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💡 The Short Version: The Florentine street food is lampredotto, the fourth stomach of the cow in a roll with a green sauce, at about €4 to €6 a sandwich, and schiacciata, a flat oily bread filled like a sandwich. For lampredotto, the lists name the Trippaio del Porcellino (11 sources), Da Nerbone inside the Mercato Centrale (9) and Pollini at Sant’Ambrogio (7). For schiacciata, All’Antico Vinaio is open daily 10:00 to 22:00 on Via dei Neri and has queues, and Retrobottega serves from 9:15. The Mercato Centrale food hall is open daily 9:00 to 23:00. Or book a guide: the Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guidead is from €42 for 2.5 hours.
📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. The lampredotto and schiacciata counts come from the 80 English and Italian list pages read for where to eat in Florence: Devour Tours, Firenze Made in Tuscany, Cookist, Gambero Rosso, La Cucina Italiana, Foodzilla, Il Giornale del Cibo and others. Counts are publishers, with the English and Italian figures shown apart. How the guides are made
⚠️ The stands close in the afternoon. The Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio is open Monday to Saturday 7:00 to 14:00 and shut on Sunday, and its stands go with it.
Lampredotto
Lampredotto is the abomasum, the fourth stomach of the cow, sold by the trippai, the tripe vendors. Cookist says it is served in a roll, a semelle, dipped in the broth it was cooked in, with the chopped meat cut to order, and that the sauce is either green (parsley, capers and anchovies) or hot with chilli. Cookist puts the price of a sandwich at about €4 and Devour Tours at €5 to €6 (Cookist, Devour Tours).
A lampredotto panino: sliced tripe in a soft roll. Photo: Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The stands the lists name:
| Stand | Where | Sources | English | Italian |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trippaio del Porcellino | Piazza del Mercato Nuovo | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| Da Nerbone | Mercato Centrale, ground floor | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| I’ Trippaio di San Frediano | Piazza dei Nerli | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| L’Antico Trippaio | Piazza dei Cimatori | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Lupen e Margo | Via dell’Ariento | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| Tripperia Pollini | Via dei Macci 126 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio | Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti | 7 | 3 | 4 |
Trippaio del Porcellino
Piazza del Mercato Nuovo, by the Porcellino fountain · Cited by 11 sources (5 English, 6 Italian)
A stall that Cookist says has passed from generation to generation, with Orazio as its face since he beat the chef Rubio on a television programme. Cookist calls the bread tasty and the lampredotto well cooked and full of flavour.
Da Nerbone
Mercato Centrale, ground floor · Cited by 9 sources (4 English, 5 Italian)
A crowded counter with white and blue tiles inside the market. Cookist says the lampredotto comes in the roll dipped in broth or, if the crowd allows, on a plate at the tables facing the counter. It also sells bollito, boiled meat.
Tripperia Pollini
Via dei Macci 126, Sant’Ambrogio · Cited by 7 sources (2 English, 5 Italian)
Cookist calls Sergio Pollini a legend of the quarter: he has worked for almost thirty years, with his son Pier Paolo, from a trailer near the market, and a queue of regulars forms at lunch. Go before the market closes at 14:00.
L’Antico Trippaio
Piazza dei Cimatori · Cited by 7 sources (4 English, 3 Italian)
A kiosk that has kept the tradition for over 60 years, first with an uncle and for about twenty years with the brothers Maurizio and Roberto. Cookist rates its green sauce, made from 12 different vegetables, as the strength of the stand.
I’ Trippaio di San Frediano
Piazza dei Nerli · Cited by 8 sources (4 English, 4 Italian)
An Oltrarno stand in San Frediano where the lampredotto comes in the roll, on a plate, stewed with tomato and beans, or stewed with leeks. Cookist says the sandwiches start at €3.
Il Magazzino
Piazza della Passera 2/3 · Cited by 10 sources (4 English, 6 Italian)
A tripe and lampredotto osteria in the Oltrarno, the sit-down option among the stands.
Schiacciata and sandwiches
Schiacciata is a flat, salty, olive-oiled Tuscan bread, split and filled with cured meats, cheese and sauces.
Sheets of schiacciata in a Florence bakery. Photo: Lianguanlun, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
All’Antico Vinaio
Via dei Neri 65, 74, 76 and 78 · daily 10:00 to 22:00 · Cited by 7 sources (3 English, 4 Italian) · allanticovinaio.com
Founded in 1989, with shops all along Via dei Neri, near Piazza della Signoria, and others at Piazza San Marco and Santa Maria Novella station. The site lets you order online and choose where to collect. Il Giornale del Cibo reports queues of more than half an hour in the sun (Il Giornale del Cibo), and Gambero Rosso writes of “kilometre-long queues”. On 19 March 2026 the city council, the Comune, announced that no new food-service licences may be opened or transferred in Via dei Neri and Borgo San Lorenzo (la Nazione).
