How many times have we heard the phrase "be careful what you wish for? Over and over, right? The other day a reader of this blog's weekly "Coffee Beans & Beings" column asked for a couple of coffee house ideas for their upcoming trip to Florence.
On short notice, I thought of asking my friend in Italy, who visits Florence often however, she was on vacation when I called asking her to name her favorite coffee houses.
Plan B. Because she was unavailable I channeled the novelist Dan Brown's (Inferno, DaVinci Code et al). Brown's main character in Inferno longed to sip an espresso at Caffe Rivoire. Voila a reliable source. He didn't let me down. But the book was written in 2012 or so. Perhaps, Caffe Rivoire was gone or horrors fictional?. Stranger things happen in the coffee hospitality industry.
So, I checked another of my reliable sources: TripAdvisor.com:
And, yes. Caffè Rivoire is still flourishing in 2026 at Piazza della Signoria 5/R, Florence, directly facing the Palazzo Vecchio.
Its official website currently lists the Florence café, telephone number and daily operating hours. The posted hours are: Monday–Friday: 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday–Sunday: 7:30 a.m.–7 p.m.
And it remains not merely a coffeehouse, but a café, restaurant, cocktail bar and historic chocolatier—still selling the thick hot chocolate for which it became famous.
And, to my surprise Tripadvisor.com's blog listed 40 other caffe's in Florence. Such riches. No doubt they're all worthy establishments for a fellow traveler in search of the perfect Italian espresso. The site's claimed one billion reviewers all can't be wrong.
MORE CAFFE RIVOIRE IMAGES FROM TRIPADVISOR:
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