Il Cibrèo

The jewel in the crown of a Florentine mini culinary empire

*** Ristorante Il Cibrèo
Via Andrea del Verrocchio 8r, off Via dei Macchi
tel. +39-055-234-1100
www.edizioniteatrodelsalecibreofirenze.it
Closed Sundays and Mondays

Sights nearby
Casa Buonarotti [museum]
*** Santa Croce [church]

Other places to eat nearby
** Il Pizzaiolo [meal/pizza]
*** La Giostra [meal]
Antico Noé [light meal]
Vecchia Firenze [meal]
*** Vivoli [gelato]

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One of top restaurants in town remains the pricey restaurant of choice in Florence for artsy intelligentsia types, both international and Florentine.

Fabio Picchi's cooking is superb, but a bit quirky—there are no steaks to be found, and even more oddly, no pasta. Yet all dishes are absolutely genuine, based on truly ancient Florentine recipes (and many go wonderfully heavy on the peperoncino, which hangs in garlands from the window through to the kitchen).

You never quite know what you're going to get, since they whip up everything based on what's best each morning at the nearby Sant'Ambrogio market. There's not even a menu; your waiter or waitress will simply grab a spare chair (or crouch by your table) to sit and describe, in mouth-watering detail, the delectables available that evening. (I know some people dig that, others find it annoying, but this is how they've ben doing it for decades.)

Book ahead for this one. Oh, and if it's on tonight, don't miss ordering their namesake dish: cibrèo, a sinfully rich liver on toasted bread.

The Trattoria Cibrèo ("Cibreino"), around the corner at Via de' Macchi 122r, charges half as much but doesn't take reservations.

(The Picchi family also runs the nearby Caffè Cibrèo at Via del Verrocchio 5r, and a weird, post-modern dinner theater-type performance space called Il Teatro del Sale at Via de' Macchi 118.)

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