Where to eat in Florence: the Michelin tables, then the trattorie, markets and counters that English and Italian lists name

💡 The Short Version: Enoteca Pinchiorri holds Florence’s only three Michelin stars, and five Florence restaurants hold a Bib Gourmand: Trattoria Cibrèo (Il Cibrèino), L’Ortone, Il Latini, Zeb and Da Burde. The places named by the most of the 80 English and Italian lists read are the two food markets, the Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio (26 sources) and the Mercato Centrale (24), then Cibrèo (17) and Trattoria Mario (14). Trattoria Mario is open for lunch only and takes no reservations, Il Latini’s kitchen is closed on Monday and Zeb is closed on Wednesday and Sunday evening. 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. This pass reads 80 list pages from 46 publishers, 26 in English and 20 in Italian: magazines and guides (Condé Nast Traveler, Time Out, Eater, World of Mouth, Gambero Rosso, La Cucina Italiana, Scatti di Gusto, Vanity Fair Italia), Florence food sites in both languages (Firenze Made in Tuscany, Il Blog del Marchese, Puntarella Rossa, FirenzeToday), travel blogs and cooking-class and tour operators. Counts are publishers, not pages, and the English and Italian counts are shown apart. The Michelin Guide, Gambero Rosso and Slow Food awards are printed beside the places they name. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. Trattoria Mario serves lunch only, Monday to Saturday. Il Latini’s kitchen is shut on Monday, Buca Lapi on Sunday, and Zeb on Wednesday and Sunday evening. Cibrèo’s restaurant serves lunch only on Saturday and Sunday. The Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio is shut on Sunday.

Michelin and the other awards

The Michelin Guide’s 2026 list for Florence has one three-star restaurant and six one-star restaurants in the city, with a seventh one-star restaurant, Serrae Villa Fiesole, in Fiesole (Michelin Guide). Its five Bib Gourmand restaurants in Florence are named for good food at a fair price (Michelin Guide).

Gambero Rosso’s Trattorie d’Italia 2026 gives Da Burde its top mark of three prawns (Gambero Rosso). Slow Food’s Osterie d’Italia 2026 gives its snail to Enoteca Spontanea, Leonardo Torrini and Osteria dell’Enoteca in Florence (Vetrina Toscana). Michelin’s best-of list of trattorie, updated on 14 September 2026, names Il Santo Bevitore, Il Latini, Trattoria Cibrèo “Il Cibrèino”, Zeb, Del Fagioli and Da Burde (Michelin Guide).

The places named by the most sources

The count is the number of publishers that name the place across all the lists, with the split by language.

The steak, the gelato and the street-food places have pages of their own: bistecca alla fiorentina, the best gelato in Florence and Florence street food.

Trattorie and osterie

Cibrèo

Via del Verrocchio 8r (restaurant) and Via dei Macci 122r (trattoria) · Cited by 17 sources (9 English, 8 Italian) · cibreo.com

Fabio Picchi opened the restaurant in Sant’Ambrogio on 8 September 1979 and a trattoria beside it the same day. The restaurant (dinner daily 19:00 to 22:30, lunch on Saturday and Sunday 12:30 to 14:30) prints a vitello tonnato at €24 and a Cibrèo-style raw beef at €38. The trattoria, which Michelin gives a Bib Gourmand, prints a veal tripe salad at €8 and a chicken-liver pâté at €8. Book on +39 055 234 11 00 or booking@cibreo.com: the trattoria says its seats go fast.

Trattoria Mario

Via Rosina 2r, behind the Mercato Centrale · Monday to Saturday 12:00 to 15:30 · no reservations · Cited by 14 sources (8 English, 6 Italian)

A lunch-only trattoria where the menu changes daily but the site promises the bistecca alla fiorentina, the ragù and the ribollita every day. The daily dishes run from tripe and liver on Monday to peposo, a beef stew, on Tuesday. Staff take a name at the door and tables are shared. It opens for dinner on Fridays, except in July, by phone booking on +39 055 218550 between 7:00 and 11:00.

Da Burde

Via Pistoiese 154 · about 6 km west of the Duomo · Cited by 13 sources (5 English, 8 Italian) · book at prenotazioni@daburde.it

A trattoria that dates itself to 1901. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and Gambero Rosso’s three prawns for 2026, and it is the one place in this list outside the old city.

Il Santo Bevitore and Il Santino

Via di Santo Spirito 64/66 and 60 · Cited by 10 sources each (8 English, 2 Italian) · book through ilsantobevitore.com

The restaurant and the wine bar next to it, on the Oltrarno street that runs from Piazza Santo Spirito. Michelin lists the restaurant as Selected and names it in its best-of list of trattorie. Both appear far more in English-language lists than in Italian ones.

Zeb

Via San Miniato 2r · lunch 12:30 to 15:30, dinner 19:30 to 22:30 · closed Wednesday and Sunday evening · Michelin Bib Gourmand

A gastronomia in San Niccolò, near the rose garden and the walk up to Piazzale Michelangelo. It takes bookings only for the evening, so lunch is a walk-in: phone +39 055 23 42 864.

Il Latini and Buca Lapi

For the steak, Il Latini (Bib Gourmand, kitchen closed on Monday) and Buca Lapi (a cellar in the Palazzo Antinori, closed on Sunday) are in bistecca alla fiorentina, with the per-kilo prices from each menu.

Markets and counters

Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio

Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti · Monday to Saturday 7:00 to 14:00 · closed Sunday · Cited by 26 sources (16 English, 10 Italian)

The market’s own site lists butchers, fishmongers, fruit and vegetable stalls, tripe sellers and a trattoria and a bar inside it. Twenty-six sources name it, more than any other place here, and it finishes at 14:00, so go in the morning. The L’Ortone restaurant, a Bib Gourmand, takes its name from the market square’s old life as the nuns’ kitchen garden. The square is about 400 m from Piazza Santa Croce.

Fruit and vegetable stalls at the Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio. Photo: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mercato Centrale

Piazza del Mercato Centrale, San Lorenzo · food hall on the first floor, daily 9:00 to 23:00 · Cited by 24 sources (9 English, 15 Italian)

The covered market of San Lorenzo, with a food hall above it that is open every day from 9:00 to 23:00 (mercatocentrale.it). It is about 400 m from the Duomo. The Italian lists name it far more often than the English ones do. Da Nerbone, the lampredotto and bollito counter on the ground floor, is in Florence street food.

The food hall inside the Mercato Centrale. Photo: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

All’Antico Vinaio

Via dei Neri 65, 74, 76 and 78 · daily 10:00 to 22:00 · Cited by 10 sources (5 English, 5 Italian) · allanticovinaio.com

A schiacciata sandwich shop founded in 1989, with its shops all on Via dei Neri 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, and Gambero Rosso writes of “kilometre-long queues”. More shops are in Florence street food.

Aperitivo

Locale

Via delle Seggiole 12 · Cited by 11 sources (7 English, 4 Italian) · localefirenze.it

A cocktail bar and restaurant that Michelin lists as Selected. It is the aperitivo place the English lists name most often. Bookings and contacts are on its site.

Plan the rest

For ice cream, see the best gelato in Florence. For a guided walk that eats through the markets, Florence food tours compares them with their prices. To fit meals to the sights, see 3 days in Florence and Florence in one or two days, and for the shops and restaurants at Christmas, Christmas in Florence. Where to stay in Florence compares the areas, and hotels near the Duomo lists the hotels round Trattoria Mario, Buca Lapi and Il Latini.