Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Florence
Three restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence: Il Palagio in Le Cure, Atto di Vito Mollica in San Niccolo, and Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo. Enoteca Pinchiorri in San Niccolo holds the Grand Award and three Michelin stars, with contemporary Italian cooking that also draws on French traditions. Atto di Vito Mollica's cellar runs to 5,400 bottles with particular depth in Burgundy, Champagne, and Piedmont.
Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura keeps nearly 700 selections, weighted toward Tuscany, Burgundy, and Champagne. Borgo San Jacopo in Santo Spirito holds a cellar of over 800 labels. Cucina in Giardino Torrigiani holds the Award of Excellence, and wine director Tanner Scarr oversees the list beside a Tuscan menu and a Neapolitan-style pizzeria. Il Santo Bevitore in Santo Spirito pours natural wine. Cantinetta Antinori in Santo Spirito pours Antinori estate wines with traditional Tuscan cooking.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
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.
Cantinetta Antinori
Deep wine list
Cantinetta Antinori occupies the ground floor of the Palazzo Antinori on one of Florence's most quietly commanding piazzas, operating as the public dining room of one of Tuscany's oldest wine dynasties. The menu holds close to Tuscan tradition, and the wine list draws directly from Antinori estate production across multiple regions. It is the kind of address that rewards the visitor who already knows what they want.
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.
Coquinarius Fiesole
Deep wine list
It sits in a different register from Florence's Michelin-starred tier, offering traditional Tuscan cuisine without the formality or price premium of the city's trophy tables.
Cucina
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
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.
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.
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.
Il Santo Bevitore
Deep wine list
On the Oltrarno side of Florence, Il Santo Bevitore has spent years refining what a serious Tuscan trattoria looks like at an accessible price point. Classic dishes like pappa al pomodoro and cured hams anchor a menu that occasionally steps into contemporary territory, backed by a Michelin Plate and a 2025 OAD Casual Europe ranking of #25. The Santino delicatessen next door extends the experience beyond the table.
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.
La Bottega di Parigi
Deep wine list
Set just outside the historic centre of Florence on Via di Terzollina, La Bottega di Parigi occupies a quieter register than the city's formal dining rooms. The kitchen crosses land and sea, drawing on both Italian tradition and French influence to produce a menu that moves between the familiar and the considered. The atmosphere reads as elegant without being stiff, homely without sacrificing intention.
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.
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.
Ristorante Frescobaldi Firenze
Deep wine list
Among Florence's formal restaurant tier, it occupies a middle ground between destination fine dining and accessible Florentine hospitality, with a wine program anchored in the Frescobaldi estate's long viticultural history across some of Tuscany's most respected appellations.
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 restaurants for wine lovers in Florence
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- On this list, Enoteca Pinchiorri in San Niccolo holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award. Il Palagio in Le Cure, Atto di Vito Mollica in San Niccolo, and Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo hold Best of Award of Excellence. Cucina in Giardino Torrigiani holds the Award of Excellence. Those are the five Wine Spectator awards on this list.
- Which cellar sizes are stated on this list?
- Atto di Vito Mollica in San Niccolo holds 5,400 bottles with particular depth in Burgundy, Champagne, and Piedmont. Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in San Niccolo runs to nearly 700 selections, weighted toward Tuscany, Burgundy, and Champagne. Borgo San Jacopo in Santo Spirito keeps an exceptional cellar of over 800 labels, and a sommelier leads that list.
- Which restaurants pour natural wine or estate wine?
- Il Santo Bevitore in Santo Spirito pours natural wine, with a sommelier and a Michelin Plate. Cantinetta Antinori in Santo Spirito pours wines from Antinori estate production with traditional Tuscan trattoria cooking, from Palazzo Antinori, where it has operated since 1957. Ristorante Frescobaldi Firenze in San Niccolo pours Frescobaldi family wines with Tuscan steakhouse cooking and a sommelier.
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