Buca dell'Orafo vs Enoteca Pinchiorri
Both establishments are recommended by writers. On balance, Enoteca Pinchiorri ranks significantly higher than Buca dell'Orafo. Enoteca Pinchiorri ranks #1 in Florence with praise from 11 reviews like Condé Nast Traveler, concierge.com and Lonely Planet.
Buca dell'Orafo
Via dei Girolami 28, Florence
From $7 /night
Frommer's
"A buca is a cellar joint with half a dozen crowded tables serving good, seasonal Florentine fare."
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Travel + Leisure
"This intimate restaurant is helmed by Giordano Monni, who selects ingredients at the nearby San Lorenzo market. Try the chittarini, angel-hair pasta with porcini mushrooms."
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Zagat
4.0
"The Monni family’s “elegant”, “old-style” standby is renowned for its “zesty” yet “unpretentious” “Tuscan specialties” made with “fresh, seasonal ingredients.”"
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DK Eyewitness
"This Florentine “cellar” restaurant is down steep stairs in an alley by the Ponte Vecchio. The fantastic Tuscan fare is prepared from fresh local ingredients."
Enoteca Pinchiorri
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via Ghibellina, 87, 50122 Florence
From $0 /night
Concierge
"This elegant, high-class temple to culinary excellence is Florence's best restaurant by a long chalk."
Fodor's
"A sumptuous Renaissance palace with high frescoed ceilings and bouquets in silver vases provides the backdrop for this restaurant, one of the most expensive in Italy."
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Insight Guides
"One of Florence and Italy’s most prestigious restaurants, in a 17th-century palace, with a delightful courtyard for dining in the open air."
Travel + Leisure
"At this Florentine institution near Santa Croce, sit in the rose-colored, gilt-laden dining room and sample Tuscan staples like chickpea soup with pasta."
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Zagat
4.5
""Mortgage your house" if you must to dine at Annie Féolde's "stunning" Renaissance "beauty" "at least once in your life" assert acolytes of this "luxurious" Croce Italian."
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