Then I speak for what I eat, I ate the lampredotto, on the ground floor 6€ good traditional, fits (only the price with beer would have been 11€ each but In the end in three we paid 40 € ) bah ... we did not ask, because we stayed there one night who cares we go drinking , but quite strange as a receipt , upstairs I tried again, the next day the sandwich , but this time lampredotto to the sauce , price 7.50 € receipt this time correct for a sandwich , Too bad that Ciccio , inside there was very little , I was not satisfied , at this point I recommend you eat down pay something more of which you did not understand why , but at least something substantial eat . All right, enjoy!! Have fun and anyway W Florence beautiful and delicious.

You do not need a tour guide for this spot - a great open-air market with a lot of vendors selling leather goods and clothing around the outside perimeter of the building. They will bargain with you so make sure you do not pay the posted price as they are inflated (by quite a bit; I bought a leather briefcase priced at 425 Euros for 160 Euros). The building is large and has a lot of food, vegetable, and butcher stalls on the inside. Well worth the visit.

What saved our trip to the Mercato was the pizza made on time and very good. Confused, dirty, noisy environment, presence of pigeons (vector of disease) flying over our heads, very expensive dishes and beers. To know and spend a lot, worth the visit. Just for that. Eat better in many other places, without spending so much and out unhappy. For example, a package of Cantucci, traditional Tuscan biscuit, cost 10 euros, while in any other renowned confectionery it cost 6 euros. Tourist pick in the vein! Be conscious!

Historic structure located in the center of Florence offers a vast and varied culinary offer. The continuous opening hours (from 9am to midnight) allow you to visit it, to eat or not, at any time of the day or evening. With some friends we tested a 2.2 kg rib eye accompanied by baked potatoes (all at 57 euros per skull) and a bottle of red paid separately. The fat didn't excite me. The value for money is so-so. Expectations were probably too high. I include several photos. Greetings.

The central market or San Lorenzo Market is a place that is hard to miss in Florence. Mercato Central is a fairly new market, the result of urban planning. In 1874, Giovanni Mengoni was invited to design it, the same one who would create the famous Vittorio Emanuele Gallery in Milan in the future and die during its construction. Inspired by the Parisian architecture of the Second Empire, Mengoni created a building made of cast iron, steel and concrete with wide glazing, which even now, due to the abundance of light, creates the illusion of an open-air market. Now San Lorenzo can be conditionally divided into 3 large parts. There is a food market on the ground floor, a food court on the second floor and an open-air leather goods and souvenirs market on 3 sides of the indoor market. The grocery market is open from Monday to Saturday from 7:00 to 14:00, the food court is open daily from 10:00 to midnight. Of course, I bypassed all three, but purposefully came to the food court and the leather market. If the grocery market is definitely not the cheapest option in the city, then the food court, in my opinion, is the best opportunity to try a lot in one place at quite reasonable prices. The most popular "feature" on San Lorenzo lampredotto. This is a simplified version of the Florentine dish -trippa alla fiorentina, cow's stomach, cleaned of fat and cooked in a sauce of tomatoes, celery, carrots and garlic. Lampredotto is not prepared from the whole stomach, but from the 4th department (rennet). If five years ago I found only one point for cooking lampredotto, now there are several of them. In addition to the food court, there is an excellent selection of drinks. I tasted one of Italy's best wines, Brunello di Montalcino. The wine is expensive, but you can drink a glass. 10 euros per glass. After a hearty snack, you can go to the leather market. The choice is good, the prices are too. It is naive to think that they sell Italian products on it, Well. maybe only in expensive segments. Look for Italian sellers too. There are none of those with whom I have spoken. More and more Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Middle East. Souvenir prices are definitely lower here than in the center. So the San Lorenzo Market is the right place. In every way. ..

Very suggestive location and absolutely worth visiting. You can feel the original nature of the Point of Sale even if now there are more street food stands around the world and managed by anyone but Florentines than the Point of Sale. Prices in line , very crowded and difficult to shoot in summer . It is no longer so difficult to find a place to eat, to try the sandwich with the lampredotto from Lombardi 5 euros . The bathrooms are dirty and crowded despite the staff trying to keep them clean. The ground floor, in my opinion, is much nicer and more livable than the first floor, an area perhaps more characteristic. Recommendation because the atmosphere is very special

Referring to the food hall upstairs, the reality is you are paying top prices and eating on a shared bench with plastic cutlery on paper plates. The food is good no question but it's priced double a local trattoria's prices and equal to a high end restaurant. For example, check out La Capannina Bistrot around the corner. Main courses from €7 in a traditional trattoria. Not worth the prices they are charging.

Mercato Centrale exists in 4 major cities (all at or near train stations). This one in Florence appears to be one of the largest. it has two floors. The first floor is a real market where you can buy groceries (produce, meats, chesses, seafood, herbs, spices, etc.). The second floor is a large food hall with many choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can get just about everything here, from Cappuccino and pastries, to pizza, to sandwiches to sushi! Prices are reasonable but the variety and choices were tough to beat for the us (family of 4 - with 2 college age boys - different appetite and taste preferences). everything we tried was delicious!

This market certainly comes at you with the options. It's quite large, and offers shopping outside and dining inside. There are several restrooms throughout the indoor space and plenty of places to sit down and enjoy the food and/or drinks you may have purchased from one of the many food stalls. You can buy anything from a leather jacket to a Lampredotto to sweets to American BBQ to cheeses and meats and fish. This was one of the spots we returned to frequently, intent on our quest to try all the things and buy all the souvenirs. It does get hot inside, though. There are two corners - that we saw, at least - that have overly large A/C machines, but the air didn't really fill the space and people tended to congregate in front of the huge fans to cool themselves off before having to head back into the sun and the heat. The vendors we did interact with were friendly and funny and willing to share as much information as you could handle about what they were selling that day.

The Mercato Centrale is a wonderful place to spend a little time and money - the bottom floor is bustling with specialty food vendors including olive oils, breads, produce, meats, fresh pasta and a stand selling the very best cantucci cookies. We sampled, bought gifts, and enjoyed ourselves exploring. But upstairs is a whole other world, it's a giant food court with all kinds of specialty purveyors, and you can camp out at a central table or at the wine bar (which we did) and sample the wares. We very much enjoyed the wine bar selection, many rarer wines by the glass. There are two stands selling pizza, we went for the square rustic pan style and were rewarded with slices with fresh, delicious toppings. The gelato stand and pastry stand were also of very high quality, with some unique flavors. The sfogliatelle I had was delicate and delicious. We also bought some unique table linens at another stand. Everything was clean, well run and easy to enjoy. I would run back, and maybe do a cooking class next time.