Food Highlights
🏆 Favorite Bite
Florentine truffle pasta and tagliatelle with wild boar ragu
🌟 Most Unique Dish
Coccoli (fried dough balls) with prosciutto
What to Expect
🥐 Visit a Family Bakery
Start the evening at a small family-run bakery where the owner, a nonna in her 90s, still works preparing the baked goods that have become her specialties.
🍷 Taste Your Way Through Tuscan Wine
Visit a family-owned wine cellar and sample a generous selection of wines while learning more about Tuscany's incredible wine culture.
🍝 Truffle Pasta & Wild Boar Ragù
Enjoy two fantastic pasta dishes featuring truffle and wild boar ragù — two distinctly Tuscan flavors and some of our favorite pasta of the trip.
🪟 Drink from a Wine Window
Experience one of Florence's traditional wine windows while learning the fascinating history behind these tiny openings found throughout the city.
🥩 Florentine Steak
Dig into one of Florence's most famous specialties with a beautifully prepared Florentine steak cooked exactly as this Tuscan classic should be.
🍨 Finish with Gelato
Wrap up an incredible evening of Tuscan food and wine with the only appropriate ending to an Italian food tour — gelato.
Our Experience - Florence Dinner Tour
Our second Florence food tour took a completely different approach to experiencing the city's cuisine. The Florence Dinner Tour: Truffle, Florentine Steak & Fine Wines was a more premium experience than some of Eating Europe's other Florence tours, but after spending the evening eating and drinking our way through the city, we thought the higher price was well worth it.
Our guide, Alice, was a Florence native with an obvious love for her city, its history, and especially its food. Throughout the evening, she connected what we were eating and drinking with the traditions behind it, making the experience feel like much more than simply moving from one restaurant to another.
One of our first stops was a small family-run bakery with an incredible story of its own. The bakery is owned by a nonna in her 90s who still works there daily preparing the baked goods that have become her staples. From there, we visited a family-owned wine cellar where we proceeded to sample what felt like a very large number of wines — and we certainly weren't complaining. Every one we tried was delicious, while the setting gave us another glimpse into Tuscany's deep connection with wine.
Dinner continued at a pasta restaurant where we were served two dishes: truffle pasta followed by wild boar ragù. Both were fantastic. After eating plenty of pasta elsewhere in Italy, we also noticed that these dishes weren't nearly as salty as some of the pastas we'd encountered in Rome, allowing the truffle, ragù, and other flavors to really stand out.
Then came one of the most uniquely Florentine stops of the evening: a traditional wine window. Alice explained the history behind these small openings found throughout Florence before, naturally, we got to experience one ourselves. It's one of those traditions that might be easy to walk past without realizing there's an entire story hiding in the wall.
Of course, a tour with Florentine steak in the name eventually has to deliver the steak, and ours was cooked beautifully. After an evening already filled with baked goods, wine, pasta, truffles, and wild boar, sitting down to one of Florence's signature dishes made the experience feel like a complete tour through some of Tuscany's most recognizable flavors. We then finished the night with gelato, because apparently there is always room for gelato in Italy.
This tour definitely sits at a higher price point than some other Florence food experiences, but we felt the quality and variety justified it. Between Alice's passion for her hometown, the family-run businesses, generous wine tasting, two pasta dishes, the wine window, Florentine steak, and gelato, this wasn't simply a few tastings along the way — it genuinely felt like an entire evening experiencing Florence through its food and wine.
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