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Michelin starred restaurants in Florence for 2020

Here’s our guide to Florence’s eight Michelin-starred restaurants: Enoteca Pinchiorri (3 stars); La Leggenda dei Frati (1 star); Il Palagio (1 star); Borgo San Jacopo (1 star); Ora d’Aria (1 star); La Bottega del Buon Caffè (1 star); ...

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Michelin starred restaurants in Tuscany for 2020

Italian cuisine has long since been a favourite, but in recent years chefs in Tuscany have been scaling the heights of culinary excellence. Here’s an overview to 2020 Michelin-starred restaurants in ...

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Chef Pasquale D’Ambrosio takes the helm at the Bristol Winter Garden

Stepping into the stylish lobby of the Helvetia & Bristol is always a treat, especially now that the historic hotel has been extensively renovated and the restaurant has welcomed a ...

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Relais Villa Olmo

  A lovingly restored hamlet and a genuine love of Tuscan traditions are waiting with open arms at Relais Villa Olmo Food & Wine Resort, only a 20-minute drive from ...

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“No good food in Pisa”? Take it with a grain of salt

  As frequent flyers from Pisa Airport, we tend to enjoy a plate of pasta before leaving home or, at a push, at Galileo Galilei’s overpriced first-floor restaurant. Because, as ...

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2018 Michelin starred restaurants in Tuscany

Here’s an overview to 2018 Michelin-starred restaurants in Tuscany, which vaunts three new entries: Poggio Rosso, Osteria Perillà and Cum Quibus.

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Gurdulù: a review

Gurdulù is a glamorous restaurant with gourmet aspirations in the Oltrarno’s via delle Caldaie, a few turns from piazza Santo Spirito.

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Best eats in the San Niccolò area

Feeling peckish after a wander through Florence’s calmest and perhaps prettiest downtown district? Try these hotspots.   I’ Pizzacchiere (via San Miniato, 2) Alfredo and Natascia serve up inexpensive and ...

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Where to eat: Easter 2017 in Tuscany

If you are in Florence this Easter, a word to the wise: get out of the city and into the countryside (or to the coast).

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Where to eat: Valentine’s Day 2017 in Florence

Here’s The Florentine’s guide to restaurants in Florence, Italy, this Valentine's Day.

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San Niccolò 39: a review

San Niccolò 39 restaurant in Florence: seductive and seasonal, chic and sophisticated, a meal to linger over with your loved one.

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Where to eat: New Year’s Eve in Florence, Italy

A restaurant guide to where to eat this New Year's Eve in Florence, Italy.

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Olivia: olive oil culture in the Oltrarno

Stripping back the hipster facade and going back to basics, Olivia (piazza Pitti 14) is the crispiest addition to the Oltrarno food scene.

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2018 Michelin starred restaurants in Florence

Our guide to Florence’s seven Michelin-starred restaurants (unchanged from 2017): one 3-star (Enoteca Pinchiorri) and six 1-star establishments.

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2017 Michelin starred restaurants in Tuscany

Italian cuisine has long since been a favourite, but in recent years chefs in Tuscany have been scaling the heights of culinary excellence. Here’s an overview to 2017 Michelin-starred restaurants in ...

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Essenziale by Simone Cipriani: a review

Restaurants where they forget what you ordered, sleek eateries with toilets with seas for floors and toilet paper as islands, osterie with noise levels so deafening you can’t hear yourself ...

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New restaurant openings in Florence, October 2016

Florence’s restaurant scene goes fish and EVO mad this October with a couple of new openings worth trying out: I’Lisca and Olivia.   A spin-off of the no-frills seafood success ...

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Il Bacher: a foodie stop on the way to Parma

  Our restaurant has a long history, dating to the time when the Duchy of Parma was ruled by Marie Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, and ...

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Vivo: the freshest of fish

First detach the oyster from the shell using a knife and never a fork. Slide the mollusc onto your tongue and let it rest there for a few seconds. Push ...

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Valeria Piccini

A sought-after destination for the likes of Queen Victoria, the St. Regis Florence is now more than just a luxurious place to stay. The Art Deco-style winter garden at one of Florence’s leading hotels has opened its doors to Valeria Piccini, one of Tuscany’s

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Vito Mollica

Walking into the sumptuous surroundings of Palazzo della Gherardesca is always a soothing and pleasurable experience, but it is all the more so when one is about to meet the Four Seasons Florence’s Michelin-starred chef, Vito Mollica. Modest in his success and amiable with all, Basilicata-born

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