La Menagere

La Ménagère

Top choice in San Lorenzo & San Marco


Be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee or cocktails, this industrial-styled space lures Florence's hip brigade. The concept store is a fashionable one-stop shop for chic china and tableware, designer kitchen gear and fresh flowers. For daytime dining, pick from retro sofas in the boutique, banquette seating or bar stools in the bistro or a table between flower pots in the conservatory-style restaurant.

Breakfast – continental or American with pancakes, bacon and eggs – is served until noon, when the casual bistro menu and restaurant tasting menus (€42 to €55) kick in. Jazz soirées and other live music fill the basement after dark (concerts from 9.30pm).


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