Ate hear twice in three days it was so great. Lovely atmosphere, staff was great (except our server…read morethe second time, she was a bit nasty but whatever) and the food was AMAZING. Gnocchi was the best I've ever tasted, hands down. Highly recommend this place. Make a reservation though.

Yesterday morning, we asked the hotel to make a reservation at this restaurant for five people at…read more8:00 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., hotel staff called our room to remind us about the reservation. However, when we arrived at the restaurant, they said there was no table. The restaurant manager claimed that someone had called to cancel the reservation, which shocked us. The manager had given our table to someone else, which was very upsetting. After arguing our case, they finally arranged a very small, cramped table near the entrance. This is a restaurant with extremely poor credibility, bad service attitude, and dishonesty!

We made reservations at Osteria Pastella knowing it was a popular spot, and the whole experience…read morefelt like stepping into a well-run little performance. Everyone lines up outside, and once the doors open, the entire restaurant is seated at the same time. It's unusual, but somehow fun -- like the curtain lifting on dinner. We were greeted with a welcome drink, which set the tone perfectly before the main event: the famous cheese-wheel pasta. They prepared it right in front of me, swirling the hot pasta through a giant wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano until it turned silky and glossy. Then came the fresh truffle -- and I mean fresh. Easily the most fragrant, delicate truffle I've ever had in my life. Absolute heaven. For dessert, their tiramisu wasn't the classic layered version; it was more of a deconstructed, airy éclair-style creation that still delivered all the right flavors. We finished with limoncello, a bright little goodbye that wrapped the whole experience in a perfect bow. Yes, Osteria Pastella is a bit of a tourist vibe -- but the food does not miss. The quality, the flavors, and the whole tableside ritual made this one of our most memorable meals in Florence. I'd recommend it without hesitation.

A really great dining experience. Booked weeks in advance and for our time a lot 7-9pm, people were…read morelined up 10 minutes early to be let in. They brought us all in as a group (checking reso names) and sat us at individually tables. Then the "show" began with welcome prosecco, wine orders, etc. We got the squid and pork screwers as a starter and thought the flavors were just okay. The complimentary cheese bread ball and regular bread was super tasty. For mains, we got the truffle pasta (with the famous cheese wheel) which was fun to watch. The pasta itself was very solid, but not best ever. Also got the beef/boar pasta and it was better than the truffle pasta in my opinion and cheaper. The deconstructed tiramisu was yummy. Overall a good dinner with good service and pretty good food! An easy spot to recommend to others!

Saw the reviews on Yelp and wanted to try it since we were staying around the corner…read more Had the Cacio Pepe and Grandma's Lasagna. Lasagna was 10/10 which is why my wife kept eating mine and the Pepe was still very good. Eat here for phenomenal food and value.

I highly recommend this charming restaurant. The owner took great care of us and the food was…read moreamazing! Definitely one of our highlights since arriving in Italy.

Worth the tourist trap line. We went around 11:45 and got our food 30 minutes later. There are…read moreactually two stores next to each other so you can get in either line! We got the Tuscana after seeing many people recommending it on Yelp - nice work y'all! It was delicious. All their ingredients are clearly fresh including their bread. We also asked for them to cut our sandwich in half and it was just right for two people.

Fresh baked bread out of the oven…read more The sandwich is a pretty good size! If you ask the workers they will cut it in half for you! With that being said, ate half of the sandwich and felt so full. I saw many people order just one for themselves and not finishing it. Ordered the Italiano and it was perfect packed with fresh ingredients!!! Would return back when I return to Florence one day! Restaurant is super chill and casual with seating. There's even free restrooms to use which was a nice bonus!

Really nice food in Florence. I wanted something different from the regular pasta and pizza and…read morethis restaurant delivered in spades. Their butter nan and mutton curry/Halim was the best!

Quick tasty Indian With a wide curry variety and interesting…read moreflavors which can go straight through you the next day.

Since it was one of a few pleasant days in late March, we sat outside almost in the midst of noisy…read moretraffic, but still enjoyed it. The offerings are clearly multi-ethnic in combining Indian food with Italian, but given the tiny kitchen, the cooks did well. My risotto with shrimp and asparagus was great and my wife enjoyed her roasted chicken with potatoes. We don't understand the complaints on here about high prices. We paid 12E and 15E which were hardly exorbitant. Via dei Bardi has many other places worth exploring (a huge grocery store, two bakeries, etc.).

We loved the food here! The service was amazing and the food was DELICIOUS!…read more We were in Florence just for a day and as we were walking we came across this restaurant and thought we'd give it a whirl. Typically, south Asian food is a hit or a miss. This was definitely a hit!! The lamb biryani was perfect. The meat was tender. The kabob platter also was amazingly tender. The service by Zafar was outstanding. Check this place out next time you are in Florence.

