La Casalinga
Home cooking at Trattoria La Casalinga in Florence
Via Michelozzi 9
tel. +39-055-218-624
www.trattorialacasalinga.it
Closed Sun
Sights nearby
* Santo Spirito [church]
** Pitti Palace [museums/gardens]
*** Ponte Vecchio [bridge]
** Santa Maria del Carmine [church]
* Santa Trìnita [church]
Other places to eat nearby
* Il Cantinone [meal]
Le Volpe e L'Uva [light meal]
* Coco Lezzone [meal]
*** Il Latini [meal]
Hotels nearby
Hotel Palazzo Guadagni [moderate]
B&B Floroom 1 [moderate]
Instituto Gould [super-cheap]
Hotel Lungarno [premier-splurge]
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One sign of an otherwise unremarkable trattoria truly favored by the locals: people actually lining up to wait for it to open. The old tall, vaulted rooms of La Casalinga open into blandly modern ones, heritage of an expansion several years back that sucked the spirit out of the place (though the food's still both cheap and good).
It's tough to spend more than $15 here—though if you order both a steak secondo and wine, you might be pushing $20—so feel free to order anything a la carte, be it ribollita (hearty tuscan bean soup thickened with day-old bread) or tortellini in a rabbit ragù, polpette al forno (giant baked meatballs) or faraona arrosto (roast guinea fowl).
Related pages
- Other recommended restaurants in Florence
- Typical Florentine dishes
- Dining in Florence
- Useful dining phrases in Italian
- Dining norms in Italy
This material was last updated January 2007. All information was accurate at the time.
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