Osteria Tripperia Il Magazzino — Restaurant in Florence

Not an enjoyable meal or experience. Travelling from NYC and have travelled internationally for decades. First trip to Italy and noticed many restaurants will bring out bread without telling you that it is not complimentary. I get it...tourists don't know any better and in the UK and US, bread is always complimentary at restaurants when servers bring it to the table without patrons requesting. The server brought out bread to us and we refused. He came back back moments latera with the bread and snarkily said "In Italy, bread is free". Ummm, nah, it isn't actually. Ordered fried tripe appetizer which came with a half filled dipping sauce. Was OK, very uninspired. Ordered a meatball appetizer as well and it desperately needed an accompanying sauce. My main was ravioli...verrrrrrry basic. Super disappointing. I do not recommend this...

That is a really, really good restaurant. We were told this restaurant is on the 10 best restaurant list in Fioreza. I don't know about the other 9, but I have really no doubt this one should be on the list. Of course, this is a really good spot to eat tripe. This is why it is called a tripperia. If ou are not inclined into eating innards, there is a lot of other choices. A "check" means innards in the menu. No check, you are safe. This being said, I really enjoyed and deeply loved my plate of tripe a la Fiorentina. The Osso Bucco was quite a surprise as there was zero tomato involved but beans. Really good beans. According to my parents, their pasta were quite good. They speak Italian, French, English and even a group of Japanese were able to order ... Go there,...

Server (the older man, likely owner) was very rude and acted as if we didn’t belong there. He also yelled at two other women customers who requested a menu in English - even though there clearly was one as we had been given one. When Italian customers arrived the servers were much more friendly.

The food was hit or miss. The lampredotto meatballs and the two pasta dishes were very good. We had high hopes. And then our mains arrived… and then it took a turn for the worse.

The osso bucco was barely edible. So undercooked and chewy that it felt I could have had a better dish at a school cafeteria. Unfortunate because this was highly rated and recommended. The tripe dish was ok. The bread was very stale and tasted like it was several days old from a...