After days of non stop italian food i needed my rice fix. The lamb biryani was probably one of the…read morebest dishes i had in italy. Perfectly seasoned and accompanied with flavorful chutney. Server also gave me some raita and onions. The meal was 10/10 delicious. The service was great. Really nice and friendly staff. The ambiance was great because they had AC. Not every restaurant in italy believes in AC. This place does!

This place needs more reviews! Food was sooo flavorful, perfect amount of spice! Staff is welcoming…read moreand friendly. Decor is bright and colorful, definitely check out if you're in town and need a break from pizza and pasta!

My husband wanted more food after we went to dinner late one night and went here to get something…read moreelse to fill him up. He got it to go and brought it back to our room and when my sister and I tried it, we knew we had to go back for more the next day! The food was delicious! Good service. Would recommend to anyone

So we get to Florence and not having done proper research had trouble with parking the car. By the…read moretime we found parking, wandered around for a bit, we were a bit worn out and went to check in at our b&b just outside of the city centre. After checking-in we did not want to find our way back to Firenze so we ate downstairs at the flourescently lit tiny shop where they scraped chicken off the doner. There is definitely no arguments here about pricing 3.50 euro if eaten in sandwich form, and 4 eur in a wrap form. I was gonna share one with my boyfriend, but after he took one bite, he very very reluctantly let me take one, and told me to order my own. A little display fridge that has drinks including beer, it made for a satifying meal They don't have fries except for the 2-3 they thrown in the wrap/sandwich. They also have curry, and chicken,but they didn't look very fresh or appetizing. We wanted to come and eat again before we left, but they don't do breakfast and since we were in a hurry, we were relegated to AutoGrill on the highway stop stations. Had they opened for breakfast, I would have totally eaten that instead :)

Good quality, and vegetarian. The quantity is a bit small, but the price isn't that small…read more Good service, welcoming staff perfect ambience.

Great kosher food in Florence. We ate almost everything on the menu. The father and daughter team…read moretook greeting care of us. Homemade Italian food, delicious.

Delicious! Worth checking out. It's very local so either get there right when it opens or have a…read morereservation. Prices are affordable. If you are looking for something different. Menu changes daily. Vegan options. A nice change of pace for those of us who also eat meat but want to finally limit it. Also the way it works is that you order ahead and pay and then the food is brought to your table. Service isn't exactly warm but they are quick and efficient with your meals.

We're always very excited to try a 100% vegetarian restaurant knowing we can eat anything we want…read moreon the menu and we were excited to learn that Il Vegetariano existed. It's a bit of a walk outside of the center of Florence but we'd thought we'd see what the Italian vegetarian focus experience was like. It was serviceable, but not as great as we'd hoped. The concept is interesting...the menu changes every day depending on the whims of that days chef, so our experience could have been informed a bit by just what we experienced that day, and might have been completely different on another day. An issue sometimes with all vegetarian restaurants is they specialize in the concept of being vegetarianism, without necessarily specializing in a particular kind of food which can lead to a mish-mash of disconnected offerings which is what we found on the menu here. The night we were there, for example you could get Italian, Indian, and strudel main dishes...all vegetarian, but otherwise not specializing in any particular type of food. We also didn't have a reservation. They were nice enough to seat us, but the restaurant was not at all full in any of its rooms (at any point when we were there) and the person who seated us, made a point of telling us they prefer reservations and then seated us at probably the least desirable table in the restaurant, right next to the cash register and right across from the salads display case which was the most trafficked area of the restaurant with people ordering their food hovering right over our table. We definitely felt like we were being unnecessarily punished with this table, especially when there were plenty of other places we could have sat and the overall demeanor of the person who seated us made us feel like she felt like she was doing us a big favor and she had her limits. So kind of a bummer of an introduction to the place. You order by writing down what you want on a slip of paper they provide you with, and then bringing that to the cashier to pay. That's fine, but it's not exactly "service" like you might get at any other sit down restaurant with servers and a wait staff. The food came extremely quickly...at the same time as the wine...It's hard to complain about quick service, but at most other places we experience in Italy (and the rest of the world for that matter) you get your wine first and can enjoy it a bit before the food shows up. We felt rushed. Also, and I'm sure I'm coming off as awfully picky, but you can see the high scores I typically give in my other reviews so...but the chairs were really uncomfortable to sit on. I typically don't think about the chairs at restaurants...these chairs made me think about them. My wife and I shared a lasagna and a greens-filled calzone-like pastry for our mains. Both of these portions were super-large...we appreciate generosity in portions, but these were just too large for us to be able to finish...both, especially the lasagna were really rich and heavy dishes too. They checked the box for being vegetarian but didn't excel to star dishes in terms of flavor or presentation that we'd want again. The desserts looked amazing but by the time we had eaten as much as we could of the mains, we just didn't want anything else or to hang around. We had many vegetarian-friendly meals at many restaurants in the cities we visited in Italy on this trip. This one was easily the most disappointing. If we lived in town we might come by to try the desserts or to see if it's a completely different experience with an unnecessary reservation and different chef...but otherwise, it wasn't really worth the walk out of the center of Florence to eat here.