Best Tasting Menus in Florence
Ora d'Aria in San Niccolo holds a Michelin Plate and runs two tasting menus, a meat menu and a fish menu, from chef Marco Stabile, using Tuscan ingredients in creative Italian cooking. Degusteria Italiana in San Niccolo holds a Michelin Plate and builds its tasting menus around cheese, truffles, and game. Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli holds a Michelin star and cooks a tasting menu from its own organic farm and gardens, with a wine list that reaches rare 1980s and 90s labels.
Ciblèo in Ricorboli serves Tuscan, Japanese, and Korean cooking inspired by kaiseki, with 16 seats, from chef Fabio Picchi. Santa Elisabetta in San Niccolo serves a tasting menu and a prix fixe of seafood with Campanian roots, and it holds two Michelin stars. Konnubio in Santo Spirito holds a Michelin Plate, and its wine list is organized by grape variety and ranges well beyond Tuscany.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Akira Back
Akira Back brings Japanese-Korean fusion into Florence, a city where dining habits are still shaped by trattorie, markets, and Tuscan seasonality. The interest here is the contrast: kaiseki’s discipline of sequence and restraint meeting a city better known for bistecca, ribollita, and wine-led meals.
Atto di Vito Mollica
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
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.
Borgo San Jacopo
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
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.
Cestello Firenze
On the south bank of the Arno in the Oltrarno quarter, Cestello Firenze occupies a piazza framed by the domed church of San Frediano in Cestello, one of the more atmospheric settings for serious seafood in the city. Holding a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, it runs a dual-track format: a creative menu and a fish counter where guests select their own catch.
Chic Nonna di Vito Mollica
Deep wine list
Chic Nonna di Vito Mollica on Via del Corso brings Tuscan trattoria warmth to central Florence under the direction of chef Vito Mollica, who also leads the contemporary Atto di Vito Mollica.9 across 282 reviews, it positions itself as a neighbourhood-anchored Italian table with the credibility of serious culinary lineage behind it.
Ciblèo
Ciblèo occupies a quiet address on Via Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence's Santa Croce quarter, positioning itself within the city's serious but understated dining tier. The kitchen works within Tuscan culinary tradition while the room's restrained character keeps focus on what arrives at the table. For visitors piecing together Florence's fine-dining map, it merits attention alongside the neighbourhood's broader offer.
Cibrèo Caffè
Cibrèo Caffè belongs to Florence’s everyday dining register rather than its formal tasting-menu circuit: central, street-facing, and tied to the city’s habit of making serious food feel conversational. Read it against nearby trattorie, wine rooms, and newer contemporary rooms, and its value is cultural as much as culinary: a caffè format that keeps Tuscan appetite close to the pavement.
Cibrèo Ristorante
Cibrèo has anchored Florentine trattoria dining in the Sant'Ambrogio neighbourhood for decades, earning consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 under chef Oscar Severini. The kitchen works from a classically Tuscan framework, without pasta on the menu, a deliberate constraint that defines its identity within the city's broader dining scene.
Cuculia
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.
Degusteria Italiana
Deep wine list
A short walk from the Uffizi, Degusteria Italiana takes a focused approach to Italian ingredients that most restaurants treat as supporting players: cheese, truffle, and game form the entire creative framework here. The result is a specialist menu with genuine editorial purpose, holding.
Enoteca Pinchiorri
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
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.
Fuor d’Acqua
Deep wine list
Ranked 136th in Opinionated About Dining's Classical Europe list for 2024 and recommended the year prior, this late-opening address draws a loyal crowd that returns for the fish rather than the fanfare. Dinner runs from 8pm to 2am, six nights a week.
Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
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.
Gunè San Frediano
A Michelin Plate-recognised gastronomic restaurant in Florence's Oltrarno district, Gunè San Frediano bridges the culinary traditions of Basilicata and Tuscany in a small, focused setting. it occupies a distinct tier among Florence's contemporary dining options, offering creative, carefully presented plates that reward occasion dining.
Il Gusto di Xinge
The room's brown tones and blue accents signal the same cross-cultural ambition as the cooking. Among Florence's Michelin-recognised restaurants, it occupies a clearly distinct position: the city's only Chinese-led contemporary kitchen in that tier.
