Trattoria
da Giorgio
- Via del Palazzuolo 100R
- Florence, Italy
- South of Santa Maria Novella Station
- Phone: +39 055 284302
- Website: trattoriadagiorgio.it
Prices: $$$$
We ate here three years ago and
loved the place. Great food, lots of it, and ridiculously cheap prices compared
to the rest of Florence and its overpriced tourist traps. So we returned once
again and, again, we were not disappointed!
They open for dinner at 6pm, rather
early by Italian standards, but make sure you get there before 8pm unless you
want to wait. They have a sign-up sheet at the entrance if all of the tables
are full, so simply jot your name down if you cannot find a seat. Arriving around 7:45pm on a Wednesday night, we were quickly seated and shortly thereafter our waiter arrived with our water and a half-liter of red wine.
The menu is fixed price, €13 for
lunch and €14 for dinner, a pittance for what you receive in return and there
is no “ala carte” menu. For that very reasonable price, you are entitled to a ½
liter of water, ¼ liter of wine (per person/ red or white), primo (first course
– pasta, soup, etc), secondo (second course – meat dish), and contorno (vegetable
– salad, potatoes, artichokes, broccoli, etc). Desserts are extra, but quite
cheap at €2 for lemon sorbet or €3 for tiramisu, panna cotta, and cheesecake
among others.
We had the homemade pasta for our
primi, a bigoli (think fat spaghetti) with black truffles and mushrooms and
paccheri con broccoli e salsicce (a large flat noodle in a creamy sauce of
broccoli florettes and sausage). The truffle and mushroom pasta was superb with
rich, earthy tones and unlike more than a few Tuscan restaurants we have been
to recently, perfectly cooked “al dente”. The paccheri con broccoli e salsicce had
a slightly odd taste, almost as if there were tuna in the recipe (I asked and
there was not). It was not bad, but it was not what I was expecting, so my wife
and I swapped plates as she found it quite tasty. I attribute it to a temporary disruption in my palate rather than a problem on their part.
For secondi we both had the
scaloppine marsala e noci (cutlets, pork I believe, in a creamy marsala and
walnut sauce). The meat was juicy and tender and the sauce sublime, reminiscent
of a savory German “rahm” (cream) sauce and one of the best sauces I have had
in recent memory. Our contorni were patate fritte (French fries), perfectly
cooked – crispy and hot – and artichokes marinated in olive oil, also
excellent.
The wine, a local red, was good - lightly
chilled, mildly sparkling, fruity, and slightly sweet. Although very full, we
could not resist sharing a tiramisu (€3). Coming in a rather large cup, there
were layers of saviardi cookies soaked in coffee and sweet mascarpone cheese
sprinkled with cocoa powder as is the tradition.
Once again, we were not disappointed.
In-fact, Trattoria da Giorgio is the “BEST VALUE” in Florence or anywhere else
for that matter. You will not have a better meal anywhere in Italy for €30 …
guaranteed.
CombatCritic Gives Trattoria da
Giorgio 10 Bombs Out Of 10 … More Bombs Are Better ... IT'S "THE BOMB"!
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