Since 1954, the Baglioni family is running this Florentine trattoria right in the historic center of Florence. The old charcoal grill and high quality meat make the recipes authentic delicacies. We select for you heifer Fiorentina (T-bone) steaks at the ideal maturation period to ensure both juiciness and tenderness. We serve traditional dishes of the Tuscan/Florentine cuisine prepared in accordance with the authentic recipes passed down from generation to generation. Here you can find traditional homemade pasta main courses, sauces requiring long cooking, stews and roasts. Updated dishes in an innovative and modern key are also there for you to taste.
The traditional wood-burning oven
Braciere Malatesta is known for its Florentine steak, which has always been the flagship of the kitchen here. To guarantee the Italian flavors, the restaurant also offers a pizza cooked in a real wood oven, which also respects the most authentic tradition. Our long leavening dough and the mixture of natural flours (flour 0 and whole wheat flour), combined with our cooking method based solely on the use of Casentino wood with its unmistakable scent, make our pizzas testy, crunchy, nutritious and very digestible. Finally let be tempted by our homemade desserts prepared every day in our oven according to the chef’s fantasy. Florentine steak and pizza are the flagship of Braciere Malatesta, but there’s more…
