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The twice-cooked Tuscan bread-and-bean soup, built off the previous day's minestrone, layered with stale bread, cavolo nero kale and cannellini beans, baked until the bread has dissolved into the broth.
Ribollita means 'reboiled' in Italian. The dish traces to the Tuscan peasant table, where minestrone left over from a Friday meatless dinner was thickened with stale bread on Saturday and re-baked into a denser dish. The name was canonised by 20th-century food writers including Pellegrino Artusi. Cavolo nero, the curly Tuscan kale, is the canonical green; cannellini and borlotti beans split the legume roster. The Slow Food movement enrolled ribollita in its Arca del Gusto in 1997.
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Trattoria Mario in Florence's San Lorenzo quarter has been the working lunch room next to Mercato Centrale since 1953. Kitchen leans florentine trattoria.
OrderRibollita, bistecca alla fiorentina by the etto, pappardelle al cinghiale in season.
TipQueue from 12:00 for the 12:30 opening. Closed Sunday and the whole of August. Cash only.
Trattoria da Burde in Florence's western edge has been the Gori family's working-quarter osteria since 1901, with the Friday-night dinner the only evening.
OrderThe Friday-night bistecca tasting if you can book; otherwise ribollita and trippa alla fiorentina at lunch.
TipLunch Mon-Sat; dinner Friday only. Book three weeks ahead for Friday; bus 35 from Santa Maria Novella.
Trattoria Marione in Florence's Santa Maria Novella quarter runs the unfussy lunchtime carte locals queue for, with the four pillars of Florentine cucina.
OrderRibollita, pappa al pomodoro and the bistecca alla fiorentina by the etto.
TipCash and card; queue from 12:30. Closed Sunday; lunch and dinner both seat at 12:30 and 19:30.
Trattoria La Casalinga in Florence's Oltrarno just off Piazza Santo Spirito has been the family-run home-cooking room since 1963, with the four pillars.
OrderRibollita, pappa al pomodoro and trippa alla fiorentina.
TipClosed Sunday; cash only. Lunch is calmer; dinner books up a week ahead.
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