The Best Cocktail Bars in Florence

The staff wears Gucci, which tells you everything about the room before you've ordered a drink. This all-day cocktail bar sits inside the fashion house's Florence creative space on Piazza della Signoria, and the drinks, both spiked and not, lean visual and inventive. It holds a spot on Europe's 50 Best Bars. Come for a Martini in a room that takes its own aesthetic very, very seriously.

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A glass roof now covers what was once an open courtyard of a Renaissance-era convent, and the Four Seasons Firenze built its signature cocktail bar around that fact. Pale light, deep sofas, and verdant garden views make it feel less like a hotel bar and less like a museum than you might expect. In the evenings a pianist plays, the bar team reinterprets classics with some invention, and the crowd dresses accordingly.

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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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