Florence Restaurant

... at Franco Sala's Trattoria Forno in Civita (Franco insisted that 8 1/2 months early is not too far away for his very popular restaurant) A bit early to start this blog, but just to let you know that our dear friends Randy and her son David will be giving ...

... again, Ilya and I returned to the apartment for a siesta. We met Bill and Thea for dinner at Casalinga, the most highly recommended restaurant on our meal voucher plan. Dinner was delicious, but it is hard for me to get used to the heavy, large-portioned ...

... for a reasonably priced restaurant but they cannot be found in the main tourist Piazzas but we did stumble on a great restaurant called Ristorante Vecchia Firenze. on the Borgo Degli Albizi. We can recommend it. Great home cooking and a reasonable price. ...

... online. I spent about four hours in the late morning/early afternoon walking around Florence, getting my bearings. I had a nice lunch at a small restaurant, a caprese salad. However, the salad actually came with lettuce and was served in ...

... friendly American/Canadian (long story) girls (sisters, Sarah and Becca) who we ended up having dinner with in the hostel restaurant downstairs. We decided to have a few drinks and went upstairs to check out the balcony bar, which was unfortunately ...

... is pink) and were given a little cosmetic pack with girly goodies when we checked it. This place also has a pool, sauna, restaurant/bar with theme nights, organized activities, internet, laundry and the WORST kitchen we've had at a hostel. Everything is ...

... 'luxury' hostel and I'm willing to bet that it was way nicer than most of the hotels in Florence. The place was huge, modern, and immaculate. It had a restaurant, bar, lounge, activity rooms, roof terrace, patio, gym, flat screen TVs, you name ...

... river.   We crossed the famous Ponte Vechio which was lined with quaint jewellery and scarf shops before finding a nice restaurant for dinner. At this point Kel realized she had lost her shopping bags and the girls solved this problem by ordering ...

... the tower and we're back on the bus to Florence.  Even though we were exhausted we had reservations at Aqua al 2 a recommended restaurant that has a sister in San Diego (which we have never been to! J ) The food was delicious and a perfect cap to ...

... Bri (I know Danielle, you're laughing) and had an awesome night despite the fact that some angry Italian workers at a Mexican restaurant were the nastiest people that we've ever met...We were so excited for Mexican food, and the place seemed really nice, ...

... By around 6 in the evening we decided to head back to our room, along the way we grabbed dinner at a beautiful restaurant, most restaurants in Florences have tourist menus displayed which have a fixed price which includes the crazy cover charge. We found ...

... we came back for dinner on Tuesday night! After afternoon rest at the hotel, we ventured out again and ate at a Mexican restaurant. Yep, I know it's sounds crazy, but it seemed like something of home. So we stopped. As you might expect, Italians ...

Following our lunch debacle we are resolute that we will now "see some of Florence!". But, as we leave the 'restaurant' (read: pig-swill servery) it is starting to rain. We shoot into a glove-maker and try on some gloves. We each buy a lovely pair of ...

... and a half to Florence. We checked into our hotel and got cleaned up for dinner and drinks. The group headed to a local restaurant where we had bruschetta, salad, spaghetti and meat sauce and of course dessert. Soda is ridiculously expensive in Italy. ...

... , it was beautiful, but I was SOOOOO glad to get out of there. As I mentioned earlier, we went back to the Galleria restaurant (off the Ponte Vecchio) for dinner. The waiter was very helpful and treated us to Limoncello as an after dinner aperitif. I ...

... to put it back together, and he would therefore know that she had cheated on him. Clever guy huh!!! Next we went to the restaurant for our dinner. We got soggy bruschetta, cold pesto and tomato pasta, fatty beef stew with 7 chips, and no frills chocolate ...

... nbsp; another hour which was fine. We got back to the hostel at around  9:30pm and had a late dinner at the hostel restaurant. After dinner we  played some foosball for a while. I started to feel crappy so I headed  upstairs and went on ...

... up and they had plenty of room.  In fact, too much room, this place is massive!  Has a pool, sauna, bar, restaurant, kitchen (which Im looking forward to using) and dorm rooms that look like hotel rooms.  Crazy!  Anywho, Florence is ...

... we ate at a place called....IL VEGETARIANO!!!! Needless to say, I am very excited to discover that there is a delicious vegetarian restaurant right around the corner from us!! Right now we're going to walk around Florence for a little since it's Friday ...

... the bartenders promised me a good last night at the club!  i took off to go eat in the city, and she went to the restaurant in the hostel. and when i got back she had befriended 3 cuties that r also from argentina ( all speak spanish, one, pablo ...