Rome/Florence in 3 weeks. Give me some restaurants.

Get a sandwich at the famous sandwich place in Florence (everyone will know what you mean), its the size of a manhole for like 5 euro and its delicious.

Also, find a place serving a florentinian steak and go get it. We went to restaurant with a stone wine cellar from the 1500's and ate down there. it was really cool.

Also, if you see Pici pasta (Really Thick Spaghetti, almost Udon-like) with truffle oil sausage cream sauce, GET IT. We ate that dish at 2 different restaurants. incredible at both and we made it when we got home.

We did a Trastevere food tour one evening in Rome after all of historical tours for a change of pace. It was amazing!

Signorvino Firenze

We took a day trip to Florence to see some family and they knew all of the non-tourists spots. This was a place we stopped and had beer and wine with a really cool view.

Roscioli is unavailable until after I return home. Damn.

In florence you want bistecca, anything else is a waste of time.

Eat pizza once. Italy has so many great things to eat beyond pizza and lasagna.

Near the Campo de Fiori there is Osteria da Fortunata.

There are actually 2 locations across the street from each other- demand is that high. You can watch the old ladies make pasta in the window. Best carbonara in Rome hands down.

We had about a 20 minute wait for a table for 2 on a random weekday afternoon

There is a place on via dei Neri nearly next door to where we stayed called L’osteria. I think the address is 12 via dei Neri. Ask for Desiree. One of the best florentine steaks we had if not the best and she was fun and friendly. I think we ate there 3-4x. Owner or management was gracious and friendly too. Of course maybe it’s due to the many bottles and many plates we ordered. Also one of the best gelato places is across the street at gelato dei Neri and antico vinnao or whatever it is just a little ways down on the same street. I never stood in the long line bc there are less social media famous ones that are equally as good or better. We spent several meals at bar di riviore. Pretty good people watching from there on the palazzo vecchio. In the summer when I took my teen there were orchestras performing on the old stage nearby the Perseus statue. That was amazing and I didn’t get to see that when husband and I returned in April. Another hotspot we repeatedly visited was someplace called patskowsky’s or something like that. Great service and comfortable place for drinks and bands usually played after 11.

Yes please. Have a decent roster for in cities but will be spending 4 days bumming around Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna next summer.

trattoria del rosetta. one block from the Pantheon. incredible