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Where I Ate in Italy: Honest Reviews from Florence & Rome
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items I ate my way through Florence and Rome and these are the food spots I actually tried along the way. Some were viral places I had saved before the trip, others were completely spontaneous finds, and not all of them lived up to the hype. I’m sharing wh...
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Florence
The food spots I tried while exploring Florence, from viral sandwich shops and pizza to gelato, bakeries and random Mercato Centrale finds. Some were places I had saved before the trip, while others were completely spontaneous stops.
We basically kept following Venchi throughout the entire trip, it was the only gelato place we tried, and we loved it every single time. We also tried their chocolate, my favorite is the pink-wrapped hazelnut one. I liked it so much that when I got h...
Venchi
This place gets hyped up a lot on TikTok, so I was curious to see whether it was actually worth it. We randomly passed by at night and, surprisingly, there was barely anyone there, so I ordered the four-cheese sandwich (second picture).
At first, it...
Pino's Sandwiches
I ordered an avocado and egg toast from here (second picture) and it was honestly so good, especially the guacamole.
I ate it sitting on the steps of Mercato Centrale, and they were extremely generous with the eggs—to the point that pieces kept fall...
Veg & Veg
We were around Ponte Vecchio when I suddenly started craving something sweet and spotted this place. I ordered a Nutella cannolo (second picture) and my mom got the pistachio one, and both were so good. Honestly, I don’t think we had a single bad can...
Ginos Bakery
We ordered two pastas here: pesto and cheese with olive oil. The pesto one was good and I enjoyed it, but the cheese and olive oil pasta really didn’t work for me. I couldn’t even finish it.
So this was a mixed experience for us rather than somewher...
PASTA FRESCA
Unfortunately, this was the worst food experience of the trip for me.
We waited for more than an hour and a half, and genuinely expected the pizza to be worth the struggle. We ordered the Napoli pizza (second picture), and it was unbelievably salty....
GUSTA PIZZA
Rome
Everything I ate and genuinely remember from Rome, including famous dessert spots, bakeries, fresh pasta, sandwiches and little Mercato Centrale discoveries. I’m sharing what I ordered, what stood out and which places I’d actually go back to.
Our Airbnb in Rome was close to Mercato Centrale, so this basically became our breakfast spot every morning.
And seriously: get the cornetto.
These were the best cornetti we had during the entire trip. We tried both the pistachio and Nutella versio...
il pane i dolci
After my Gusta Pizza disaster in Florence, I was honestly a little nervous about trying another famous pizza spot.
Thankfully, this was NOTHING like that experience.
I ordered a pizza slice here (second picture) and it was so good. The crust, toppi...
Antico Forno Roscioli
We ordered two different sandwiches for me and my mom, but somehow ended up being given the exact same one. By that point we were so tired that neither of us had the energy to go back and ask them to change it.
The sandwich we did get had pistachio ...
All'Antico Vinaio
This was another reminder that I just could not get myself to love the very al dente pasta texture in Italy.
We ordered two different pastas and I got the truffle one. The sauce itself was actually really good — rich, flavorful and definitely the be...
PASTASCIUTTA
I honestly don’t remember exactly what we ordered here — I think it may have been some kind of strawberry tiramisu or cheesecake (second picture) — but I definitely remember how sweet it was.
And I say that as someone who was actively looking for de...
POMPI
We stopped here for a cornetto and coffee and unfortunately neither was good.
The cornetto was the strangest part because as you can see in the second picture attached it genuinely seemed oily, which is not something I ever expected to say about a c...
Don Nino