Best coffee in Firenze?
Before travelling to Firenze, I googled around what place would serve the best Cappucino for more picky customers. When reading other blogs, Italian seem to have another philosophy for drinking coffee than the third wave coffee culture, where taste and flavour is everything. Nowadays still a cup of coffee in Italy is a drink that everyone should be able to afford. The barista has to be fast and customers usually only stand at the coffee bar for their 5 minutes breakfast or break sipping their coffee. Noone there will walk around with a take out Starbucks or whatever paper coffee cup around the streets except he or she is not Italian.
Back to my actual topic: I found my personal best coffee in Firenze at an unexpected place. It was on the second floor of el mercato, the city's market. The place is quite new with lots of reasonably priced food stalls, free toilet and fresh food. Eataly selling souvenirs from Tuscany like olive oil, soap or pasta is also inside. The cappucino was only 1.5 euro from a rarely in Italy seen La Marzocco (can be found in any Vienna's third wave coffee shops now) machine and the taste was fantastic. You can also buy some bread or pastries from the bakery opposite and enjoy the food together without cover charges! Apart from that I had the best caprese on another day at the cheese stall there. Everything is fresh and even the steak is reasonably priced. When I go back to Firenze, I will definitely visit the venue again. It's clean and reasonably priced. Dinner starts at 7 pm though, so if you are hungry before that time, try it with cheese or bread. Breakfast is really recommended too. I did not try the ice-cream, although someone on tripadvisor gave a good review.
Another cheap and good coffee was at the library near the Duomo that is often frequented by the students there. You get a great photo angle of Duomo from the cafe terrace too.
Enjoy your trip!
Update, just found this page: http://sprudge.com/ditta-artiginale-specialty-coffee-florence-italy.html
Ditta Artiginale seems to be the place to go for good coffee. ;)
Back to my actual topic: I found my personal best coffee in Firenze at an unexpected place. It was on the second floor of el mercato, the city's market. The place is quite new with lots of reasonably priced food stalls, free toilet and fresh food. Eataly selling souvenirs from Tuscany like olive oil, soap or pasta is also inside. The cappucino was only 1.5 euro from a rarely in Italy seen La Marzocco (can be found in any Vienna's third wave coffee shops now) machine and the taste was fantastic. You can also buy some bread or pastries from the bakery opposite and enjoy the food together without cover charges! Apart from that I had the best caprese on another day at the cheese stall there. Everything is fresh and even the steak is reasonably priced. When I go back to Firenze, I will definitely visit the venue again. It's clean and reasonably priced. Dinner starts at 7 pm though, so if you are hungry before that time, try it with cheese or bread. Breakfast is really recommended too. I did not try the ice-cream, although someone on tripadvisor gave a good review.
Another cheap and good coffee was at the library near the Duomo that is often frequented by the students there. You get a great photo angle of Duomo from the cafe terrace too.
Enjoy your trip!
Update, just found this page: http://sprudge.com/ditta-artiginale-specialty-coffee-florence-italy.html
Ditta Artiginale seems to be the place to go for good coffee. ;)
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