stabia to Florence's Oltrarno district, making a case that the south's most debated export can hold its own in Tuscany's demanding food culture. The focus is on high-quality ingredients and orthodox technique rather than reinvention. Find it on Via Senese, 155r.
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La Ménagère occupies a converted nineteenth-century household goods store on Via de' Ginori, operating today as a multi-concept space that folds restaurant, bar, flower shop, and design retail into a single address. Among Florence's more formal dining rooms, it offers a distinct register: the atmosphere reads more like a Parisian concept store than a Tuscan trattoria, positioning it in a different competitive tier from the white-tablecloth rooms at Enoteca Pinchiorri or Santa Elisabetta.
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An Ischian pizza maker holds the line on Neapolitan STG tradition inside a city better known for bistecca and ribollita. At Giotto Pizzeria on Via Francesco Veracini, the dough is long-leavened, the ingredients are quality-sourced, and the atmosphere reads less like Florence than Naples. For a city where serious pizza has historically taken a back seat, this address changes the calculus.
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Few Tuscan trattorias balance serious wine programming with Bib Gourmand-level cooking the way Da Burde does.
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All'Antico Vinaio on Via dei Neri has become a reference point for the Florentine schiacciata sandwich, drawing recognition from Opinionated About Dining's Europe Cheap Eats list three consecutive years running. The format is counter-service, the product is Tuscan flatbread loaded with regional cured meats and soft cheeses, and the queue outside is a reliable indicator of its standing in the city's street food tier.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient and Opinionated About Dining-ranked trattoria on Via dei Palchetti, Il Latini operates at the €€ tier and serves dinner Tuesday through Sunday from 7:30 pm. The menu anchors on Florentine classics: bistecca, ribollita, pappa al pomodoro, and cantucci with vin santo.
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A counter-format trattoria in Florence's Oltrarno quarter, Zeb applies the discipline of a sushi bar to classic Tuscan cooking. Dishes change with the blackboard, running from handmade pici and cappellacci to Florentine tripe and beef tongue. Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in both 2024 and 2025, alongside consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings, confirm its position as one of the neighbourhood's most consistent lunch and dinner addresses.
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One of Florence's most enduring trattorias, Sostanza has occupied the same address on Via del Porcellana since the 1860s, serving a short, unchanging menu of Tuscan fundamentals to a dining room that looks much as it always has.
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Cuculia occupies a quietly bookish room on Via dei Serragli, just back from the Arno, where Chef Oliver Betancourt fuses seasonal Italian produce with ingredients drawn from his training across Venezuela, France, Spain, and Italy.
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Gambero Rosso's three-slice rating places it among the recognized names in the city's pizza scene, while the dual focus on both dough and seafood sets it apart from single-format operators across Tuscany.
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Reburger brings a deliberate 'slow fast food' approach to Oltrarno, Florence's left-bank neighbourhood with a history of artisan craft. Smashed patties are seared from fresh meat, sauced with house-made condiments, and served on brioche from Wild Buns Bakery. The industrial-meets-cultural interior doubles as a venue for rotating art shows and music events, placing it firmly outside the standard burger-joint format.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient for 2024 and 2025, L'Ortone sits beside Florence's Sant'Ambrogio market at the €€ price point, delivering direct Tuscan-style cooking alongside a regional wine list that punches well above the room's modest decor.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in 2024 and 2025, Podere 39 operates on a farm-to-table premise grounded in literal proximity: the eponymous farm supplies the kitchen directly. Limited seating and a short, disciplined menu of Tuscan land and sea dishes make it one of the stronger value arguments on the Oltrarno side of Florence, where genuinely ingredient-led cooking at this price tier is rarer than the neighbourhood's reputation suggests.
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Four Seasons Hotel Firenze is Florence at palace scale: a Renaissance palazzo and former convent set around an 11-acre private garden, with frescoes, friezes, pool, spa and serious dining folded into the fabric. Its recognition from World's 50 Best Hotels and La Liste places it in the city's upper luxury tier, but the real argument is architectural rather than merely service-led.
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On the Oltrarno bank of the Arno, Hotel Lungarno is the founding property of the Ferragamo family's Lungarno Collection. Designed by Florentine architect Michele Bönan, the 63-room hotel holds a Michelin Key (2024) and a La Liste Top Hotels ranking of 93 points (2026), with the Michelin-starred Borgo San Jacopo restaurant opening directly onto views of the river and Ponte Vecchio.
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Set in a 15th-century estate along the Arno River, just 15 minutes from Ponte Vecchio by complimentary shuttle, Villa La Massa offers 51 rooms across six historic buildings on 22 acres of Tuscan parkland. A Michelin 2 Keys recipient and La Liste Top Hotels 2026 member (91 points), it occupies a distinct tier between countryside retreat and Florence city access, hard to replicate at this proximity.
