Firenze Nova

Fuimos por que estaba cerca de la Universidad, nos dieron de comer en el ultimo minuto ya que en teoríà la cocina estaba cerrada (llegamos a las 14:30, que para ser Italia es bastante tarde). El restaurante es de unos hermanos calabreses.
Los camareros fueron geniales, muy divertidos y amables, el restaurante como tal (la apariencia y el diseño interior) pero la comida merece la pena.
Tomamos una ensalada de Pulpo y un Carpaccio de Atún muy fresco. La pizza calabrese nos ofrecieron tomarla con Provolone ahumado en vez de con Mozzarella y estaba INCREIBLE, con café, agua, cerveza. etc 2 personas 38 € un precio más que razonable para una comida más que sabrosa.

Novoli is a culinary wasteland even though it’s only 10 minutes away from Florence core. Our Florence offices are nearby and we scoured the area to find a decent meal. This casual restaurant is super packed but we’re not certain why. Service is rude and lacking. Food quality was a bit plain though the octopus was a definite highlight… and the general atmosphere was ridiculously loud where I felt like I was in a night club. Even though we made reservations ahead of time… they were really unprepared for us.
We arrived with a large group (20+ people) and it’s great that it could accomodate us. Unfortunately the wait staff really gave us the impression they didn’t want us. Between of our size, they divided our group into two tables. This is fine but they only gave us one waiter to handle us… and they failed miserably. No English is spoken and that’s ok but the rudeness was truly apparent as we tried to use our iphone apps to help pronounce things in Italian. They were clearly understaffed as they didn’t even bother to move another wait staff into our area. The manager nearly yelled at one person at our table because one person took 4 pieces of the steak from the shared plate and the waiter wanted to send the plate to the other table. They clearly didn’t give us enough food on the shared plates.
Food is better than any tourist trap but overall, none of it sparked any culinary delight. Flavours were either boring or muted because it had ingredients out of season.
Overall, bad service, poor planning, and medicore food made the lasting impression.