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Sostanza is popularly called "Il Troia" (The Trough) because people have been lining up at the long communal tables since 1869 to enjoy huge amounts of some of the best traditional food in the city. The primi are very simple: pasta in sauce, tortellini in brodo (meat-stuffed pasta in chicken broth), and zuppa alla paesana (peasant soup ribollita). The secondi don't steer far from Florentine traditions either, with trippa alla fiorentina or their mighty specialty petti di pollo al burro (thick chicken breasts fried in butter). It's an extremely unassuming place, so laid-back you may not realize you're meant to be ordering when the waiter wanders over to chat. They also frown on anybody trying to cheat his or her own taste buds out of a full Tuscan meal.
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Butter Chicken! Butter Chicken!
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Sostanza was the first restaurant we visited in Florence and it set the bar for local, intimate Tuscan dining. We renamed the restaurant Butter Chicken because the dish is SO memorable. ...
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- posted on 11.25.12
- by MauiFamilyVacation
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An Experience not to be missed
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Down a dark small alley like side street only a couple of blocks from the Arno River you will come upon the totally unassuming storefront of Trattoria Sostanza...and if you are smart...
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- posted on 11.21.12
- by Tony P
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If you think this is off the beaten path...
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You are dead wrong - this is a tourist restaurant, plain and simple. The butter chicken is very tasty dish I admit - but it is very simple. The sides, the pastas, the deserts, were...
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- posted on 11.20.12
- by InFlorence
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Contact:
- tel: 055-212-691
Address:
- Via Porcellana 25r
- Near the Borgo Ognissanti end
- Florence 50123
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Hours:
- Mon-Fri noon-2:15pm and 7:30-9:45pm
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