Ristorante Cafaggi

Happened to come by this place by chance, but turned out to be one of the best meals we've had in Florence. We enjoyed the experience so much that we went back the next night with a couple of friends who were also in Florence. Good food, warm service and great atmosphere. They have a daily changing menu, but we enjoyed the zucchini and saffron pasta, pumpkin chips, fried sole with butter garlic sauce and ragu.

We really liked this place. Went there twice and both time had very good food and experience. If you want traditional good italian food, quick and nice service, in family style restaurant with very reasonable prices it is place to visit.

This was recommended to me by colleagues. It is traditional Tuscan food. What I love about it is has a long generation of being a family run restaurant ( 100+ years) and still going. I don't eat meat but everything is too quality. I had their famous Pici all'aglione a red garlicky sauce... yum yum 😋😋 and salad. So if your party is mix of vegetarian and meat eaters this is the place. Local Italians dine here too so it's legite 😊.

Amazing Vongole. (if you want vongole only with clams, you need to tell when ordering.) The risotto was unforgettably delicious The vongole is extremly delicious.

A family-run Italian restaurant, over 100 years, with excellent food quality and service. The price of its Firenze steak is reasonable, €55 per kg, while many restaurants in Firenze are overcharging tourists for almost 300%

Very sweet family. Good was delicious even for my picky family who had just moved from Vietnam and is not used to western flavors. Everything was delicious, the prices were more than fair, and the service was impeccable. This occasion dining out was for my daughter's birthday, and before we left, they remembered and pulled her back and offered her flowers. Definitely will come back. Highly recommended

We had a beautiful dinner here, place recommended by a friend from Florence. It was a lovely surprise that its still family run and owned. I wish I could share pictures of food but we were very hungry… I can’t imagine you could go wrong with anything but the meat is a star on the menu. We loved the risotto too. The atmosphere and interior is so beautiful and so original

Food and atmosphere felt like a homecooked meal, the pici was so good we ordered 2. The risotto was excellent as well. We felt the portions were slightly smaller than other restaurants in the area, but I'd take it over the comfort and quality of the food. Our server was very sweet!

Came by for lunch as I was visiting Florence. This was recommended to me by a local. I got the mussels and clams spaghetti. Delicious! Best one I've had yet so far. They've been around for decades and decades. Service was great. Lots of seating. Great price as well. Definitely recommend if you're in the area!

This has been our most authentic meal so far. Cafaggi has been owned by the same family since 1922. The decor looks 50 years old. The dining rooms are plain. There were a lot of locals in attendance. The staff were charming and helpful. It felt as if we were invited to an unpretentious friend's house for dinner. We were started off with some typical Tuscan bread. This restaurant is a bargain. We were recommended a very good bottle of vermintino for €20. My buddy started off with pasta with lamb ragu- it was excellent. Our wives split an order of cannelloni to start. It may have been the best thing that we ate there. The bechamel sauce was ethereal. I started with a hearty bowl of ribollita. It's a soup but was so thick and hearty that it was like eating a stew. One of our party tried the grilled squid. It was stuffed with bread crumbs and was really good. My buddy had fried shrimp and squid. It was cooked perfectly. My wife had a very good order of sole, which was filleted tableside. I enjoyed the pork mixed grill which was accompanied by beans that had a deep savory flavor. Cafaggi offers a two course special for €27. Both of the dishes that I wanted were on the special menu. We split an excellent plate of biscotti and vin santo for dessert. This was a great meal and a great experience. It gave us a sense of what dining in Florence must have been like in the pre-Instagram age. Highly recommend!

Wow, what an amazing meal. Cute place off street with a small street side outdoor section too. Very busy lunch time crowd but still very good service. I had the Pappardelle with Wild Boar Ragoût. It was fantastic. The seasoning and flavors were so, so good. I tried the Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Mixed Salad too. Very tasty. This is one of the best meals (the best meal?) I had on my 2+ week trip. Definitely give them a try especially if you are near Accademia or the Basilica.

