{"id":27057,"date":"2022-11-07T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=27057"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:16:22","slug":"vegetarian-restaurants-in-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devourtours.com\/blog\/vegetarian-restaurants-in-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Vegetarian Restaurants in Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, if you asked the average Florentine waiter for a meat-free meal and then took issue with the bits of pancetta in your greens, you’d hear something like, “That’s not meat, it’s flavor”. Completely devoid of the sarcasm you might assume would accompany such a retort.<\/span>

Yes, Florence loves its <\/span>carne<\/span><\/i>. But these days, the number of vegetarian restaurants in Florence (not to mention the vegan restaurants!) means you may never have to have uncomfortable conversations with waiters again.<\/span><\/p>

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It’s never been easier to be vegetarian in Florence with these outstanding veggie-focused restaurants. Photo credit: Engin Akyurt<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>

In fact, since so much of modern <\/span>Tuscan cuisine has roots in peasant cooking<\/span><\/a> (when meat was too expensive for most people to have regularly), there are some <\/span>traditional Tuscan dishes<\/span><\/a> — dishes you’ll find at restaurants all over Florence — that are <\/span>inherently<\/span><\/i> vegetarian.<\/span><\/p>

Two hearty soups, <\/span>ribollita<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>pappa al pomodoro<\/span><\/i>, are perfect examples of this. The former combines vegetables and stale bread (as a thickener) with white beans. While the latter is a cozy tomato soup that also uses stale bread to make it thicker.<\/span><\/p>

Vegetarian dining in Florence isn’t just about humble fare, though, as any pasta dish topped with delicate <\/span>shavings of Tuscan truffles<\/span><\/a> demonstrates.<\/span><\/p>

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Perfectly delicious and wonderfully decedent, truffle pasta might be the perfect vegetarian pasta dish. Photo credit: Vincent Döring<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Of course, at most Florentine restaurants, you may still need to confirm that, for instance, the soups are being made with vegetable stock instead of meat-based stock. This is why some diners may prefer to seek out the truly vegetarian eateries in the Tuscan capital.<\/span><\/p>

And, speaking of vegan restaurants, our list of <\/span>Florence’s top vegan restaurants<\/span><\/a> features five places that we opted not to include below. So, combining the two lists means your dining options are even more extensive.<\/span><\/p>

Buon appetito!<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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