Combo Social Club runs an east-side cultural space on Via Mannelli near the Campo di Marte station, programming live music sets, vinyl DJ nights, themed evenings such as Notte Blu and Outer Space Live, alongside a daytime cafe and a programme of courses and workshops.
Tip: Membership at the door is the standard entry; the DJ programme leans toward techno and electronic weekends, with live music midweek. Reservation via WhatsApp on +39 353 408 2377.
Address: Via Mannelli 2, 50136 Firenze, Florence
Move On runs a vinyl-record-shop pub hybrid on Piazza San Giovanni in the shadow of the Battistero, with Tuscan cold cuts and pecorino plates at the back, a selected beer list at the bar and a record rack of new releases, second-hand vinyl and rarities along the wall.
Tip: Tuesday to Friday opens at 10:00 and runs to 01:00, Saturday opens late; Monday closed. The window seat with the Duomo sightline is the seat to ask for.
Volume occupies an 1887 artisanal-workshop building on Piazza Santo Spirito with mismatched flea-market furniture, sculpted wood-carving relics from its hat-block past and a long aperitivo cadence that turns into live music and cocktails as the piazza fills late.
Tip: Aperitivo daily from 18:30 with the buffet included around 10 euros. The piazza tables outside are the seats in summer; live music slots are several nights a week.
The Lion's Fountain has run on Borgo degli Albizi near Piazza San Pier Maggiore since 1995 as one of the oldest Irish pubs in town, with a spacious outdoor sidewalk, seven HD screens inside for live sport, a Guinness-led tap list and a kitchen that runs burgers and pub food.
Tip: Friday and Saturday run to 02:30; the outdoor crowd holds the small square through the late hours. Big football and rugby fixtures pack the inside rooms.
Dolce Vita has held a corner of Piazza del Carmine since 1985 as one of the Oltrarno's defining late-night cocktail rooms, with a long-running aperitivo cadence that turns into a Friday DJ floor and a bistro kitchen by Japanese chef Saeko Okada for a Tuscan-fusion menu through the week.
Tip: Piazza tables fill from 19:00 onward in summer; Friday's DJ programme is the dance slot, weekends run later than the schedule suggests. Cocktails sit around 10 euros.
Caffè Sant'Ambrogio has anchored the small square in front of the Sant'Ambrogio church for more than thirty years as the neighbourhood's local, with sidewalk tables across from the medieval church wall, a deep enoteca list, an aperitivo buffet and a low-lit indoor room that runs music after 22:00.
Tip: Aperitivo with the buffet runs from around 18:30; the piazza tables in summer are the seats to ask for. The room holds the square past midnight and books few but holds many.
Kitsch holds a corner of Viale Antonio Gramsci just inside the old viali ring with gold-and-velvet furnishings, soft lighting and a daily apericena that runs the cheapest serious aperitivo buffet inside the centre, paired with a long cocktail list and a programme that pulls a student-heavy crowd late.
Tip: Apericena runs 18:00 to 22:00 around 12 to 15 euros for buffet plus a cocktail. The room peaks past midnight on weekends; reservations help on graduation nights.