Lo Schiacciavino
Via G. Verdi 6/R, Santa Croce, and Via Gioberti · Cited by 4 sources (3 English, 1 Italian) · schiacciavino.it
A schiacciata shop and wine bar that opened in 2013 and now has two addresses in the centre. Each day brings a special schiacciata, and the shop sells its own red (90% Sangiovese, 10% Merlot), a Plus and a white, which are poured by the glass with a board of cured meats.
Retrobottega
Piazza dei Cimatori 5r · Sunday to Thursday 9:15 to 22:30, Friday and Saturday 9:15 to 1:00 · Cited by 4 sources (2 English, 2 Italian) · retrobottegafirenze.com
A bun, schiacciata and cicchetti bar between Dante’s house, the Uffizi and Piazza della Signoria. The Sloppy Rob is a shredded-beef bun, and La Bambola is a schiacciata with mortadella, pistachio pesto and lime zest.
Others the lists name
| Place | Where | Sources | English | Italian |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’ Girone de’ Ghiotti | Via dei Cimatori 23 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Schiacciamatta | Borgo la Croce 68r | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Semel | Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti 44r | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| La Fettunta | Via dei Cerchi 19r | 3 | 2 | 1 |
The two markets
The Mercato Centrale in San Lorenzo has a food hall on its first floor, open daily 9:00 to 23:00 (mercatocentrale.it). The Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio in Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti is open Monday to Saturday 7:00 to 14:00, shut on Sunday, and is where Il Trippaio di Sant’Ambrogio sells lampredotto and a fried panzerotto filled with it. Both are in where to eat in Florence.
Tripe and lampredotto on a counter at the Mercato Centrale. Photo: George M. Groutas, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Street food tours
Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guide
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Florence: Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guidead is a small-group walk with a local guide through traditional Tuscan food, a local market and the Duomo area. The listing is in English.
Street Food Walking Tour with Wine
From €48.60 · 2.5 hours · 1,098 reviews
Florence: Street Food Walking Tour with Winead adds the Cathedral and the Ponte Vecchio to the tastings and the local wine.
Old City Street Food Tour and Guided Sightseeing
From €44 · 2.5 hours · 288 reviews
Florence Old City Street Food Tour and Guided Sightseeingad takes in the Duomo, Santa Croce and the markets, with tastings of pasta, wine, gelato, cantucci with Vin Santo, focaccia and salami.
For the other food walks and the cooking classes, see Florence food tours. For ice cream, see the best gelato in Florence, and for the steak, bistecca alla fiorentina.
Plan the rest
The stands and shops are within a few minutes of the sights: see 3 days in Florence and Florence in one or two days. Hotels near the Duomo lists the hotels close to the Mercato Centrale and Via dei Neri, and where to stay in Florence compares the areas. The best time to visit Florence gives the weather by month.
Common questions
What is lampredotto?
The fourth stomach of the cow, the abomasum, simmered in broth, chopped and served in a bread roll, usually with salsa verde, a green sauce of parsley, capers and anchovies. Cookist says the roll is often dipped in the broth. A sandwich costs about €4 according to Cookist and €5 to €6 according to Devour Tours.
Where can I eat lampredotto in Florence?
At the stands the lists name: Trippaio del Porcellino in Piazza del Mercato Nuovo, Da Nerbone inside the Mercato Centrale, Tripperia Pollini on Via dei Macci, L'Antico Trippaio in Piazza dei Cimatori and I' Trippaio di San Frediano in Piazza dei Nerli. Il Magazzino serves it sitting down.
What is schiacciata?
A flat, oily Tuscan bread, split and filled. The shops on this page sell it as a sandwich, from All'Antico Vinaio's shops on Via dei Neri to the two Lo Schiacciavino shops.
What are the opening hours of All'Antico Vinaio?
Daily 10:00 to 22:00 at its shops on Via dei Neri at numbers 65, 74, 76 and 78, according to its site. It also has shops at Piazza San Marco and Santa Maria Novella station, and you can order online and choose where to collect.
Is the Mercato Centrale worth visiting?
It is the covered market of San Lorenzo with a food hall on the first floor, open every day from 9:00 to 23:00. It is about 400 m from the Duomo, and 24 sources name it.
Is there a street-food tour in Florence?
Yes. The most-reviewed on GetYourGuide is the Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guide, from €42 for 2.5 hours, with 1,947 reviews.
