The 10 best wine bars and restaurants in Florence 2024
Florence is not only a city famous for its rich cultural life, the Ponte Vecchio bridge and the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore – it is also a vibrant wine city with a lot to offer every kind of wine lover. Here Åsa Johansson, Star Wine List's Tuscany ambassador, has selected her favourite wine spots in the city.
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Phone: +39 055 317206
Address: Via Pistoiese, 154, Firenze
This historical trattoria is off the beaten track and in one of the less romantic parts of Florence, close to the city airport. Still, wine and food lovers from all over Tuscany and other parts of the country try to come here as often as possible. The current generation, the two brothers Paolo and Andrea Gori, have kept everything as it once was. They still sell tobacco at the entrance, and prosciuttos hang from the ceiling. The food is rustic, and the wine list is sophisticated. Paolo is the chef, and Andrea is one of Italy's most renowned sommeliers and wine writers and a prominent expert...
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Phone: +39 055 242777
Address: Via Ghibellina, 87, Firenze
Enoteca Pinchiorri, the creation of Giorgio Pinchiorri and Annie Féolde, is one of Italy's eleven restaurants with three stars in the Michelin Guide. What makes Enoteca Pinchiorri even more unique is the incredible wine cellar that the couple have created over the last fifty years. A cellar that today contains over 60,000 bottles. In 2020 around 2,500 labels were sold on auction for 3.3 million euros. This is a Mecca for anyone looking for rarities, old vintages, or wines no longer made from the most prestigious wine regions in the world. The director Alessandro Tomberli and team serve the w...
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Phone: +39 055 049 8258
Address: Via Maggio, 61r, Firenze
A new entry on the Florentine wine scene from 2022 is Enoteca Spontanea, near Piazza Santo Spirito, in the southern part of Florence called Oltrarno. The Enoteca, run by the siblings Nicola and Irene, offers a fun and thoughtful selection of natural wines, ranging from well-known labels to less known smaller producers. The interior is simple but welcoming giving a clear message that here the focus lays on the food and wine. At Enoteca Spontanea, it is also possible to have a simple but tasty meal made by Irene. She makes Tuscan cuisine with a French touch and the dishes are tasty and elegant...
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Phone: +39 055 388 0177
Address: Borgo Ognissanti, 25 Rosso, Firenze
The Bruni brothers' restaurant and wine bar is elegant with white linen tablecloth and the service friendly and welcoming. The creative cuisine follows the seasons and Enoteca Bruni source the ingredients from their own vegetable garden and local food artisans. The cellar has a wide assortment of over 3,000 wine labels, including many iconic brands in the panorama of natural wines. The wine list is updated constantly, and it is easy to make new discoveries here. The bottles not only include Italy but also France, Slovenia, Georgia, Belgium, Spain, and Australia.
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Phone: +39 055 230 2820
Address: Via Santo Spirito, 60/R, Firenze
Il Santino, a cosy wine bar in central Florence, is located in the Oltrarno district, on the other side of the Arno River and a bit away from the most prominent and touristic parts of Florence. The wine bar is small, with light walls, vaulted ceilings, and an antique bar counter in dark wood where the highchairs are highly sought after, exactly as the few small tables that fill up quickly. The wine list is long, most of the wines are Italian and artisanal. They are served combined with delicious small dishes, cheese and charcuteries. There are also various Italian artisanal beers to choose f...
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Phone: +39 055 26261
Address: Borgo Pinti, 99, Firenze
Nestled in the historic centre of the city of Florence, in one of the city's most renowned and well-known hotels - the Four Seasons Hotel - there is a restaurant that presents the most correct and essential definition of luxury: exclusivity. Chef Paolo Lavezzini runs the one-Michelin-star restaurant Il Palagio, while one of Italy's most respected sommeliers, Walter Meccia, created the wine list. Roman by birth and Tuscan by adoption, in 2010, he landed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence. Here, he has built a balanced wine list with a strong identity, becoming one of Italy's most successfu...
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Phone: +39 055 239 8132
Address: Piazza dei Rossi, 1R, Firenze
If you are curious about wine, you will have a good time at Le Volpi e l'Uva. Riccardo Comparino and his colleague Ciro Beligni and oenologist Emilio Monechi started Le Volpi e L'Uva in 1992. "We lacked a wine bar in Florence where you could try affordable, high-quality wines that reflect a certain terroir - so we decided to open one ourselves," says Riccardo. The three owners have a great talent for finding out the latest, and often the stars of tomorrow, before anyone else. It is not strange that this is the meeting point for wine people not only in Florence but, I would say, in Tuscany....
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Phone: +39 055 389 7347
Address: Via di Terzollina, 3/R, Firenze
La Bottega di Parigi is a restaurant and a sunny island outside the gates of Florence, with an elegant, yet homely, atmosphere. The menu includes land and sea dishes, and the cuisine skillfully mixes Tuscan and French traditions. On each table is a bouquet of flowers; the chairs are lined with a handcrafted fabric with a 1960s texture. Landlady is Mihaela Ursu, and she does have a talent for details, from the furnishings to the dishes to the scenographic wine list written entirely by hand and full of literal references. The wine list is extensive and fun, with many Italian and non-Italian ar...
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Phone: +39 055 212704
Address: Piazza de' Pitti, 16, Firenze
It is easy to think that Pitti Gola e Cantina is a tourist trap located opposite the well-visited Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens. But it's the other way around. Here they serve excellent Tuscan dishes made with the most delicious ingredients while the three owners help to choose the wine to go with it. And there is plenty of wine; down in the cellar, there are more than three thousand labels to choose from. Here you can select different tasting menus, discover older vintages of Chianti and Italian sparkling wines, or take a tour of Italy – and again – it is not a tourist trap but genui...
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Phone: +39 333 199 9093
Address: Via degli Alfani, 39 r, Firenze
This wine bar opened in 2018 and is the spot in Florence that focuses on natural wines, mostly from Italy. This is the place to go if you are interested in small wine producers that most people have never heard of. The young owners have been in the wine business for a long time and opened the bar out of pure passion. Vineria Sonora is located on the busy Via degli Alfani just behind il Duomo, Florence's impressive cathedral. Inside the bar, the noise of the cars and scooters outside fades away and is replaced by wonderful vintage music played from worn vinyl records. A bonus is the very know...
