April 16-25 free admissions in State Museums, Florence
April 14, 2010
Florence offers lots of opportunities to visit its gorgeus museums, and this april 2010, from 16th to 25th you can enter in all the State Museums for free! An entire week called Settimana della Cultura 2010 where most of museums in Italy will be open free of charge.
Yes, you wont’ have to pay the ticket, and in case you have already made your booking in advance, you will pay just the 4,00 euros for the reservation service.
A few minutes walk from your charming bed and breakfast in Florence downtown, you will enjoy free entrance at: Uffizi museum, Academy Gallery, Medici Chapels, Bargello Museum, Davanzati Ancient Florentine House Museum, Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens.
You can’t miss this special event, it’s just once a year so hurry, we have just 5 rooms and the Settimana della Cultura 2010 is coming soon! In addiction, april 16th falls on a Friday, so plan your week-end getaway now!
Website: Mr My Resort
4. Chocolates and hot chocolate in Florence: MR My Resort Inn tips
March 3, 2010
If you’re in the area of Santa Croce Cathedral, here you can’t miss Vestri. The area is located about 20 min. walk from MR My Resort Inn, and it has one of the most beautiful piazza of Florence downtown, Santa Croce square.
It’s a small shop, but this year they open a new spot in the same street where you can find panettone and pandoro cakes, together with chocolates and chocolate creams. I saw a great panettone covered with hazelnuts and dark chocolate and I decided this had to be the “special cake” for our family Christmas lunch 2009/2010 (together with mom’s cake, of course…
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The main shop offers ice creams, chocolates and the hot chocolate: classic dark, with peperoncino, milk chocolate. They do not have seats and give you a glass to take away, and the place is one of Florentines most favourite. Don’t miss the gelato in summer!!!
VESTRI Via Borgo degli Albizi 11R www.vestri.itYou can also like:
2010 New Year’s Eve in Florence: events, music, and more…
December 29, 2009
Are you ready for your 2010 New Year’s Eve in Florence?
Here we want to share with you some useful informations on how to spend this very special night December 31, 2009
Events:
1. Concert with Irene Grandi, Lucio Dalla, Negrita band in Piazza della Stazione in Firenze, at 10 PM (about). Free. The concert is free and you have the possibility to take the train Frecciarossa for free and get to Bologna in about 37 minutes, then come back by train. This is a special event Firenze-Bologna cities to celebrate the New Year’s Eve together with the inauguration of the Special Frecciarossa train, the fastest one. So you can assist to the concert in Florence or Bologna, while singers hop on/off from the train and play their music in the square of both cities.
In case you want to take the Frecciarossa train free of charge you mus book the tickes in advance at the desk in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence, where you can also find the detailed schedules.
2. Concert in Piazza del Duomo, Duomo square with the band Banda Improvvisa from 10.00 PM(about). Free. This is a great people’s orchestra, playing various kind of music, a real great human experience for music lovers.
3. Concert in Piazza della Signoria, Signoria square. At 11.00 PM. Free. Here is the classic music: the director Maestro Lanzetta with his world famous Chamber Orchestra will play the most exciting well-known musics from Rossini, Bizet, Strauss…
Parties:
1. Palazzo Gaddi, Via del Giglio (close to Vai Cerretani, not far from the train station). From 11.00 PM open bar with midnight sparkling wine, party, dance music with dj until early morning. More info +39 3474238636
2. YAB disco party. More info: +39 335 – 7882280
Pubs and Places to eat:
- The Club House Pub in Via de’ Ginori, on your way to go to the Duomo from the B&B, offers a buffet with sparkling wine and live music for 18,00 euros
- Restaurants: please check our tips about New Year’s Eve Dinner in Florence with our favourite restaurants specials for the 12/31.
We will be happy to give you more informations and news at your arrival. See you at MR My Resort B&B!