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A 20-room townhouse on Piazza Santa Maria Novella, THE PLACE Firenze sits opposite Leon Battista Alberti's proto-Renaissance basilica and holds Leading Hotels of the World membership alongside a 92.5-point La Liste rating for 2026. Renovated by architect Luigi Fragola in 2021, it pitches itself against Florence's boutique-intimate tier with all-day dining built entirely around Tuscan artisanal sourcing and a Negroni masterclass rooted in the cocktail's Florentine origins.
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Set on a secluded hilltop north of Florence's historic centre, Collegio alla Querce occupies three adjacent Renaissance-era buildings, a former Jesuit seminary and two historic villas, transformed by Auberge Resorts Collection in 2023. Eighty-three rooms and suites look out over Tuscan countryside or historic courtyards, while multiple dining venues, an infinity pool, and 18 acres of gardens complete a property that reads as a country estate rather than a city hotel.
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A neoclassical villa built for Baron Oppenheim in the 1870s, Villa Cora sits above the Boboli Gardens on Florence's quieter southern edge. Forty-three rooms furnished with period antiques and Persian rugs, a year-round heated pool, and a complimentary shuttle to the city centre place it at a distinct remove from the tourist density of the historic core. Awarded two Michelin Keys in 2024 and rated 92 points on La Liste Top Hotels 2026.
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A 15th-century palazzo on Via del Corso that once housed Beatrice Portinari, Dante's muse, Palazzo Portinari Salviati operates as a Leading Hotels of the World member with 13 suites decorated in 18th-century frescoes. The Michelin-starred restaurant Atto di Vito Mollica, a Vita Nova spa, and sightlines to Brunelleschi's Dome place it among Florence's most historically grounded luxury addresses, rated 4.8 on Google from 173 reviews.
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Occupying a 15th-century Brunelleschi-designed palazzo on Piazza Ognissanti, The St. Regis Florence positions itself at the formal end of the city's luxury hotel tier. With 99 rooms dressed in Medici-period detail, a Bottega Veneta-designed suite, Forbes Four Star recognition, and a La Liste score of 93.5 points in 2026, it offers a depth of heritage and service infrastructure that few addresses in Florence match.
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A 37-room, suite-heavy property on the Arno's northern bank, owned by the Ferragamo family and listed among the Leading Hotels of the World. Portrait Firenze sits directly opposite the Ponte Vecchio, with floor-to-ceiling river views, Carrara marble bathrooms, and complimentary access to the Ferragamo museum. La Liste ranked it 98.5 points in its 2026 Top Hotels edition.
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Built around a Byzantine tower dating to the sixth century and occupying the footprint of a former medieval church, Brunelleschi Hotel sits metres from the Duomo in central Florence. The two-Michelin-starred restaurant Santa Elisabetta and a 2024 Michelin Key recognition give the property credentials that extend well beyond its location. Rooms from around $397 per night across 96 keys, with suite guests assigned a dedicated personal concierge.
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Velona's Jungle Luxury Suites occupies a singular position in Florence's boutique hotel market: four suites dressed floor-to-ceiling in animal-print upholstery, peacock-feather prints, and jungle-foliage wallpaper, yet carrying a Michelin Key (2024). At roughly $156 per night, it delivers private-house intimacy and a fully vegetarian breakfast, pet-friendly policies, and a complimentary minibar, all within walking distance of the city centre.
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Inside a 16th-century palazzo attributed to Giorgio Vasari, just off Via de' Tornabuoni, Stella d'Italia is a 24-room property assembled by designer Matteo Perduca and calligrapher Betty Soldi. Original paintings, flea-market antiques, Buon Ricordo plates, and cinema seats salvaged from the Odeon define the interiors. Rates from $284 per night place it in Florence's design-led boutique tier.
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A Michelin Key-awarded boutique in a converted 19th-century Arno-side complex, Riva Lofts Florence offers ten individually designed suites from around $181 per night. Period stone walls and arched windows coexist with concrete floors, contemporary art, and glass additions. Private entrances, kitchens in nine of the ten suites, and a courtyard pool make it one of Florence's most considered small-scale design stays.
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A Leading Hotels of the World member occupying the historic centre of Florence, Helvetia & Bristol pairs Anouska Hempel's post-renovation interiors with a Cibreo restaurant collaboration and Italy's foremost pastry chef. Its position steps from Palazzo Strozzi and the Duomo places it among the more centrally located luxury hotels in the city, with a guest rating of 4.7 across nearly 600 reviews.
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Occupying Piazza della Repubblica since 1893, Hotel Savoy anchors Florence's luxury hotel tier with 80 rooms, 30 restructured suites, and Irene restaurant serving seasonal Tuscan cooking under chef Fulvio Pierangelini. The 2018 renovations, completed in partnership with Emilio Pucci, refreshed the lobby and terrace while preserving the property's position as the city's central reference point for classic Italian hospitality. La Liste ranked it 97.5 points in 2026.
