12 cafe rooms in Florence we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Florence | Cafe across every city.
The historic Florentine caffe is an institution, and the grand rooms ringing the centro storico carry the legacy: Caffe Gilli, Rivoire, Caffe Paszkowski and Caffe Le Giubbe Rosse all trade on marble counters and a strong espresso at the bar. The modern speciality wave runs through Ditta Artigianale, with its Santa Croce and Oltrarno rooms, and through La Menagere in San Lorenzo. Procacci 1885 in Santa Maria Novella and Caffe Cibreo over in Sant'Ambrogio round out the spread across the city.
Caffe Gilli ★ 4.4
centro-storico · Via Roma 1r, 50123 Firenze
Caffe Gilli in Florence's Piazza della Repubblica is the city's oldest cafe, opened in 1733, with the same marble counter and the original Belle Epoque.
Rivoire ★ 4.4
centro-storico · Piazza della Signoria 5r, 50122 Firenze
Rivoire in Florence has poured the city's benchmark hot chocolate at the Piazza della Signoria corner since 1872, with a chocolate-making lab in the back.
Ditta Artigianale ★ 4.5
santa-croce · Via dei Neri 32r, 50122 Firenze
Ditta Artigianale in Florence's Via dei Neri is Francesco Sanapo's flagship roastery and cafe, with single-origin filter coffees, espresso and one.
La Menagere ★ 4.2
san-lorenzo · Via de' Ginori 8r, 50123 Firenze
La Menagere in Florence's San Lorenzo is the all-day concept inside a 19th-century housewares shop, with breakfast, brunch, lunch, aperitivo and live jazz.
Caffe Cibreo ★ 4.4
sant-ambrogio · Via del Verrocchio 5r, 50122 Firenze
Caffe Cibreo in Florence's Sant'Ambrogio quarter is the all-day cafe-and-bar of the Cibreo group, with a walnut counter, daily-baked Cibreo pastries.
Caffe Paszkowski ★ 4.2
centro-storico · Piazza della Repubblica 35r, 50123 Firenze
Caffe Paszkowski in Florence's Piazza della Repubblica is the 1846 Polish-founded cafe that became the haunt of the early-20th-century literary set.
Caffe Le Giubbe Rosse ★ 4.0
centro-storico · Piazza della Repubblica 13r, 50123 Firenze
Caffe Le Giubbe Rosse in Florence's Piazza della Repubblica is the 1897 cafe that hosted Marinetti and the Futurists in the 1910s, with a daily literary.
Scudieri ★ 4.1
centro-storico · Piazza San Giovanni 19r, 50122 Firenze
Scudieri in Florence sits directly across from the Duomo's Baptistery, a 1939 cafe-pasticceria with a terrace looking onto the cathedral and a daily-rotating.
Procacci 1885 ★ 4.4
santa-maria-novella · Via de' Tornabuoni 64r, 50123 Firenze
Procacci in Florence's Via Tornabuoni shopping street is the 1885 truffle bar, with the white-tile counter, the panino tartufato and a Prosecco glass for €5.
Cantinetta da Verrazzano ★ 4.3
centro-storico · Via dei Tavolini 18r, 50122 Firenze
Cantinetta da Verrazzano in Florence's Via dei Tavolini is the bakery-and-wine-bar of the Castello da Verrazzano estate, with a wood-fired oven baking.
Ditta Artigianale Oltrarno ★ 4.4
oltrarno · Via dello Sprone 5r, 50125 Firenze
Ditta Artigianale Oltrarno in Florence's San Frediano quarter is the Sprone-corner sister room of Sanapo's flagship, with the same single-origin filter.
Santarosa Bistrot ★ 4.3
san-frediano · Lungarno di Santa Rosa, 50124 Firenze
Santarosa Bistrot in Florence's San Frediano sits inside the Arno-side park on Lungarno di Santa Rosa, an all-day cafe with a garden terrace, breakfast.