Is Sant'Ambrogio Market & Quarter worth it on a budget?
Worth itOn a budget
On a budget, Sant'Ambrogio Market & Quarter still earns its price.
Free to wander
Smaller and far more local than Mercato Centrale, with a covered produce hall residents actually shop and an open-air square outside. The anchor is Trattoria da Rocco, the tiny 30-seat counter physically inside the market: a handwritten daily menu of whatever came in that morning — ribollita, peposo, a ragù that's been on the stove since 8am — served fast and cheap to a room of regulars, with the owner Rocco himself pouring wine and trading jokes table to table. There are no headline sights here; the point is to eat lunch where Florentines do and feel resident for a morning.