Florence restaurants

(this is a very incomplete list, and is based on a very small sample. to check for completeness, i would need to experiment with randomly selected establishments and this is beyond the prospect of this research)

we had some bad luck with restaurants the first two days, seems like finding a good and reasonably priced restaurant in florence is just as hard as finding one in Kikar Atarim. we therefore decided to ask for recommendations from people we sort of trust (like my advisor...). since this knowledge is probably more priceless than my thesis, i will document it here for future reference and future generations.

starting with 'Trattoria', which is the general name for a restaurant-like establishment. a fact that i completely ignored, when we arrived at the conference dinner meeting point and i argued that this can't be the place we're supposed to go to - we are supposed to meet at a restaurant named 'Il Cambi' and this place is 'Trattoria'! how embarrassing.
The place, however, was fabulous. i mean, the food was. well, it was the conference dinner, so it was free, and possibly expensive. but free. so who cares?!?
we were served the traditional florentine/tuscan cuisine, which included some broschettas with chicken liver, Ribollita (Tuscan Vegetable and Bread Soup), pasta (a 'first course' in Italy); then came the main course - meat, meat, meat! red meat!
mmmmmmmmmmm
i should add some pictures here. definitely.
the one thing i could not understand was those people who ate the side of white beans.
anyway, it's RISTORO DI CAMBI - VIA S. ONOFRIO 1R ZONA PORTA SAN FREDIANO, and they have a website too.

ROSSOPOMODORO
this one was actually recommended by the girl who sits at the front desk at our tiny hotel. this one seems to have had the best pizza of them all, but we didn't sample pizza everywhere. as i said, i'm incomplete.
Piazza del Mercato Centrale, 22/r Firenze

Trattoria "Le Mossacce"
Dani marked that one on the map, he didn't know the name of the place, but noted that they have a large green sign saying 'Trattoria' by it, not too far from another place with yellow lamps.
It's a tiny place, looks like a workers restaurant, and luckily we could find a table right away although we were like 10 people. we got some of the traditional tuskan bloody steak and salad. Via del Proconsolo 55R. www

[getting tired and being eaten alive by mosquitoes. so i'll stop here for now, and add some more stuff later on! to come: Yellow, Osteria Dell Agnolo, Noir, Michael Collins Pub]

Yellow:
That's the restaurant with the yellow ball-shaped lights. We got pizza - and it was good! the prices were reasonable. i think the thing to mention about this place is the service - the waitress was actually nice!
i guess i'm used to the waiters in america, where they come to your table with a fake smile and ask you how you're doing and help you with the menu. (as you all know, i do have complaints about american service as well, but that's not for now). here, in florence, waiters usually barked at us, were not nice or polite or anything. a normal situation is when a waiter approaches the table with a notepad and says YES or nothing at all, and just waits for you to say what you'd like to eat. and if you as a question (e.g., "how big is the lasagna?") they interrupt it as a request ("ok, one lasagna"...)
anyway, the service was good and the pizza too, so thumbs up.

Osteria Dell Agnolo
we saw this place a bunch of times on our way to and from the hotel. the first night it was full of people, so we didn't go in, and eventually we went there on the last night. assaf was very happy with the gnocci (tomato sauce) and i was happy with whatever i had. they have a big chunk of parmaisan cheese that you can just graba piece of on your way in/out. mmmm!!


Noir
a bar on the Arno river, one bridge down from the ponte vecchio. I suppose they have decent drinks, but the taquila in the picture was terrible. nice view of the river though, and you can walk with your drink accross the street and just stand by the wall overlooking the water.

Michael Collins Pub
in Piazza della Signoria, by the statue of the horse. it's just a bar, no food to speak of, but during happy hour you can pay with your us$ and 1$=1euro!!! best deal in town, really.