Christmas lights in Florence
December 18, 2009
Just a couple of pictures to send you the warm athosphere of our beautiful city Florence. Christmas is coming and it is sooo exciting! Weather is cold, but our rooms are romantic and warm… Come and stay at MR My Resort for your Christmas Holiday, our special offer is waiting for you!
3. Chocolates and hot Chocolate in Florence: MR My Resort’s advices
December 10, 2009
A comment by a kind follower remind me of an excellent place for chocolate in Florence I mentioned in a post about shopping in Florence a few time ago: Catinari chocolatier Arte del Cioccolato. This is a small place located between Via di Porta Rossa and the famous Via Tornabuoni street.
Together with high quality chocolates dark, white, spicy, etc. they have a great gelato chocolate and a superb hot chocolate.
Roberto Catinari is one of the 4 most important maitre chocolatier in the world, and you can’t miss this gorgeous experience in the heart of Florence historic center… Outside the shop there are seats and a selection of newspapers and books about fashion and food; a nice flower arrangements and candles create a surprisingly place of peace ideal for a sweet break before to back home at Mr My Resort B&B.
ARTE DEL CIOCCOLATO, CATINARI
Via di Porta Rossa
www.robertocatinari.it
(the main shop is outside the city center)
- Also see: Rivoire and Coccole Cioccolato
New Year’s Eve Dinner in Florence: Mr My Resort B&B advices part 4.
November 28, 2009
Osteria da Giovanniwill offer a fixed price menu of euros 95,00 per person, and here is they Special New Year’s Eve menu with florentine folk singers. The restaurant is located about 15-20 minutes walk from Mr My Resort, and it’s a typical Tuscan osteria, elegant but not formal.
Aperitivo: calice di Prosecco
Prosecco aperitif
Antipasto – Appetizer
Carpaccio di Branzino con vinaigrette al pepe rosa
Branzino fish with a vinaigrette in pink pepper
Millefoglie di verdure grigliate con provola piccante e prosciutto toscano
Millefoglie of grilled vegetables with provola cheese andTtuscan prosciutto
Primo – First courses
Crespelle all’astice
Crespelle pasta with mediterranean lobster
Risotto agli agrumi
Rice with citruses sauce
Secondo – Main courses
Grigliata mista di pesce con cruditè di verdure
Mixed grilled fish with vegetables crudité
Tagliata di Manzo cotta al carbone con radicchio rosso arrosto e fonduta di pecorino
Tagliata beef with red roasted salad and pecorino cheese foundue
Lenticchie al tegame
Lenticchie (small black beans) in the pot
Dessert
Dolci della casa a scelta
Your choice of home made cakes
Uva fresca
Raisin
Vini rossi e bianchi
Red and white wines
Vino Spumante Brut o Moscato d’Asti per festeggiare l’Anno Nuovo
Sparkling wine Brut or sweet Moscato D’Asti
Caffè e digestivi
Coffee and liqueur
OSTERIA DA GIOVANNI
Via del Moro,
Tel. +39 055 284879
You must see also other suggestions here
New Year’s Eve Dinner in Florence: B&B Mr My Resort Inn tips part 3.
November 23, 2009
See also our advices about Where to eat in Florence on New Year’s Eve part 1 and part 2!
Here is a good place to eat in the Santa Croce area, about 20 minutes walk from the bed and breakfast Mr My Resort, in Florence historic center.
The name is Osteria del Caffé Italiano, and the ambiance is an elegant Tuscan-old-style. This is also a good place to eat a gret bistecca or excellent salami and italian cheese.
