Queer has run on Borgo Allegri a few steps from Piazza Santa Croce for around a decade as a stylish LGBTQ-friendly cocktail and pop room, programming themed weekends including karaoke and drag alongside an affordable cocktail list and a small kitchen for late plates.
Tip: Closed Mondays; the Friday and Saturday late slots run to 02:00 with pop and house. Drinks sit around 8 to 10 euros, cheaper than the central tourist strips.
Address: Borgo Allegri 9R, 50122 Firenze, Florence
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.
Vineria Sonora opened on Via degli Alfani behind the Duomo in 2018 as a natural-wine room paired with a curated vinyl rotation, with shelves stacked with records, an 81-producer organic and biodynamic wine list and a Tuesday programme that brings a winemaker into the room each week.
Tip: Sister shop Lato B across the street stocks the records, food and wine to take home. The Tuesday winemaker night is the deepest cellar dive; reservations advised on weekends.
The Club is the basement listening room beneath La Ménagère on Via de' Ginori, with a bartender-led cocktail programme, an English library, a billiard table and a small stage that runs live music several nights a week alongside a curated vinyl rotation.
Tip: The upstairs cafe and flower shop run all day; The Club is the after-dinner room from 22:00. Reservations are essential for live music slots since the basement seats only about forty.
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.
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.