Marchesi De’frescobaldi

mazing. michelin reviewed. there’s a secret in florence, which is that Americans eat shit for food in Florence because all the recommendations come from poor study abroad college kids. It’d be like if italians came to Chicago and asked their friends who had studied abroad as college sophmores in Chicago where to eat. The responses would be: «white castle», «chilis», «and some neighborhood pub». Nice italians would say «oh yeah, it was distinctly American and I got the feeling of being a local». but the food is still not the best the city has to offer. So pretty much NO american guidebooks tell you to eat at Dei Fresobaldi, which is idiocy since this restaurant has been michelin reviewed 4 years in a row and DESTROYS all the typical florence recommendations from tourists (even the NYT review of florence is atrocious).
The egglplant terrine with mozzarella di buffalo and homemade pesto was amazing.
salmon tartar with smoked sea salt. yum!
whole roasted branzino — delectable.
i can’t even remember everything we ate here, but it was after 3 days of eating NYT and travel guide recommendations. We finally got sick of eating average food on vacation, went to google italy and used google translate to find food reviews, and started eating graet food.
another word for the wise in florence. Italians don’t use Unilocal like Americans use Unilocal.They just eat and enjoy it, they don’t get the same sick perverse pleasure about writing about it like I apparently currently am (or maybe I just want to stay elite and keep going to the parties).