Officina della Bistecca

Difficult advice. Place is fantastic in terms of organisation. All people get the same diner same wine same thing in your plate at the same time. We were about 200 last night. It s something impressive. Good point is you can be vegan and get diner with your friends. For 50 euros you have everything included that is crazy to. Brag is expensive good beaf very expensive. Cooking and deserving that kind of quality is also a challenge. Yes go there if you want to have an introduction to Italian steak. Go to a restaurant if you want to choose your menu and wine. That said it good quality almost cooked for all.

This was a place that I would recommend to anybody that wants to experience Italy in a different way. It’s not a fancy restaurant, it’s actually very modest and friendly. Everybody is welcomed here. I loved the way they served all the people from the same plate. This is where you learn to appreciate every single bit of the cow. Don’t expect to eat the best steak of your life, but all the dishes were amazing in their simplicity. The lemon touch in the tartar was amazing. :)

Restaurant belonging to a famous chef located in a charming town. Unfortunately the atmosphere isn’t what I expected - the restaurant is a huge building full of tourists that feels quite commercial. I completely understand that this is unavoidable but if you are looking for a cosy local experience where Dario personally greets everyone, you will be disappointed. The food is of variable quality. I enjoyed the two knee stews but found the meat quality in bistecca and roast beef to be quite low - the meat was extremely chewy. The service was efficient but not warm. My rating: 3.2

For a meatlover this is paradise and i wont forget my visit there. It is a must for everyone who loves great, tasty and well prepared beef. It was extremly good - not only the food but the smell of the grill too. Dont miss it - Its an overall great and memorable experience.

Brutally beef eating. The meat is tender and nice and uts a lot of it.and wine so much you can drink. Positiv and raw atmosphare. Fire and loudly and happy people gather for a big eating party. One time in a life experience.

Definitely an extraordinary experience. If you love meet in general and beef in particular, this is the place for you. The degustation menu includes fabulous amount of meet, a good wine and a great service. The olive oil cake is very good too. It is an experience that worth the effort! I would go there every day or week? No! Would I return when I am back in Toscana? Definitely yes...

Great simple hotel, very hospitable, very helpful and very sincere. It has been a pleasure and we'll worth recommending as it's very well situated and the rooms serve their purpose really well. I just never could understand Italian pillows ?

First and foremost, this is not the tasting menu from the Netflix Chef's Table episode. That is Solociccia. We chose this steak tasting because we already enjoy eating unconventional parts of the cow. Wow. You are unlikely to have beef this good ever again. I say this with the caveat that if you're into the steakhouse-style cast iron seared steak you won't get that here. They don't salt the beef, they don't season it with garlic or herbs. They grill it over a fire and cook it to the done-ness that the specific cut is traditionally made for, and what you truly taste is the beef. They have a nice seasoned salt for you to add to taste. Their chianti butter is seasoned pork lard, and it's great on their bread. Also, their beans and potatoes are just so fresh and tasty, I would have finished them all if I were not about to explode with beef or turn into a cow myself. The local vegetable crudo they serve is also farm fresh and tasty. - tartare: this is raw, so be prepared for this. Best beef tartare I'd ever had. - roast beef: a contender for favorite cut. In the US we're so used to eating roast beef that's a buffet station. I think this beef is just tiers above what you'd get at even the best Las Vegas buffets. - Rib eye: my recommendation? ask for the bone and eat that amazing meat off of it. Best rib eye I'd ever had. - beef belly: also a contender for a favorite. Definitely not as fatty as pork belly, and it might actually be Brisket depending on how close to the front legs this cut is. Super tender and juicy - Florentine steak: if you're going to order this dish during a trip to Italy, have it here. Dario's commitment to the best grass fed local cattle really comes through in this dish. It is served rare in the middle, but with beef this fresh from a butcher this reputable, this is the time in your life to eat rare meat. This was my favorite cut in the end. Make sure to pay attention to what part of the T-bone you are eating, there is the strip part and the filet part - appreciate the differences. - Panzanese steak: a unique cut that is their signature steak. It was very well-balanced, it is cooked to a higher temperature than the Florentine and more on par with the rib eye, but it is SO flavorful. - olive oil cake: the olive oil they use is just so good it was so hard not to finish this. You seriously need to expand your stomach the day before (eat a big lunch, eat high volume low-calorie stuff for dinner with lots of vegetables), and go to this meal starving. We can eat about our weight classes but could not finish everything. So we did a major faux pas and asked for to go boxes. We did this because it felt truly disrespectful to not finish the beef that was served to us, and after watching Dario speak on Chef's Table about his commitment to not wasting any part of a cow out of respect to the animal, we decided we'd take the hit to our social credibility and take our leftovers to the hotel. Just to top things off, we ate our leftovers COLD the following evening, and the leftover meat would still rank in the top 10 steaks I've had in my lifetime. This meat is THAT good. Other tips: - You can take a bus from the Florence bus station to get to Panzano for around 3.5 euros per person each way. There are tourist traps on tripadvisor that will take you here for WAYYYY too high of a price. - if you're taking the bus, look at the google bus schedules ahead of time. Busses don't run as often on the weekends, and if you come here for dinner you won't be able to get the last evening bus back to Florence even on a weekday. This is why we went for lunch. - we brought our own wine, then ended up not drinking it because they give you a massive jug of wine so it felt wasteful to open our own.