Places in Florence

Tiny organic salotto for plant-leaning breakfast and lunch near Pitti

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

The original 2013 specialty-coffee bar minutes from Santa Croce

Florence's legendary flourless chocolate cake, since the 1980s

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

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

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

Revered since-1992 wine bar of small independent growers near Ponte Vecchio

Art-bookshop and vegetarian kitchen tucked behind Santa Croce

Tiny Lebanese saj kitchen with home-cook authenticity

Cult San Frediano craft-cocktail bar with an irreverent list

Shabby-chic neighbourhood wine bar in Le Cure

Twentieth-century and contemporary art in a former Leopoldine hospital

Old-Tuscan tavern right on Fiesole's main piazza

Florence's leading stage for international contemporary art

1928 pasticceria-cafe with Piemontese roots near Annunziata

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

Greenhouse wine bar in a riverside garden by Porta San Frediano

Florentine institution and wine cellar since 1901

Late-night neighbourhood wine room on Borgo San Frediano

Carpenter's-workshop cafe-bar on Piazza Santo Spirito with live music

1981 San Niccolo bar-bistrot with a hidden garden