Trattoria alla Vecchia Bettola

An old-school restaurant deep in the Oltrarno district of Florence

* Ristorante alla Vecchia Bettola
Via Luigi Ariosto 34r/Viale Vasco Pratolini (at Piazza Tasso)
tel. +39-055-224-158
www.allavecchiabettola.com
Closed Sundays and Mondays
€€

Sights nearby
** Santa Maria della Carmine [church]
Bellosguardo [hill]

Hotels nearby
Reid Recommends Hotel Torre di Bellosguardo [premier]
Il Palagetto Guest House [cheap]

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This is where I once memorably bit into something that for all the world I thought at the time was a sheep's testicle. It turned out to be merely a sheep's eyeball. Strangely, I was relieved.

The dish in question was the testicciole d'agnello, a stew of various mutton parts cooked and served in a halved sheep's skull.

This place is True Florentine, all the way. Few tourists ever find there way over here. Fewer still wish they did. It is, however, an experience—and one of the best places to get true, unreformed, traditional Florentine dishes.

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