Trattoria Angiolino

This place is embarrassing. In the past was one of the best restaurant in the city. Now with a new management it’s literally embarrassing: it smells like sewers, waiters really rude and conceited, food really bad and they deliver it after ONE HOUR and also one dish was missing!!! More then 10 minutes for a simple coffee!!!
Really embarrassing. The restaurant was full but I guess it’s for his history in the PAST. The future will be very short on this way.
Don’t eat here if you want something traditional and not just food for tourist.
Unbelievable!

Loved the florentine steak and rosemary potatoes! Wine and atmosphere were also wonderful!

I have been eating at Angiolino in Florence Italy for almost 20 years and the food was always consistently perfect. Unfortunately, the restaurant was sold around the beginning of the year and the new menu, the new cook and the new owner are as bad as you can get in a horrible tourist trap or bad cafeteria. This is NOT the Angelino of last year, far from it.
Here is the long version of our experience. We went there last night (our second night in Florence) and noticed that they had remodeled and all the employees were new. I asked the waitress/​hostess if they had a table for us. She almost had a nervous breakdown. After about five minutes I walked to the cashier and asked if they had a table and he said yes. I usually walk away from restaurants that do not have a professional greeting the guests, but my wife insisted that we stay and unfortunately we did.
After we sat down, it took the waiter a good 20 minutes to get us the menu and another 15 minutes to take our order and to bring us water and bead. I usually get an order of tomato bruschetta which is very simple dish (chopped tomatoes on grilled bread). They brought two small pieces of cold burnt toasted (not grilled) bread with Parmesan and mozzarella. Needless to say that our twins were so hungry by then that I did not send it back. We ordered a tagliata (steak cut in long thin pieces) for two and Milanese for the twins.
After another 30 minutes, the Milanese came but the sides and our dish did not. I asked the waiter and he immediately got the steak but not the sides. The steak was nothing short of horrible; we ordered it rare and it was over cooked in a pan (again not on a grill as it is always done in Florence); it was as bad as you can get. I did not say anything and after another 10 minutes we finally got our side dishes.
After the meal, the waiter asked me how the food was and I told him it was not good. He said he is sorry but they have expanded and have to serve 200 people, hence the bad food. He asked me to talk to the owner (which was at the cashier). I tried to talk to him about the experience, but he could not be less interest in hearing about the bad food (I guess he already knew) and was abrassive. I thanked him and walked out.
To close, it is a shame to have lost a good restaurant that we loved. The current owner should not be in the service industry and needs to learn to listen to his customers. He also needs to hire a chef that actually knows how to cook or send the chef to cooking school.

Le cadre est sympa, la nourriture plutôt bonne. Mais le service moyen. Attention à l’addition bien vérifier la liste. Ils ont le pouvoir de transformer l’eau en vin et ça fait 10 € de plus sur l’addition.

Wow… we love the food in Florence in general and went to dinner at this place on the recommendation of our hotel concierge… and the food was fantastic. I read some of the other reviews where the service was criticized… but that was not our experience. We were early, 7:30, so perhaps that could be due to the restaurant not being too busy. Regardless, our service was excellent. But the food was outstanding. Everything we ate was just delicious!

Recommended by hotel staff at Pitti Palace, sat us by the kitchen so constant parade of food and dirty dishes. So slow, the waiter said he had no time to help us with the menu but would help us with the specials. Not the place for venturing out if you don’t speak Italian. Food was good, prices fair, don’t expect to be waited on!

We had high hopes with this place but our experience could not have been worse! First off, this place is super touristy. Our waiter barely spoke any english and was snappy and rude. We asked if we could order a carafe of wine, since it was just the two of us. He snapped «No! No carafe! Bottle only!» and pointed to the bottle on our table. We figured that was our only option so we drank it. Five minutes we look around and literally every table in the restaurant is drinking a carafe. Haha.
As a vegetarian it was definitely challenging trying to look up all the ingredients in my phrase book. When I asked whether a risotto had meat in it, our server yelled it’s «salad risotto, salad, salad risotto!». I ordered it, not wanting to be yelled at anymore, and turns out what he meant by «salad» was «olive». It was olive risotto. I don’t even like olives. It was a joke, and really bad. The service was horrible. The food wasn’t good. And we spent close to $ 100. We left hungry and felt like we were robbed.
Literally everyone in the restaurant was an American tourist. And most people ordered big platters of steak — so if that’s your thing go for it. If you’re looking for something simple and authentic then JUST DON’T DO IT.