Il Palagio
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Io Osteria Personale
Deep wine list
On Borgo San Frediano, Io Osteria Personale occupies the creative end of Florence's restaurant scene with a €€ price point that undercuts most of its Oltrarno peers. For diners who want something other than ribollita and bistecca, this address is worth the short walk across the Arno.
Konnubio
Deep wine list
On Via dei Conti in central Florence, Konnubio holds a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025), drawing a local and visitor crowd to its tasting menus built around meat, fish, and vegetables. The wine list, organised by grape variety and ranging well beyond Tuscany, gives the room a credibility that extends past the kitchen. Book the small table on the step early; it goes fast.
L'Insolita Trattoria Tre Soldi
A Michelin Plate recipient in Florence's creative dining tier, L'Insolita Trattoria Tre Soldi sits at the intersection of trattoria tradition and contemporary technique. For visitors tracking Florence's evolution beyond red-sauce classics, this is a considered stop.
La Buona Novella
On Piazza Santa Maria Novella, La Buona Novella places Tuscan cooking in one of Florence's most historically charged settings. The kitchen works within a tradition that prizes provenance over invention, drawing on the DOP-certified ingredients and artisan networks that define serious regional Italian cooking.
La Leggenda dei Frati
Deep wine list
Housed within the Villa Bardini museum complex on the southern slope of the Oltrarno, La Leggenda dei Frati earns a Michelin Plate for creative cooking grounded in Italian culinary tradition and sustainable sourcing. Chef Filippo Saporito runs multiple menus, including a vegetarian option, and in summer the terrace frames a view toward Santa Croce that makes this one of Florence's more considered settings for a milestone meal.
La Ménagère
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.
Luca's by Paulo Airaudo
1 Michelin star
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.
Nugolo
A Michelin Plate-recognised contemporary restaurant on Via della Mattonaia, Nugolo sits at Florence's accessible end of serious cooking. The kitchen runs on seasonal sourcing, turning market-fresh ingredients into dishes with enough creative reach to earn consecutive Michelin recognition in 2024 and 2025. An open kitchen, colourful interior, and engaged front-of-house team make it one of the city's more approachable entries into ingredient-led contemporary cuisine.
Ora d'Aria
Deep wine list
Positioned a short walk from the Uffizi in the heart of Florence's historic centre, Ora d'Aria holds a Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining Classical Europe ranking, placing it in the tier just below the city's starred rooms. Chef Marco Stabile runs two tasting menus, one meat, one fish, with creative Italian cooking that draws selectively on Tuscan ingredients without being constrained by regional tradition.
Pitti Gola e Cantina
Deep wine list
Sitting directly opposite Palazzo Pitti in the Oltrarno, Pitti Gola e Cantina confounds the expectations that come with its address. The tourist-facing location conceals a serious wine bar and Tuscan kitchen that draws a local crowd rather than repelling one. It is one of Florence's more instructive cases of a venue outperforming its postcode.
Santa Elisabetta
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
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.
Saporium Firenze
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
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.
Planning tasting menus in Florence
- Which tasting-menu restaurants hold Michelin stars?
- Restaurants on this list with Michelin stars for 2026 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.
- Which tasting menus follow a single theme?
- Ora d'Aria in San Niccolo runs a meat tasting menu and a fish tasting menu under chef Marco Stabile. Degusteria Italiana in San Niccolo builds tasting menus around cheese, truffles, and game. Saporium Firenze in Ricorboli cooks its tasting menu from its own organic farm and gardens. La Leggenda dei Frati in San Niccolo includes a vegetarian tasting menu from chef Filippo Saporito.
- Which tasting menus use cuisines other than Tuscan trattoria cooking?
- Ciblèo in Ricorboli serves a Tuscan, Japanese, and Korean tasting menu inspired by kaiseki, in a 16-seat room, from chef Fabio Picchi. Il Gusto di Xinge in San Jacopino serves Chinese dim sum and bao with Italian ingredients, and holds a Michelin Plate. Akira Back in Santa Maria Novella serves modern Japanese cooking with Korean influences, and holds a Michelin Plate. Gunè San Frediano in San Frediano serves Lucanian and Tuscan tasting menus, and holds a Michelin Plate.