Scudieri

Pastries! Sweets! Tiramisu! Coffee!
Just don’t sit down – that’s where all the bad reviews are coming from!
I mean, at any fancy-​looking café in Florence, just don’t sit down, or the prices will escalate.
You’re off doing an Italian breakfast with a caffe and a pastry standing-​up at the bar, because you’ll get set prices of what you see at the counter. And also, pastries – like a good ol’ warm brioche (croissant) filled with nutella or pistachio cream (haven’t seen much of these in other bakery café like this!) – the pastries are best in the morning, where they are freshly baked.

Convenient café located right next to the Duomo. The coffee, naturally, is quite good.

Yes, I know it’s a tourist trap and overpriced but I dont care. I love all the sweets and pastries here. I am especially addicted to the torrone, heavenly nougat bars filled with hazelnuts. The breakfast dishes were mediocre.
I just love sitting in the patio area with my espresso and torrone, watching the hordes of tourists wander aimlessly around Duomo. Fun times, minus the smokers. Very attentive service.

Excellent pastries and good sandwiches, right in front of Il Duomo. It’s packed at breakfast time, the service is so-​so but probably due to all the people rushing about the café ordering things. The coffee and tea servings are tiny, but my parents liked it (they are extremely particular with their coffee).
They have lovely displays of cantucci, desserts, bon-​bons, and pan forte (though if you want to buy some of this as gifts I recommend going over to Mercato Centrale)

Muy malo los platos aunque si bien son ricos la porción es mínima los mas chicos que comí en Italia y el servicio es pésimo de muy mala calidad cuatro mozos y estuvimos 1 hora para comer

We had a coffee, cappuccino and macchiato and 4 pastries and the bill was 34 euro!
I thought they made a mistake because the prices on the bill was not what was written on the pastries when we ordered from the window and they said this is the service fee. So they showed us the prices which was hidden on the corner eg price for a coffee non seated was 1.1 euro but if you sit on the table is 4 Euro. So almost like 400% service charge !!
I should mention that the quality of the drinks and the pastries were really below average too. Horrible horrible place, avoid it.

Stopped by for a coffee and a desert, and it was just alright. Overpriced for what it was. The view isn’t great because the Duomo is blocked and some of the servers are rarer rude. It’s not bad, but you’re better off elsewhere.

The food was decent, not exceptional. Pastries and Caffe were exceptionally good

An OK cafeteria in a 5 star location.
This place is located at Piazza del Duomo, just steps away from the Battistero di San Giovanni. It offers indoor and outdoor seating with an unobstructed view of the west gate and cathedral. This is by far it’s best attribute.
Scudieri is mostly known as a place to have a coffee and a sweet, maybe a snack, but it also offers a sit down menu. We stayed for lunch (who can beat such views?) but in general our experience wasn’t a good one.
Servers are overwhelmed by the ridiculous number of tourists that go in to shelter from the weather (being heat in the summer or cold in the winter) and order beverage/​sweet to enjoy while standing. This translates into herds of customers, lousy service and poor attitude servers.
The salad I ordered was VERY poor, no one that goes to Scudieri should ever order a salad! The pizza was good, your on the safe side by ordering one of these. In general, food quality is good, although nothing we ordered was beyond ok.
You must pay 50 cents € to go into the bathroom, this made it uncomfortable and seem cheap, although they were definitely clean.

Went here for a coffebreake with something sweet with it. I had what looked like a pistage cake tasted ok.
What drags down the grades is the lousy servers attitude i have met this arrogant attitude before. But it is really not pleasant a specially when you are forced to pay extra no matter where you sit (inside or outside).
There’s many subtile rules on what is OK or should i rather say what is expected from you as a turist. Like when you stand next to counter waiting for someone to take your order the staff send you to the tables for more waiting. It’s not easy being a tourist when the patiens is so low.
I will find another place to have my coffebreakes …

The biscotti cookies really caught my eyes in the window and even though I knew it was a tourist spot, I still bought a little treat to go. Four cookies the length of my pinkie finger cost 2 Euros. Bit pricey, but it was the perfect little snack. Got the orange flavor and the almond flavor. Would get them again — crunchy on the first bite and a bit chewy after that.