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A 16-room Renaissance villa on Florence's southern hillside, Torre di Bellosguardo holds a Michelin 1 Key (2024) and rates from $271 per night. Frescoes by Bernardino Poccetti, whose work also appears in the Pitti Palace, line the grand foyer, while the pool terrace commands one of the city's most celebrated panoramas. The walk up from the centre takes around 15 minutes, and the remove from the tourist circuit is a large part of the point.
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Ad Astra earned a Michelin Key in 2024, placing it among a select tier of Florence accommodations recognised for polished hospitality standards. For travellers seeking a considered base on the quieter, artisan-facing side of the Arno, it represents a credible alternative to the city's larger luxury operators.
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On Piazza Santa Maria Novella, the Grand Hotel Minerva occupies a 13th-century palazzo redesigned in 1957 by architect Carlo Scarpa, with 97 rooms, a rooftop pool open May through September, and a terrace restaurant serving contemporary Tuscan cuisine. Priced from around $427 per night, it sits between the rail station and the historic centre, with Via Tornabuoni's luxury shopping within a five-minute walk.
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Hotel Calimala occupies a 16th-century palazzo on Via dei Lamberti, five minutes from the Duomo, blending art deco flourishes with contemporary artwork across its public spaces. For independent luxury in central Florence, it sits in a category where heritage architecture and design coherence do more work than brand affiliation.
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A restored 15th-century aristocratic villa on the Fiesole hillside above Florence, Il Salviatino positions itself in the smaller, design-led tier of Florentine luxury accommodation, where the property's physical history, hidden frescoes, buried garden pathways, and a repurposed Roman sarcophagus, does the work that brand identity does elsewhere. Thirty-nine rooms and suites, each individually decorated, with direct views across the city's roofline to the Duomo.
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A 16th-century Florentine residence converted into a 14-room boutique property on Via degli Strozzi, Palazzo Vecchietti places guests inside the historic centre with an intimacy that larger hotels in the city cannot replicate. Rooms run from 430 square feet upward, with two full apartments for extended stays. Rated 4.8 on Google across 83 reviews.
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On Via Ghibellina, one of Florence's longest and most animated streets, Palazzo Firenze occupies a historic palace steps from the Bargello Museum and Santa Croce basilica. A member of Leading Hotels of the World, the property pairs Tuscan marble bathrooms and period-inspired interiors with the Guelfi e Ghibellini restaurant and an atmospheric piano lounge. For milestone stays in the city's cultural heart, it sits in a genuinely useful position between heritage weight and contemporary comfort.
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A 19th-century villa on Piazza Massimo d'Azeglio, Hotel Regency occupies one of Florence's more residential corners, removed from the centro storico crowds yet within easy reach of the Duomo and Sant'Ambrogio. Its history of hosting prominent Florentine figures gives it a particular civic weight that larger international-branded properties in the city do not replicate. A considered choice for travellers who want proximity to the monuments without the noise of them.
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A 16th-century palazzo on Via di Mezzo, The James Suite Hotel Firenze 1564 was built in the same year Michelangelo died and Galileo was born. Hand-painted ceiling frescoes and soaring arched ceilings set the scene, while custom contemporary furniture grounds the space in the present. For travellers who want Florence's history to be something you sleep inside, not just something you queue to see.
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Inside a 13th-century palace once home to a Medici-era diplomat, Locale Firenze operates at the serious end of Italian bar culture. Ranked #15 in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and #36 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2024), the programme pairs modernist technique with low-waste discipline and a kitchen-bar dialogue that sets it apart from Florence's broader cocktail scene.
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Located on Via di Mezzo in the Sant'Ambrogio quarter, it draws. For a city better known for Chianti than cocktails, that sustained recognition signals something deliberate happening behind the bar.
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Ranked #234 in the Top 500 Bars for 2025 and. It sits in a different competitive tier from the heritage cocktail rooms of central Florence.
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Positioned on Piazza della Signoria, Gucci Giardino sits at the intersection of Florentine heritage and contemporary cocktail craft. Ranked #31 in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and #99 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2025), the bar operates at the upper tier of Italy's competitive cocktail scene, where sourcing discipline and formal technique carry as much weight as the address.
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Ranked #295 in the World's Top 500 Bars for 2025, Santa Cocktail Club occupies a prime position on Piazza Santa Maria Novella with a program that draws on Dante-era Florentine symbolism and contemporary technique in equal measure. The result is one of the city's more considered bar programs, where Italian hospitality and craft-forward thinking share the same counter.
