The Best Florence Michelin Star Restaurants

Florence has nine Michelin-starred restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026, counting Fiesole in the hills above the city: Enoteca Pinchiorri, with three stars; Santa Elisabetta, with two; and seven with one star, Atto di Vito Mollica, Borgo San Jacopo, Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, Il Palagio, Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo, Saporium Firenze and Serrae Villa Fiesole. Two more starred tables, Osteria di Passignano and La Torre, are in Chianti, within an hour of the city. Below is each one, where it is and what to expect, and the homes from our Tuscany villa rentals from which you can walk to dinner, or be driven back to the hills.

Stars as listed in the MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026. The 2027 edition is presented on 12 November 2026, and this guide is updated when the new selection is out.

Florence’s Michelin stars at a glance

Source: the MICHELIN Guide’s list of starred restaurants in Florence.

Three stars: Enoteca Pinchiorri

Florence’s only three-star restaurant opened in 1972, the work of Giorgio Pinchiorri and Annie Féolde, in a seventeenth-century palazzo on Via Ghibellina, a few minutes from Santa Croce. The dining rooms are all frescoes, paintings and fresh flowers; the kitchen builds on exceptional ingredients and a strongly Italian identity, without ostentation, and the pastry kitchen is known for its soufflé. The cellar is the other half of the legend, and one of the great wine collections in Italy. It is the table to book first when a Florence trip is built around one dinner.

Two stars: Santa Elisabetta

Santa Elisabetta sits inside the Torre della Pagliazza, a Byzantine tower on Piazza Santa Elisabetta, a few minutes from the Duomo, which served as a women’s prison in the twelfth century. The room holds only a handful of tables. Chef Rocco De Santis cooks imaginative Mediterranean dishes with roots in the south of Italy, much of it from the sea, with tasting menus in the evening and a shorter menu at lunch.

One star: seven tables in and above the city

Atto di Vito Mollica

In the Corte degli Imperatori of Palazzo Portinari Salviati on Via del Corso, the old Salviati family residence, Vito Mollica cooks precise, elegant Italian dishes beneath sixteenth-century frescoes by Alessandro Allori, to the sound of a fountain.

Borgo San Jacopo

Just over the Ponte Vecchio in the Oltrarno, Claudio Mengoni’s kitchen serves creative meat and fish with Tuscan touches, from a tasting menu or à la carte. Two coveted balcony tables hang over the Arno; ask for one when you book.

Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura

On Piazza della Signoria, Massimo Bottura’s Florentine table is run by head chef Takahiko Kondo: Italian at heart, with Japanese accents and Bottura signatures such as tortellini in Parmigiano cream.

Il Palagio

On the ground floor of Palazzo della Gherardesca on Borgo Pinti, under Murano chandeliers, chef Paolo Lavezzini offers two tasting menus and an à la carte of creative, unfussy dishes built on first-rate ingredients.

Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo

New to the guide in 2026: a small L-shaped room with green boiserie in the historic centre, where Paulo Airaudo’s tasting menus, of four courses at least, build each dish from a few elements worked with precision.

Saporium Firenze

On the Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, in the Oltrarno, chef Ariel Hagen cooks at an open kitchen with produce from a 120-hectare organic estate in the Sienese countryside, which supplies about 80 per cent of the ingredients; the menu follows what the farm is harvesting.

Serrae Villa Fiesole

In a historic villa in Fiesole, on the hill above the city, Serrae pairs an open kitchen and light-filled rooms with a summer terrace that looks down on Florence. The cooking is Italian with Tuscan touches, with meat, fish and vegetarian dishes. It is the starred table for an evening with the city at your feet rather than around you.

Within an hour: two starred tables in Chianti

Osteria di Passignano stands beside the Badia a Passignano, an abbey where monks still live and where the barrels of the wines that bear its name age in the cellar. Chef Matteo Lorenzini balances local tradition with a more contemporary reading, often with fish, using vegetables and herbs from the abbey’s garden, and the wine list runs to more than a thousand labels. La Torre, in a twelfth-century castle near Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, offers three tasting menus, from the vegetable garden, the land and the sea, and a summer terrace over the hills. Both have one star. From Villa Matteo in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, they are dinners in the same corner of Chianti. For starred tables across the region, see our Michelin star restaurants in Tuscany.

Where to stay for a Michelin dinner in Florence

The choice is between walking home and being driven home. In the historic centre, every starred table is a short walk away; in the hills, the evening ends with a driver and a quiet terrace. Our Florence villas and apartments cover both.

For a longer look at the options, see our guide to where to stay in Florence, or our villas near Florence.

Booking a starred table in Florence

• Book with the stay. The rooms are small, Santa Elisabetta has only a handful of tables, and Friday and Saturday evenings go first.
• Consider lunch. Some starred kitchens, Santa Elisabetta among them, serve a shorter menu at midday, which leaves the evening free.
• Ask for the table you want. The balcony at Borgo San Jacopo and the terrace at Serrae are worth requesting by name.
• Mention allergies and celebrations when you book, not at the table.
• Plan the way home. The historic centre is closed to most traffic, so from the hills, arrange a driver for the evening.

Our concierge, included with every stay, books the tables and the driver home, and adds a private chef at the house for the nights you stay in. For the rest of the trip, see our private tours of Tuscany.

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