Sadly to say, I will not come back here anymore, although they serve great cappucino and chocolate flan (and these are what the stars for!). But the service was really really bad! We came in but noone was ushering us to a table, despite some waiting time. So, we took a seat. Then the waiter came and move us because that table was reserved, without any «reserved» card! When taking our order, he didn’t pay attention and was busy cleaning the other table. And true enough he brought us the wrong order! I have never had such bad service before in such a prominent eating place in a great city. What a pity…

At a touristic place we had a short snack. The service was bad. Taking our order while doing other things is a recipe for failure, so indeed a cappucino was delivered instead of the ordered tea. The tea was quite expensive 7 euro.
Furthermore cleaning the table with his own bare hands.
So recommended if you are a tourist and need to take a pee, otherwise as a tourist avoid, there are better places for service which we absolutely experience in florence.

This restaurant is extremely close to the Duomo, and I think that it costs a lot of money to reflect the tourist clientele. The food was OK, and there was no bread included with the meal, which I found to be unfortunate. (Chi può mangiare cibo Italiano senza pane per fare la scarpetta?)
The cool thing about eating here is that you can hear the campane ringing every 15 minutes.

Wir haben uns gegen den Verzehr im Stehen oder unterwegs entschieden und es uns im innern bequem gemacht. Die attraktiven Barista und der Oberkellner — allesamt in Schlips & Kragen — konnten sich stoßweise vor Gästen nicht retten, blieben aber jederzeit souverän und freundlich. Für die Gerichte in der Auslage (Panini, Tramezzini, etc.) bezahlt man bei Sofortverzehr einen Aufschlag von etwa 25%. Es macht Spaß, den Trubel an der Bar zu verfolgen. Das Prinzip «Zahl an der Kasse und hol dir mit dem Bön dein Kaffee und Frühstück» ist so simpel wie funktional. Der Kaffee war schmackhaft, das Essen auch, die Auslagen überaus ansprechend. Das Café selbst im klassischen Kaffeehausstil ist hübsch anzusehen und wirkt sehr sauber und gepflegt. Nur den frisch gepressten O-​Saft in der Füllmenge 0,2 Liter für sportliche 7 EUR fand ich dann doch auch für die Tourihochburg mehr als überteuert.

Gellato and drinks on the Piazza near the dome.
Good service and well needed shade from the beautiful sunshine day. Wi if is slow here but nice to get an update on Unilocal

Great view of the Duomo. Good shaded area with water spritzers. Reasonable priced food and drink in a great location.

If you love Tiramisu, you MUST try it here!
It costs € 1,80 for a slice which is cheap. There are other goodies available here that are yummy. I believe if you stand they don’t charge you an extra fee. Janice C. is right about their location. It’s pretty easy to find and in the perfect location.
They charge € 0,50 to use the restroom, but there is a person who cleans it after every use. I would highly recommend this place is you love sweets.

The pastries and drinks are all moderately priced and super delicious. It’s so conveniently placed on the corner of a block right next to the Firenze Duomo, so it’s always easy to find. I was so happy to find a real Italian bakery so close to my hotel. Everyone who worked there was really nice especially if you had no clue what pastry you were looking at! Definitely visit if you get the chance because anything you order will be great.

You can’t miss Café Scudieri, it’s smack dab in Piazza Duomo with big picture windows filled with enticing treats of candies, torrone, chocolates and all the good things that are so bad for your waistline. Oh my!
I got lured in by the display (of course!) and was wondering why there were so. many. PEOPLE!
The lines are, well, there are no clear lines. People are just basically standing everywhere, but you order at the counter (take away? or eat in?) then pay at the cashier before you pick up your order. There are limited seating inside, but it’s actually better to sit at a bench on the piazza while staring at the beautiful campanile or the surrounding neighborhood.
We were looking forward to a big dinner so we just wanted something to snack on. The crustless panino con pollo was simply made with mayo and tomatoes. I really liked the strawberry-​blueberry panna cotta, just the right amount of sweetness from the fruit and a semi-​firm but smooth texture.
Ahhh… the simple things!