Eight starred tables, Tuscany’s only three-star kitchen, and dining rooms set inside historic palazzi
The Michelin star restaurants Florence offers number eight in the Michelin Guide Italia 2026, the 71st edition, presented on 19 November 2025. Enoteca Pinchiorri holds three stars and is the only three-star restaurant in Tuscany, Santa Elisabetta holds two, and six more hold one.
The one-star tables are Atto di Vito Mollica, Borgo San Jacopo, Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, Il Palagio, Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo, and Saporium Firenze. Luca’s is the new entry, awarded its first star in the 2026 guide.
Enoteca Pinchiorri stands in a seventeenth-century palazzo on Via Ghibellina. It opened in 1972 as a wine shop with a kitchen and grew into one of the best-known restaurants in Italy, where paintings and frescoes set the tone for the evening. For a city visit, that makes it the natural anchor: the one table in Tuscany that holds the highest rating.
Santa Elisabetta takes a different path. It occupies the Torre della Pagliazza, a tower in the historic centre that has stood for more than fifteen centuries, and it holds two stars. The setting is distinctive, which suits an evening when the room matters as much as the menu.
Together, the two top tiers give a Florence visit a clear shape: one dinner built around the city’s most decorated table, and a second evening in a very different room.
Florence’s one-star restaurants are defined by their settings as much as their cooking. Atto di Vito Mollica occupies the Corte degli Imperatori in Palazzo Portinari, a few steps from the Duomo, with sixteenth-century frescoes. Il Palagio, on Borgo Pinti, sits in Palazzo della Gherardesca and offers three tasting menus, one of them vegetarian. Gucci Osteria stands in Piazza della Signoria, and Borgo San Jacopo, in the Oltrarno just beyond the Ponte Vecchio, keeps two tables on a balcony.
Saporium Firenze, on the Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, is led by Ariel Hagen, a chef from Florence. Luca’s is the 2026 newcomer, a small dining room on the first floor of Hotel La Gemma. Just outside the city, Serrae Villa Fiesole in Fiesole also holds one star and has a view of Florence from its terrace.
For anyone asking about the best Michelin restaurants Florence has, the answer depends on the evening: a palazzo dinner, a quiet tower room, or a newer kitchen finding its voice.
Share your dates and the table you want, and we will take care of the booking
Some of Florence’s starred rooms are small, so tables are limited, and each restaurant sets its own booking terms. It is worth confirming them as soon as your dates are fixed, particularly if the visit falls in a busy season or around a public holiday.
A concierge saves the back-and-forth. We check availability for your dates, hold the tables we can, and tell you plainly when one is not available.
We build the visit around the tables: reservations that fit your dates, a hotel close to the evening, a car timed to the booking, and a plan for the hours around each meal. For other Italian cities, our guides to Michelin-starred restaurants in Rome and Michelin-starred restaurants in Milan follow the same approach, and the Michelin Guide explains how the stars are awarded. Our guide to the best restaurants in Florence covers the city beyond the stars, our fine dining and nightlife service holds tables across the evening, and our business concierge team arranges private dinners for groups.
Eight in the city in the Michelin Guide Italia 2026: one with three stars, one with two, and six with one
Enoteca Pinchiorri, which is also the only three-star restaurant in Tuscany in the 2026 guide
Luca’s by Paulo Airaudo, at Hotel La Gemma
As soon as your dates are fixed, because each restaurant sets its own terms and some of the rooms are small
Every year. The Michelin Guide Italia 2026 was presented on 19 November 2025, so check the current edition before you book
