Lokale in Florence

16-room design retreat over Europe's largest private garden

Michelin-starred dining in Palazzo Portinari Salviati

Florence's oldest historic cafe, founded 1733

Florence's last great enoteca, standing-room since 1880

Red-velvet, Pergola-theatre seats, the see-and-be-seen Sant'Ambrogio bistrot

Francesco Sanapo's specialty-coffee roaster on the artisan left bank

Family wine shop and tasting since 1934, beyond the tourist belt

Mid-century-art design hotel on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

Tiny Oltrarno gelateria of organic, seasonal, natural-colour gelato

Frescoed 15th-century villa retreat in the Fiesole hills

Tiny exposed-brick enoteca for small Tuscan growers and cured plates

Twenty-room townhouse hotel on Piazza Santa Maria Novella

All-day concept space: restaurant, cocktail bar, florist and design store

Panoramic Fiesole terrace with the classic view over the duomo

Café, aperitivo and culture inside a Renzo Piano-restored former prison

Art-bookshop and vegetarian kitchen tucked behind Santa Croce

Tiny Lebanese saj kitchen with home-cook authenticity

World's-50-Best cocktails inside a 13th-century palazzo

Shabby-chic neighbourhood wine bar in Le Cure

Twentieth-century and contemporary art in a former Leopoldine hospital

The world's oldest pharmacy-perfumery, in continuous craft since 1221

Marco Stabile's creative Italian table behind the Uffizi

Old-Tuscan tavern right on Fiesole's main piazza

Florence's leading stage for international contemporary art

Ferragamo-family riverside hotel with Michele Bonan's 1950s-cinema rooms

Belle-Epoque truffle-panini and Antinori wine bar since 1885

Charcoal-grilled Ottoman and Anatolian cooking, the city's credible Turkish room

Greenhouse wine bar in a riverside garden by Porta San Frediano

Working leather school and atelier inside the Santa Croce friary

Eclectic 13-room Oltrarno B&B of salvaged antiques and frescoes

Renaissance monastery hotel and the Antesi loggia restaurant above Florence

Florence's gelato dynasty, the same family since 1929

Mother-and-son counter for handmade Tuscan dishes in San Niccolo

Boutique enoteca facing Palazzo Pitti, 3,000 labels deep

1981 San Niccolo bar-bistrot with a hidden garden