I' Brindellone

A loud, friendly San Frediano trattoria on Piazza Piattellina, where Fiorentina memorabilia covers the walls and the kitchen turns out truffled taglierini, peposo, ribollita and bistecca alla fiorentina.

I' Brindellone is the kind of San Frediano trattoria that feels like a neighborhood living room, its walls hung with Fiorentina pennants, old newspaper front pages and straw-wrapped flasks. The printed menu sticks to the Florentine canon: taglierini buried under shaved truffle, peposo, ribollita, trippa alla fiorentina and bistecca sold by weight from the grill. Start with coccoli, the puffy fried dough, alongside prosciutto and stracchino. In warm weather tables spill onto Piazza Piattellina behind a hedge of planters, and bookings are taken by phone. It is simple, generous cooking in a room with plenty of character, and the kind of place worth returning to for the peposo alone.