Beef tripe slow-cooked with tomato, onion, celery and parsley, served with grated Parmigiano on top: the inland-Tuscan answer to lampredotto, a sit-down dinner rather than a lunchtime panino.
Trippa alla fiorentina traces to the same medieval Mercato Vecchio butcher tradition as lampredotto, but graduated from cart to plate by the 17th century, served at the Tuscan family table as a Friday-meatless dinner alternative. The tomato came late, after the Columbian Exchange, but was firmly anchored in the recipe by Artusi's 1891 cookbook. The Florentine version differs from the Roman by being saucier and from the Bolognese by lacking pancetta.
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Cibreo Trattoria ★ 4.6
sant-ambrogio · Via dei Macci 122r, 50122 Firenze
Cibreo Trattoria in Florence's Sant'Ambrogio quarter is Fabio Picchi's no-pasta trattoria, the casual side of the Cibreo group. The polpettine and the pappa al pomodoro run the menu since 1989.
Trattoria Sostanza ★ 4.5
santa-maria-novella · Via del Porcellana, 25/r, 50123 Firenze
Trattoria Sostanza in Florence's Santa Maria Novella quarter has cooked the same bistecca and butter chicken on a coal grill since 1869. Two seatings, one menu, six communal tables.
Trattoria da Burde ★ 4.4
campo-di-marte · Via Pistoiese 154, 50145 Firenze
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 service and a daily lunch carte for locals.
Trattoria La Casalinga ★ 4.1
oltrarno · Via dei Michelozzi 9r, 50125 Firenze
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 of cucina povera at €10 a primo.