Buca Mario
- Piazza degli Ottaviani, 16r
- 055 214179
- www.bucamario.com
This buca (the name by which any typical Florentine restaurant housed in a basement is known) is based in the sixteenth-century Palazzo Niccolini and counts celebrities such as Anthony Hopkins, Billy Joel, Justin Bieber, Kirsten Dunst, Andrea Bocelli and Fiorello among its patrons, and all those who are looking for authentic Florentine cooking. This old-fashioned restaurant makes use of simple and genuine ingredients to prepare traditional dishes like artichoke flan, ribollita, pappardelle with wild boar meat sauce and barbecued steak. Distinguishing marks: a private room with rear exit.
