‘Bars & Cafés’
Bars, cafés and pub in Florence Tuscany
Florence – Santa Maria Novella bars & cafés
La Toscana: Bars & CafésAmerini Via della Vigna Nuova 63r Phone: 055 284 941 Open 8.30am-8.30pm Mon-Sat. No credit cards. Smart but cosy with an immense display of the finest Tuscan wines available. This is a lunchtime favourite for local designer-emporium shop assistants and you can choose from sandwiches such as marinated artichoke or grilled vegetables with brie, or [...]
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Florence – Santa Croce bars & cafés
La Toscana: Bars & CafésBar La Ribotta Borgo degli Albizi 80/82 Phone: 055 234 5668 Open 9am-1am Mon-Sat. Closed 2wks Aug. No credit cards. A friendly, busy café with plenty of tables and delicious sandwiches, plus more substantial hot food and salad offerings at lunch. The seating is in alcoves so you can have a fairly peaceful meal and [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésCafféllatte Via degli Alfani 39r Phone: 055 247 8878 Open 8am-midnight Mon-Sat. No credit cards. Licensed in 1920 to sell coffee and milk beverage’, Cafféllatte still continues to supply milk around Florence. In 1984, an organic bakery was added and the current café – one tiny room kitted out with rustic wood tables and chairs [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésSan Lorenzo is right next to the Central Market of Florence, the largest produce market in Florence, and the site of the arts, crafts and souvenir market. After a day of shopping one of the best ways to restore your spent energy is to stop off for an appertivo in one of the varied bars [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésEnglish, Irish and Scottish Pubs in Florence The fact that you will find such a long list of English, Irish and Scottish pubs in in Florence is because Italians absolutely love them. Pubs are the new rage and have been for a least ten years. It is not only the Italians that enjoy the pubs [...]
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Florence – Oltrarno bars & cafés
La Toscana: Bars & CafésOltrarno Caffè Ricchi Piazza Santo Spirito 9r Phone: 055 215 864 Open: Summer 7am-1am Mon-Sat. Winter 7am-8pm Mon-Sat. Closed 1st 2wks. Jan One of the most pleasant settings for ‘al fresco’ drinking in Florence (it’s on a traffic-free piazza), this has been a popular local hangout for years and is central to life in the [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésEven if you are not in Florence you could try making an Italian cocktail and create your own aperitivo or cocktail hour at home. Below there are a list of cocktails you would be able to order in the bars of Florence. Negroni Ingredients: 1/3 Gin 1/3 Red Martini 1/3 Bitter Campari ice Mix over [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésThe Wine Culture Wine has always played an important role in Florentine life, for centuries and centuries and wine bars are most often full at lunch and aperitivo time and can be one of two types. First there are fiaschetteria, mescita or vineria, which are tiny street booths with virtually no seating, serving basic Tuscan [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésIf you are looking for that special latin feeling and feel ready to sway the night away to salsa and cha cha cha, then just take a look below: Salamanca Via Ghibellina 40r Tel: 055 234 54 52 Opening Hours: 5pm-2am Wednesday to Monday Salamanca manages to recreate a great Spanish atmosphere, this restaurant/tapas bar [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésDuomo & around Astor Caffè Piazza Duomo Phone: 055 239 9000 Open: 7am-3am Mon-Sat, 5pm-3am Sun. Closed 2wks Aug. A huge, contemporary chrome and glass bar with light flooding in from a central skylight. Perch on one of the padded bar stools for an aperitif or a freshly made veg or fruit juice, or why [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésItaly’s daily routine involves going to the bar for a coffee at least a couple of times a day however social meetings don’t end there. Another important part of an Italian’s social life involves meeting up for an aperitivo, or a pre-dinner drink and snack, after work. In the early evenings before dinner, around 6-8pm, [...]
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La Toscana: Bars & CafésCafés, bars, and gelaterie The concentration of bars and cafes in Florence is a little testament to the well known fact that Italians love coffee and part of their daily routine involves going to a local at least once a day to have a coffee- not a coffee like we know it though. The Italians [...]
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