Family neighborhood restaurant that I am assuming hasn't changed in 50 years, and I mean that in a good way. The tagliatelle with squash blossoms and saffron was absolutely the best I had our entire week in Florence. Grilled squid and salmon also good. Fried artichokes could have used a little more flavor. Tiramisu is yummy.

Cafaggi is great Italian restaurant with Tuscany cuisine. The selection of food is great here. The dish prepared has the local flavor with local ingredients. I think this a great restaurant in Florence. During the time we visited Florence at begin of June, the baby artichokes is famous local dish. The leave is deep fried and soft like a fried okra. If you come to Tuscany are during June, I would recommend this dish. This restaurant also have good appetizers. One of the appetizers is the Tuscan Crostini with Chicken Liver Paste. When it go with Prosciutto. It is the great appetizers. The chicken livers paste was well mixed with spice and balance in taste. Our main entree are the Calf's Ossobuco with stir fry fresh porcini mushroom. The meat from the calf is nice and tender. The mushroom sauce accompanying well for the dish. The other dish is the Florentine tripe and lampredotto (restaurant house recipe). This a special of the restaurant. It is good experience to try this dish. The restaurant is very affordable and reasonable price. The service is excellent. Love the local setting and not much of tourist.

We ate here 4 nights in a row on our Honeymoon 15 years ago and it was amazing. On this trip we were in Florence for 5 nights and ate at Cafaggi twice and it is still amazing local food. It's simply unpretentious delicious Tuscan cooking at its finest. The menu hasn't changed a lot in 15 years. The key is to see what is displayed in their display window and order that. This time it was Florentine steak one night and Mediterranean Swordfish the second night. Both amazing. Artichokes are being harvested so we ordered fried artichokes as a side, something new for us. They were crunchy on the outside, soft and velvety on the inside and very delicious with just a little lemon juice squeezed over the top. Highly recommend this restaurant.

This place reminded me of my Italian grandmother's house, and that is a compliment. It's not fancy, it's just great authentic Italian food. My brother in law recommended it to me and it happened to be around the corner from the apartment I was staying at during my month in Florence. The beef stewed in red wine was divine, and the zucchini was better than any I've had before! Loved it.

Have eaten here twice now as it is nearby and they are so nice. Excellent pastas, great seafood, and wonderful meat dishes. Peposo (beef stew with red wine and peppercorn sauce), great steaks cooked perfectly. Everything was great including the house wines, the table service, and the suggestions from the waiters. A 100 year old ristorante owned still by the same family, who like to do things simply and right. Highly highly recommended.

Excellent food! Authentic Italian restaurant with typical regional cuisine. It is close to main areas but not in the middle of it, which is a good thing.

This is the real Italian Nan and pop food you have been searching for, it's where all the locals will be and a place you will be greeted with a smile and welcomed . If your expecting fine dinning this is not it, however if your sick of eating restaurant food and just want a home cooked meal that's made with passion and pride then come here.

We had dinner at Trattoria CaFaggi and ordered the following: - Tuscan crostini with chicken liver pate - Vegetable soup - Spagetti with mussels and clams. - Lamb chops with salad - Calf osso bucco / oxtail and artichokes The crostini was served on bread, not toasted, the liver was good, not overly flavorful considering it was liver. I liked the vegetable soup, everything boiled until very soft including kale carrots tomatoes and other veggies. The spaghetti had a good number of mussels and clams, small clams but flavorful. It had butter and Italian parsley in the noodles as a base, maybe a bit of olive oil. The lamb chops were served with a green salad with tomatoes, radicchio and a variety of mixed greens, 4 chops were provided. The osso bucco was from veal, a large cross section of well cooked meat with a good amount of marrow. Excellent meal! We were so full that we had to skip dessert.

Fun mom and pop place to eat. The food was spectacular! We started with the cheese plate. Omg. My wife had the grilled calamari. Spectacular. I had some pasta. It was also very good. Glad we stopped in. They have English menus.

