Burro & Acciughe — Restaurant in Florence

Our family chose this restaurant based on its positive reviews for seafood in Florence and made a reservation for a party of five. However, we were shocked by the appalling and openly racist behavior of a waitress. I am white, as are my parents, while my husband and I are an interracial couple. The difference in how we were treated was glaring.

The waitress spoke to me and my family in one manner but addressed my husband with clear disdain and open racism. She raised her voice at him and treated him with a level of disrespect that was both humiliating and unacceptable. When we requested to be served by another waiter, she continued to return to our table, refusing to step away, as though determined to assert her hostility.

When we asked for the bill, desperate to leave, she deliberately stalled—clearing the entire table while making us wait for over 10 minutes. We ultimately had to approach the reception desk ourselves to finally pay and leave.

It became painfully clear that this behavior was not an isolated incident but rather tolerated, if not encouraged, by the management. Our request for a different waiter was simply ignored.

If you are not Italian, especially if you are part of a mixed-race family, I strongly urge you to avoid this place. The experience left us deeply hurt and with our evening ruined. This was, without a doubt, the worst dining experience we...

Utter perfection. Every dish was stunning, the hostess looked after us, and was pleasant and engaged, made the whole experience fun and easy!

We had anchovies on toast with lots of butter (can't go wrong), the yellow tail ceviche (beautiful, delicate), we shared the tagliolini with mullet roe for our primi (rich but light, fresh and morish) - oh, and every dish we chose to share came split onto two plates, a nice touch! -

We finished with our secondi - the fried seafood platter and the octopus, both the best examples of each we've tried (and we eat a lot of seafood around the Mediterranean).

It's an odd addition in a review, but it was noticeable that attention had been paid to the sound in the space. Lots of sound dampening "furniture" and just panels - the result is that, what would probably be a loud and reverberous space otherwise, was pleasant, intimate and we could hear each other fine without raising our voice. Just another touch that made this restaurant special.

Would recommend to anyone looking for a quality fish restaurant in Florence....

A great seafood place in Firenze. Specializing in anchovies, as apparent from its name. Francesca greeted us at the entrance and helped us with humor and in her Italian way to sort out through not extensive, but creative menu. We had marinated anchovies, which were great, not too acidic, but just right - recommend. Then we had fried anchovies with sage - a creative dish with everything being lightly fried in "tempura"-like mix, not oily, with clear taste of fish fillet - very recommended. Then we had a fried red fish, a beautifully presented dish. That dish could be more interesting with an addition - a light sauce or something similar to underline the richness of fish meat. I could not leave without trying their version of tiramisu, with a notch of almonds flavor in the base crust (not the usual coffee soaked finger cookies), a super gentle cream and a couple leaves of bitter chocolate on top - a delicious desert. All that was accompanied by a glass of Fiano wine. Great value for your money due to exquisite...