Food & Wine in Florence and Tuscany

Suggestions on the best restaurants in Florence, on what to eat and where to in Florence, to delight your senses during your stay in Florence. From florentine-style Steak to Chianti wine, you will find all about tuscan gastronomy. On the first floor of the Hotel Brunelleschi you can find one of the better restaurants of Florence, the Santa Elisabetta restaurant, partly hidden in the quiet antique Byzantine tower.


“Panzanella” (or “panmolle”)

Aug 16, 2010 Comments Off

Take the crust off and cut it into cubes (not too small), then cover with a cloth and let it rest in the fridge for one day.
Put water, salt and vinegar in a bowl and moisten the bread cubes quickly, then squeeze them to obtain crumbles…

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Chef Bertaccini’s World Champion Ice Cream in Restaurant Santa Elizabetta

Jul 09, 2010 Comments Off

On the à la carte menu you will find the dishes of the Tuscan cuisine revisited by Simone Bertaccini, our young and creative Chef and also world champion of ice creams. In June 2009 chef Bertaccini’s team got a crushing win in the SIGEP high class cuisine in Rimini.

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Restaurant Santa Elizabetta: a continuous, exclusive and precious search of salts and oils.

Jul 09, 2010 Comments Off

At the Restaurant Santa Elizabetta exclusiveness always involves all the details, even the smallest.
Some of our dishes from the à la carte menu are portioned and served in the dining room, just in front of you: you will enjoy the preparation of the panzanella and of the Florentine beefsteak combined with special oil and salt.

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Tortelli alla mugellana

Jul 07, 2010 Comments Off

Cover the potatoes under salt flakes and cook in the oven for about an hour. Unpeel and chop the potatoes.
Meanwhile, brown the minced garlic and 2 of the sprigs of thyme add the pulp of the tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes on the fire add the concentrated tomato sauce and end the cooking until you see the mixture results as a cream…

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Bistecca alla fiorentina, the most famous steak of the world

Jun 01, 2010 Comments Off

Tuscany and Florence in particular are famous for their cooking and Bistecca alla Fiorentina, Florentine-Style Steak , is featured prominently amongst the most famous dishes. We’re talking of this delightfully rich tranche of steak…

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Chianti, the most famous wine in the world

Jun 01, 2010 Comments Off

Maybe you have seen a picture in some postcards or calendars across the globe and wondered about this beautiful Italian landscape: yes, it is Chianti, gentle hills covered with fields of vineyards and olive groves in Tuscany.

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