Honestly I did not understand why this restaurant is in the best 101 steak restaurants of the world. Visiting Florence with family decided to give it a try and add another restaurant of the 101 list to my own. Made a reservation and could be fit that very night. Never go there without a reservation: wait list is usually long. The restaurant itself is nice but nothing really special about it. I sincerely don’t think the restaurant needs to be fancy or sophisticated to be a good one, as long it is comfortable as the food is the one I am focused on. Service was ok, friendly and young staff,. The salon is a bit noisy and very crowded as it is a very touristic restaurant… but we were fine with that too. Let’s talk about the food. That is what really matters. And well. I wish I could tell you different but the food we ordered was a really average and we were expecting a Best 101. Salad wa nice, but far from special. Good ingredients, olive oil and that’s it. The pasta dish we ordered (a papardlle with a wild boar ragout) was average being optimistic. The French fries were the same. No flaws but average. And the meet you must be asking! Well. The meet was the deception. Boring. Very e expensive and very small portions for the buck! Cooked at the correct point we ordered, but no char flavors, no crispy crust. Nothing. Very regular and average steak. Disappointing. To be fair with the restaurant their crudo di manzo was really nice and by far the best dish that night.

I’ve been to at least 10 restaurants of the 101 list. This one was by far the less exciting of them all. I’m not saying it is a bad restaurant. It is not. We had a good meal there. An expensive and ordinary good meal. But being in a list like 101 comes with a responsibility. You should exceed on every aspect, specially in the steaks. I can name you dozens of steak houses around the world that are years light better than this one and are not in the list.