
1.5 hours
Florence Cocktail making class
Join a hands-on cocktail class in the heart of Florence. Learn mixology basics from a professional bartender, craft classic cocktails, and enjoy a tasting in a stylish...
The Lion's Fountain Irish Pub is a late-night dive bar in Santa Croce, Florence.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
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.

1.5 hours
Join a hands-on cocktail class in the heart of Florence. Learn mixology basics from a professional bartender, craft classic cocktails, and enjoy a tasting in a stylish...

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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.
TipPiazza 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.
TipAperitivo 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.
Tenax has run on Via Pratese in north Florence since September 1981 and remains the city's flagship dance room, with a large industrial floor that programs international house and techno DJs on Fridays and a signature Saturday party titled Nobody's Perfect through the autumn-to-spring season.
TipThe club sits north of the centre near Peretola airport so budget for a taxi back since the last bus home runs well before close. Capodanno on 31 December is the headline night of the calendar.
YAB opened on Via dei Sassetti a step from Piazza della Repubblica in 1979 and has been Florence's central-city dance institution ever since, with a low-ceilinged floor that programs commercial house, hip hop and pop nights across a four-day weekly schedule.
TipThe Monday hip-hop slot Smoove draws the student crowd; weekends fill from 01:00 onward. Table reservations get you past the queue but a smart dress is expected.
Space Club has held a corner of Via Palazzuolo near the station since 1969 and runs as the largest dance room in the historic centre, with two floors, a small VIP privee and a programme that swings between commercial dance, hip hop and reggaeton on weekends.
TipThe crowd skews student and young tourist on weekends. Free entry before midnight is the cheapest way in; the upstairs floor pulls the dance crowd while downstairs leans hip hop.
Otel runs a multi-format complex on the eastern fringe of the city with a restaurant, a hilltop terrace, a concert hall and a dance floor that programs party nights and live cabaret shows through the warm months, with an open-air programme that anchors the calendar from late spring to early autumn.
TipThe terrace and outdoor floor are the reason to come; the indoor rooms run the cabaret and show programming. Buses 7 and 14 stop nearby but a taxi back is easier after close.