New Year’s Eve Dinner Menu
Passatelli in brodo di cappone e pioppini
Capon and mushroom broth with traditional passatelli pasta
made with Parmigiano cheese
Inzimino di Moscardini e patate
Stewed baby octopus and potatoes
Tortelli ripieni di ceci con ragù d’anatra
Tortelli stuffed with chickpeas, duck ragout
Sformato di Zucca con salsa di cavolo nero e pecorino di Pienza
Pumpking flan with black cabbage and Pecorino cheese
Filetto di manzo al Brunello di Montalcino con le cime di rapa
Beef fillet with Brunello di Montalcino sauce and stewed turnip
Zampone e lenticchie del buon augurio
Traditional “zampone” pork leg and lentils
Piccola pasticceria
Dolce delizia dell’ultimo dell’anno
Our special New Year’s eve cake and “petit fours”
Euros 100,00 per person
OSTERIA DEL CAFFE’ ITALIANO Via Isola delle Stinche 11/13 R T. +39 055 289368 info@caffeitaliano.it
Autumn in Florence downtown, sunny days
November 18, 2009
Fall season is a good period to visit Florence, so why don’tyou take the chance to book a room at a very discounted low-season price?
The weather is still good, and it’s not cold at all. You can walk in the city and see it is not busy and crazy as in late Spring, when all world wants to come to explore our beautiful attractions like the Uffizi… Take your time, relax: autumn in Florence means slow life, no lines for museums, no hurry for a table at the restaurant, good time for shopping!
Come and stay with us!
Here is Piazza Indipendenza, two steps from Mr My Resort B&B in Florence downtown. I took the picture a few minutes ago.
New Year’s Eve Dinner in Florence: Mr My Resort Inn tips part 2.
November 15, 2009
If you prefere to spend most part of the New Year’s Eve ”on the road”, here are our first two places where you can find a standard menu, not expensive but still good. Both places are not far from MR My Resort bed&breakfast, located in Florence historic dwntown.
1. OSTERIA PEPO’: what to say about this place? We have already talk about it, and it is a good trattoria where to eat Tuscan food (try the bistecca, served on a hot place) and choose your courses directly from the menu. Romantic and casual.
2. OSTERIA I TOZZO DI PANE: a nice place, as we already wrote not too much time ago. Not expensive, good tuscan food. Wine by glass still available on the 12/31 menu. Casual and not caotic. Jazz music. Ask for a table far from the main entrace.
I will give you other advices asap, most part of restaurants are still organising their New Year’s Eve Dinner…
Also see: Ristorante alle Murate New Year’s Eve Dinner and New Year’s Eve dinner part 3!
New Year’s Eve Dinner in Florence: Mr My Resort Inn tips. part 1
November 14, 2009
Here we give you some advices about restaurants for your New Year’s Eve Dinner in Florence. Most of these restaurants are very close to Mr My Resort bed and breakfast, so it won’t be difficult to get a romantic evening walk in the historic center of Florence, in the exciting athmosphere of the New Year’s Eve.
Some restaurants will have a Special Dinner Menu, others will serve their Standard Menu, but will be open late night.
1. RISTORANTE ALLE MURATE: this is a very special place. Chic but not too formal, it’s one of the best restaurants of high-level in Florence city. The interiors are elegant, with ancient original frescoes and modern design. Excellent food and wine list, this is not a place for expensive tourists: florentines gourmet know Alle Murate as a restaurant where Tuscan tradition meets the South of Italy, and where prices are strictly connected with the true high quality of food. We can talk about that since as you know, we are used to eat here.
Here is the ALLE MURATE NEW YEAR’S EVE MENU, euros 160,00 per person.
Welcome aperitif
Pickled salmon and crunchy crackers with oregano
Lettuce soup, cod fish cream and crispy sweet pepper
Sicialian red prawns with burrata and chive
Hand made tortelli stuffed with sea-bass, sea-bass and cherry tomatoes sauce
Sword-fish and foie gras, broccoli cream
The lamb from Casentino country: baked leg, fried chop and braised shoulder.
Certaldo sweet red onions and traditional artichoke flan
Chocolate and raspberry mousse, cinnamon wafers and cream
Coffee and petits fours
160,00 euro per person
(a spumante wine bottle included for midnight toast)
Alle Murate,
Via del Proconsolo, 16 R
Reservations: silvia@allemurate.it or +39 055 240 618
See also Our best advices for restaurants in Florence New Year’s Eve Dinner part 2 and part 3!