David Blog Tour: Mary Hoffman's Five Favourite Things to Eat in Florence!

A late blog tour post - my apologies, we do not have access to the internet at home, having just moved in - but here it is!

Today I'm very glad to have Mary Hoffman, the author of David, on the blog to share with you her favourite food - a must read if you're heading off to Florence for a holiday!

• Pizza and a cold beer at Nuti’s in Borgo San Lorenzo

The oldest pizza establishment in Florence, handily situated between the San Lorenzo

market and the cathedral square. I was last there on the 1st of April 2011 and had the artichoke pizza, as I usually do. Once when I was sitting outside, which is the best place, a hanging flower pot came crashing down between my table and the next, fortunately on to an empty chair!

• Coffee at Gilli’s in the Piazza della Repubblica

Oh, the pastries have to be seen to be believed! We went here in April too, for a celebratory “tea” (no tea actually consumed) I had a fruit tart and a spremuta of grapefruit and my companions had a millefoglie chocolate pastry with pistachio milk-shake and a very superior individual apple pie with a fruit smoothie.

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Pumpkin flower risotto at Il Santo Bevitore

This restaurant is a find of my youngest daughter’s and she says I should stop telling people about it. Oops! We had our best dinner of the week there in April, with black Sicilian wine – yum!

• Ice-cream at Festival or Vivoli Gelateria – coffee, nocciola or giandiuja (or all 3)

Italian ice-cream is so delicious it would be a crime not to eat it or at at the very least rude. You can tell how honest I’m being about my favourite things to eat because I went here on our last day in Florence in April and had coffee and nocciola flavours.

• Pasta all’olio e aglio practically anywhere.

With lashings of fresh parsley and some chilli.

YUM. I know, I'm hungry too :) Thank you to Mary for sharing (and making us drool over) these lovely delicacies - one thing's for sure, when I get to Florence I'm definitely not missing these!

You can follow Mary for more updates about the blog tour and David at:

www.maryhoffman.co.uk
www.twitter.com/@MARYMHOFFMAN
www.facebook.com/maryhoffman.fanpage
www.bookmavenmary.blogspot.com

And don't forget to check out the final stop of the blog tour tomorrow!