Tastes of Florence: A Walking Food Tour
Want to Experience the Best Food Tour in Florence?! Eat your way through Tuscany’s gastronomic masterpieces, while spending the morning in the company of our passionate local guides – and connoisseurs! We will guide you from wine-bars to farmers markets, to traditional family-run bakeries, dating back hundreds of years…
Florence’s bustling market halls, best trattorias, and finest local butchers await you – our most popular food experience in Florence!
Savor Florence with all your senses
Learn from our passionate foodies
Local lunch, local recipes
What to eat in Florence?
While in Florence there are many options for what to eat. You can find all the typical Italian restaurants which serve pasta and pizza as well as trattorias serving local specialties. You can also find ‘bisteccherias’ serving Florentine steak as well as plenty of vegetarian and vegan restaurants. You will also see food trucks serving ‘lampredotto’ a secret of Florence! We recommend you try a bit of everything and on this food tour we can help you do just that!
What is traditional Italian food in Florence?
Florence is famous for its beefsteak, the ‘Bistecca Fiorentina’. You will likely see these huge red chunks of meat hanging in the windows of restaurants – whether or not that is appetising to you we can’t say! For your own chance to cook up a real Florentine steak and learn all about it in the fun of our awesome partner trattoria click here to try the Florentine Steak Experience ™!
If rare steak’s not your think, or perhaps you don’t eat meat we also have a wonderful vegan food tour in Florence and a vegan cooking class. You can discover the veggie side of Florence including trying all the traditional Italian food from this region such as Pappa al Pomodoro and Panzanella!
Where to eat in Florence?
In Florence, like many big cities, there are a lot of touristy restaurants, which don’t always have the best food. If you’re going to eat steak check that they have Chianina beef certification, if you’re having pasta, you can ask if they make it fresh ‘fatta a casa’ (homemade). Nevertheless, there are numerous wonderful restaurants to try out and on our food tour we can give you as many tips as you need.
What is Tuscan food like?
Tuscan food can vary hugely. Even though the Bistecca Fiorentina is famous in Florence, Siena, for example is famous for its ‘Pici’ pasta, a type of very thick handmade spaghetti. Then in rural areas, they have wonderful cold cut meats, but also hearty plant-based dishes such as tomato and bread soups, and bean and black cabbage stews. Tuscan food can be different from what people expect from Italian food because it doesn’t focus so much around pasta and certainly not pizza! For pizza you can try Naples or Rome, and Bologna boasts some of the best pasta!
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Why Not Try Our Other Food Experiences in Florence:
Click Here for our Vegan Food Tour in Florence!
The Florentine Steak Experience – the Best Bistecca in Florence
Gourmet Safari in Tuscany – Experience the Tuscan Dream with Wine & Food Galore
Anthony Hall –
Firstly, learn from our mistake and skip breakfast. With this tour you’ll only need to find your own dinner. Breakfast and lunch are covered. Lara introduced us to the flavors of Florence. She was an excellent guide explaining the nuances of ordering and eating breakfast while standing…a traditional Italian thing. She also taught us the Italian way to eat and drink. At lunch time we had pasta which was prepared al dente (slightly undercooked). Had Lara not explained this was intentional, we would have naively asked them to finish cooking the pasta. All in all a worth while experience introducing you to the culture of Italian cuisine.
Lindsey –
I surprised my fiance with this tour for his birthday during our trip to Italy. We absolutely loved it! We ended up on a private tour with Alessandro and he took us on a fun, food-filled tour around Florence. We learned a lot about the typical cuisine and tasted a delicious variety of food and drink. I would definitely recommend this to any foodies coming to Florence!
Deborah W. –
Absolutely loved the tour with Alessandro. He was a joy and shared a lot of history and insights with us. He’s fun and open and I highly recommend him as a guide. Thank you for a wonderful experience. It was a highlight of our trip.