Vestri, Cioccolato d'Autore

[randomness]

Vestri is a chocolate shop which serves gelato, mostly in various flavors that include chocolate, like chocolate-orange or chocolate-ginger. Chocolates and gelato. What a combination!

Vestri, Cioccolato d'Autore
Borgo degli Albizi, 11r
Florence, Italy
Tel: +39.055.2340374
http://www.cioccolateriavestri.com (more Flash)

(main location at
Via Romana, 161
Arezzo, Italy
Tel: +39.0575.907315)

As is standard in Florence gelaterias, you can get your gelato in a cup or a cone, and there are three sizes, starting at €1.50 for a piccolo (small). Also standard is that a small can include two flavors. I got the chocolate-orange, which tasted just like the candy, and giandula (chocolate-hazelnut, recommended by KJ's Italian instructor). KJ got the chocolate-ginger, which she likes. I think if I liked ginger more I'd like it but it's got quite a gingery taste. Great if you love ginger.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Gak, I messed up and commented to my own posting. However, please see that posting if you're looking for more info.

Also, I forgot to mention Brek, an Italian chain of cafeterias. Italians will probably wince that I'm suggesting this, but they're a) pretty decent for an inexpensive, quick meal, b) all over Italy, c) noticably better than their competition. I wouldn't go out of my way to find one but if you do run across one--there's one in Rome Termini station, for example--it's a reliable choice.

mudpuppy and I agreed that if they opened up in the States they'd clean up.