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One of Piazza della Repubblica's original caffè storici, Caffe Paszkowski has occupied the same arcaded corner since 1846, making it one of the oldest continuously operating bars in Florence. The terrace facing the piazza remains among the more considered spots for an aperitivo or a milestone occasion in the city.
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The recognition places it in a competitive tier alongside Italy's more discussed cocktail addresses, making it a reference point for anyone mapping Florence's serious drinking culture.
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Ranked #82 in the Top 500 Bars for 2025 and. The space channels the architectural logic of its setting, an atrium format that shapes how light, sound, and conversation move through the room.
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Sitting on Borgo Tegolaio in the neighbourhood's residential core, it draws the kind of repeat local custom that most tourist-adjacent bars never achieve.
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Giacosa on Via della Spada carries a claim few bars anywhere can match: the Negroni was mixed here for the first time, at this address, in 1815. Ranked #215 in the Top 500 Bars (2025), the bar operates at the intersection of Florentine heritage and contemporary mixology, drawing drinkers who want historical grounding alongside a well-constructed glass.
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On Piazza della Repubblica, Bar Artemisia occupies one of Florence's most historically charged addresses. Ranked 371st in the 2025 World's 50 Best Bars Top 500, it sits within the city's tightening circuit of technically serious cocktail programs, offering a precise alternative to the grand-café tradition that dominates the square.
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The bar occupies a tier defined less by cocktail innovation than by historic continuity, drawing a broad cross-section of tourists and Florentines to its terrace and gilded interior.
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Il Santino occupies a wine-bar format on Via Santo Spirito in Oltrarno, Florence's left-bank neighbourhood that sits at deliberate remove from the Duomo circuit. The draw is a serious by-the-glass list paired with small plates, in a room that rewards the kind of unhurried afternoon drinking that the neighbourhood was built for. It is the annexe to Il Latini-adjacent dining culture, done at counter scale.
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Open since 1992, Le Volpi e l'Uva occupies a small piazza just steps from the Ponte Vecchio, operating as one of Florence's most focused wine bars. The format is deliberately compact: a short roster of producer-led wines, a few well-chosen accompaniments, and the kind of unhurried afternoon pace that the city's older enoteca tradition was built around.
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The bar occupies a position in Florence's serious cocktail tier, where craft and neighbourhood character matter more than spectacle. It draws a consistent crowd on Via Dante Alighieri, a few steps from the Bargello.
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Opened in 2018 on Via degli Alfani, Vineria Sonora has become Florence's reference point for natural wine, with a selection weighted toward small Italian producers that rarely appear on conventional restaurant lists. The format is wine bar rather than restaurant, which keeps the focus sharp. Come for bottles you will not find elsewhere in the city and a room that rewards curiosity over ceremony.
Florence, Italy
Bar Berni sits on Via Gino Capponi in Florence, a useful address for reading the city’s quieter drinking culture beyond the grand hotel bars and destination cocktail rooms. With, it should be approached as a neighbourhood bar contextually rather than a trophy reservation.
Florence
Selected entries from the current guide for Florence.
Florence, Italy
On the Oltrarno side of the Arno, Marchesi de' Frescobaldi brings one of Tuscany's most consequential wine dynasties directly to a Florence address. For anyone tracing Tuscan terroir from vineyard to glass, it warrants serious attention.
Florence, Italy
The address at Località Diacceto Castellare positions it within Chianti country's quieter reaches, where smaller estates work with less commercial noise and more latitude for precision.
Florence, Italy
Fattoria La Leccia is a small organic estate in the hills around Montespertoli, where Chianti tradition is read through Sangiovese, Trebbiano Rosa, oak forest, clay soils and Alberese limestone. The draw is less spectacle than terrain: guided tastings, vineyard time, still and sparkling wines, and a quiet farm atmosphere within reach of Florence.
Florence, Italy
Frescobaldi is Florence’s wine-led Tuscan dining room tied to the Frescobaldi family, with a polished modern setting on Piazza della Signoria and a cellar identity built around the family’s labels. The appeal is not chef theatrics or tasting-menu novelty, but the way regional cooking, central Florence, and a historic Tuscan wine name meet in one smart, accessible format.
Florence, Italy
Il Grillesino is a rural Tuscan estate winery associated with Florence coverage but rooted in the Maremma near Magliano in Toscana. Its profile is built around hillside vineyards, still red wines, Morellino di Scansano and Maremma Toscana DOC context, with a quiet estate atmosphere rather than a hospitality-led spectacle.
Florence, Italy
Pieve di Campoli is a Chianti Classico estate tied to Florence’s ecclesiastical landholdings, with hillside vineyards, olive groves, cellar visits, guided tastings, cooking courses, and agriturismo-style stays around Cortine. Its appeal is less trophy-driven than terrain-driven: varied slopes, old rural training traditions, Sangiovese-led wines, and estate olive oil place it firmly in Tuscany’s mixed-farm wine culture.
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