We came across this restaurant while searching for a different one. My husband was drawn in by the variety of meat offerings! While we waiting for about 15 minutes for anyone to even acknowledge us, we did get one of the last tables. We were a bit intimidated at first, as the servers were well seasoned, older men, but once we had the English menu in our hands, we were golden! I had the spinach and ricotta ravioli with sage & brown butter sauce — amazing! and then i had the lemon chicken. my husband had a steak which was delicious and we even had leftover for a snack the next day! the bathroom was quite old, small and rather dirty. But besides the bathroom, everything was great :)

We were looking for a casual, typical restuarant where locals go and the concierge at the Hotel Lungarno recommend Andiolino’s. It was a great experience, wonderful ambiance and excellent traditional Florentine style food.

We wanted a trattoria style dinner near our hotel in the Oltarno. The concerige recommended Trattoria Angiolino. It was fabulous. I had a wonderful ribollita to start — incredibly hearty and good. For dinner, I had the slow cooked beef in red wine sauce. The waiter was a nice older Italian man and helped us pick great dishes on the menu.
It’s a great place for a good tuscan meal.
This It was very busy the sunday night we were there. Reservations are recommended.

Whereas other people hunt the real David statue, I hunt food. This led me to Trattoria Angiolino on Santo Spirito. They were advertising Ribollita (€ 7) and Fagioli all’olio o all’uccelletto (€ 4). These were rare finds so I was properly excited. They weren’t open yet (be prepared for Italian restaurants to appear open but really aren’t), so I waited and watched the Tango Spirito dancers for another hour.
Finally, their opening hour arrived and I was starving. Reservations are encouraged, but they were able to seat me and my second (my large backpack). I do recommend making reservations for Santo Spirito restaurants. They are very popular and receive much foot traffic.
Trattoria Angiolino has a fantastic interior. The exposed stone, murals, Tuscan colors, dim lighting add to its hushed atmosphere. Respectful of this, I glanced around and sneakily took pictures.
My food arrived remarkably fast. First was the Ribollita alla fiorentina. Links show that Ribollita means reboiled, was originally leftover minestrone reboiled with bread, and features inexpensive vegetables. It is a simple dish with white, green and muted red colors. There were light Italian spices present. Overall, a simple hearty dish presented with a triple layer of plates.
Along with this came bread and cooked white beans. The bread was part of the cover charge (€ 3). The white beans confused me for a while. Fagioli all’olio o all’uccelletto should come with meat, yet this was just white beans. Then I remembered how I ordered. Oftentimes at restaurants I’ll say the beginning of a dish’s name so I’m less embarrassed as I butcher the foreign words. The short, bald Italian repeated back to me: «just fagioli all’olio?» I replied affirmatively, therefore I received Tuscan white beans with sage and olive oil. D’oh! They were quite good and satisfying. The bread was dense and chewy. I even mixed the table olive oil with the bread and beans. So good, so smooth.
My bill came to € 11 which meant they subtracted the cover charge since I erred my order. Thank you for the grace. So, if you’re looking for traditional Tuscan fare on an interesting thoroughfare filled with street vendors and possibly tango dancers, go to Trattoria Angiolino. They also serve larger dishes perfect for sharing.

Diese Trattoria ist nichts für Vegetarier oder so’n Zeugs! Dafür kommen Fleischfreunde voll auf ihre Kosten. Die Bistecca Fiorentina ist grandios. Sie wird am Tisch tranchiert und dabei läuft einem schon das Wasser im Mund zusammen. Der Service ist ausgesprochen freundlich und die Preise sind fair.

Conseillé par notre guide gastronomique toscan, c’est des tous les restaurants de Florence, de loin, mon préféré.
Aussi bien pour l’accueil sincèrement agréable, l’ambiance familliale, le service parfait et rapide que pour la cuisine toscane. Un vrai régal, un délice de tous les instants et par les arômes et par les papilles. Il est difficile de trouver les mots pour retranscrire ce qui a été pour moi comme un expérience tant les saveurs étaient sublimées par la cuisson parfaite.
Je peux dire que s’est chez Angiolino que j’ai mangé les meilleures pâtes al ragu de Florence !
Tarifs hyper bas, à se demander comment ils vivent. Restaurant très fréquenté semble t-​il, il doit être connu.