I live in Florence and work in the center but I confess that for at least 20 years I had not been to Vivoli, il best known ice cream maker in Florence and visited every day by dozens and dozens of tourists, who come out with huge bowls of ice cream and take a souvenir photo.
Let's say that this very tourist aspect had kept me away, but the other night I went there and I really ate a dream ice cream. Vivoli it is located in via dell'Isola delle Stinche, behind the Verdi Theater and near Piazza Santa Croce. These are the curious "crooked" streets born on the perimeter of the Roman amphitheater.
It is an ice cream maker who has existed since the XNUMXs, first a dairy, then an artisan ice cream shop. Its fame is huge, but the ice cream hasn't inflated, it tastes like natural ingredients. There are many flavors, both traditional and with openings to original proposals, and the peculiarity is that you cannot eat a cone because Vivoli only fills cups.
There are the oversized ones that many American tourists like, but for a normal ice cream they are expensive between 2 and 3 euros, quite normal for the center of Florence.
The quality, as mentioned, is superior.
