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The courtyard of a Renaissance palazzo serves as the lounge bar, where a long counter anchors an ambitious cocktail program alongside tapas-style bites. Venture deeper and there are proper dining rooms, the chef's cooking shaped by stints in Australia, Japan, and France. The medieval cellars below host an intimate reservation-only experience pairing avant-garde food with mixology for four guests. Ranked in The World's 50 Best Bars, this is Florence doing something genuinely hard to categorize.

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Historic photographs of the original café guided the renovation, so the room feels like a Florentine institution that quietly relocated across the street and pretended nothing happened. Giacosa 1815 opens as a coffee-and-pastry spot, then pivots to aperitivo as the evening arrives. The Negroni is practically mandatory, given the history, but the cocktail list keeps going for those who feel like exploring past the obvious.

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