On a recent visit to Florence, I ate here twice, once for lunch and once for dinner. It was just a couple of minutes walk from where I was staying and had a nice appearance and some interesting 1950's "moderne" elements. The dining rooms had a very mixed clientele of seeming regulars, some families, some foreign visitors and, on a Saturday, a few groups having been to the Mercato Centrale and now ready to chow down. The staff was very helpful and friendly with no pretenses whatsoever. It's family run and a pair of somewhat elderly and very well-fed brothers calmly move through the space making sure all is well. At dinner, one of the brothers who served as the cured meats counterman stopped at my table and explained the differences among the different prosciutti on my plate and which came from what part of the pig. All the standard Florentine dishes are on the menu and their tripa fiorentina was as good as it gets. They also specialize in fish and, while the choices were not plentiful, a grilled swordfish steak was succulent and perfectly cooked. As to their pastas, all varieties and sauces are represented and their chicken liver paté crostini are still vivid in my memory. The very affordable wine list will also not disappoint. All good!

Cafaggi is a solid restaurant, worthy of the positive reviews. We had a very good meal with good service. We had both pasta and meat dishes. Both were prepared well. Typical of Tuscany the meat is good quality. There is no outdoor seating. Prices were reasonable and the house wine acceptable.

Cafaggi is a gem of a restaurant, exemplifying the values and standards of Italian, particularly Tuscan, cuisine. Understated, but with a wonderful menu of expertly prepared specialties, Cafaggi does not rush its patrons, does not put on airs, and does not go out of its way to promote itself or take heed of passing fads. It simply is what it is, priding itself on a long and established reputation. The best foods to order are fresh fish and seafood, such as the superb octopus salad, a blend of warm, tender octopus on top of a bed of lightly dressed raw vegetables, chief among them carrots. The blend of textures and flavors made this dish a standout. The salmon and trout are also outstanding in the freshness of the meat, as well as the way that the chef executes the finished dishes. The pastas and gnocchi that we had the day we visited were all distinctive. Sometimes, a kitchen has a sauce or two on the stove, and the staff doctors them up, depending on what is ordered. This did not appear to be the case for our gnocchi with meat sauce, tagliatelle, or rigatoni with buffalo mozzarella and eggplant. Each dish was resplendent with flavors and expertly cooked pasta and gnocchi. My favorite was the rigatoni. The tomato sauce was rich, perfectly coating each pasta tube, and the eggplant and mozzarella were liberally distributed throughout. The famous bistecca alla Fiorentina is beautifully done at this restaurant as well, although it is not necessarily widely promoted. The restaurant reminded me in some ways of the (sadly) now closed New York City establishment, Le Veau d'Or, which persisted in championing classic French cuisine in spite of changing tastes, both culinary and style-wise. While Le Veau d'Or maintained its French standards, Cafaggi maintains its Tuscan standards, proudly, but quietly. To miss out on Cafaggi is to miss out on what it means to dine in Florence as a resident more so than a tourist. I would not want anyone to miss it.

Service was very poor, huge delays in bringing food to table, had to ask for bill three times. Very disappointing attitude to us shown at the table. Clearly don't want my business, so won't be back. Avoid this place, there are plenty of better options in the area too.

Our family of four is just full of smiles of satisfaction. The star of tonight's show was undoubtedly the Spaghetti alla Vongole and Mussels. The salmon was grilled to perfection. The Osso di Bucco was tasty. The Gnocchi with meat sauce seemed made by Nona and heavy but yummy. The Panna Cotta with Frutti di Boscchi was light and fresh! The family wants to come back for more Spaghetti alla Vongola and we will do our best to return before leaving. The service is warm and efficient. Overall a successful and satisfying experience. It is a short walk from our apartment across the Accademia.

Chef Leonardo is amazing. Work up an apatite and go for the steak Florentine! The charing of the meat along with the spices is perfection.

One of the best meals in Italy thus far. The steak was one of the best I have ever had. Service was very pleasant albeit a bit slow at times. That was fine for us. Meals come out as they are ready. Not everything came out at once. We were happy with that.