Florence restarunats where locals eat

Look in the Altrarno area - there will be tourists there, of course, but there will also be locals and they won't be restaurants created for tourists.

Any of the list below will be good. I know several in the list.
This website is in Italian only, so, unlike TripAdvisor, locals ranked them.

https://www.ilmangione.it/ristoranti/firenze/

If you want to filter by lower price use the price bar under Prezzo.

Try Leonardo's which is a small cafeteria upstairs a block from the Duomo. Pretty great lasagna there.

Well, McDonalds and the Hard Rock cafe are popular with the locals, but I am sure that is not what you mean. I suppose you can wander well outside city center then about any corner restaurant will be populated by locals. Speaks nothing to Quality, in my experience any local wants moderate quality, cheap, not necessarily iconic local dishes.

A substitute would be to look for well recommended places with the types of dishes you like, rather than assessing the constituency of the diners.

Great responses! Thanks to all

I enjoyed the Acquacotta Trattoria Restaurant on Via dei Pilastri, 51/R, 50121 Firenze FI, Italy. It was next door to the Airbnb I stayed at. I went twice in one week and both times the food was very good. The wait staff were very nice. You might want to make a reservation, however when I went they were able to seat me (solo traveler).

For various reasons, when we were staying in Florence for 5 weeks we either shopped at the Sant'Ambrogio market in our neighborhood and cooked our own food or we ate at more quick and casual places. I'm afraid I've forgotten most of the names, Some were in San Niccolo and maybe one was Hosteria del Bricco. Others I do remember well, such as the sandwich shop Ino near the Galileo museum. Despite the name, we ate at the Pizza Man on via dell'Agnolo several times and enjoyed that. In the Oltrarno, where I was taking classes, I ate lunch many times at a bakery called S. Forno and wrote my one and only Trip Advisor review about it. I remember liking the pizza and the experience at Fermento 1889 in that neighborhood, too.

This was August to October two years ago, so Florence was still heavily touristed and I don't recall there being any other English-speaking tourists in any of these places. I am sure that there are all sorts of great non-touristy places to eat outside of the historic center.

I agree with Leonardos--great for lunch. ZaZa may be touristy but the food is good especially the Ribolitta, We have eaten there on each trip to Florence.

Do tourists not appreciate good food? I've eaten some fantastic meals in restaurants that were frequented by tourists. A locals only place is not indicative of quality, often the opposite.

None of the restaurants I ate at in Florence were memorable, certainly not worth recommending. It's been my most disappointing city in Italy foodwise.

European locals eat at restaurants that are GOOD, just like we do in the US. Doesn't matter if many tourists eat there or not. GOOD is GOOD. Check out Yelp, TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, etc. I find that if a restaurant ranks high in many of these sites, it is probably good. Go there, check out the menu, look at plates on tables and make a decision. Don't avoid a tourist restaurant and miss a great meal in exchange for a local place where the food is average.

Oltrarno neighbhorhood:
1. IL Guscio at via dell'orto 49. We had a memorable dinner there - modern Italian cuisine - it had been recommended by our
VRBO apartment host.
2. Alla Vecchia Bettola on the Piazza Torquato Tasso. Excellent neighborhood restaurant.

Thanks to everyone that replied great suggestions