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CLOSED: Caffellatte
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Vegetarian
Lacto
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Italian
Organic
Ristorante vegetariano. Small vegetarian restaurant cafe and latteria. Serves homestyle cooking. Brunch all day. Open hours sometimes changes, so call ahead. Reported closed, Jan 2018.
12 Reviews
First Review by Stevie
Nibs
Points +601
Limited selection, unfriendly - Edit
I went here with the family, after much discussion of wanting to try this place for several months. Unfortunately, the owner was unfriendly and yelled at us a couple times before we could even manage to get our food (once for sitting at the wrong table, and once for putting a shopping bag on the table while we got situated). The food and drink were generic and not anything special. Won't be returning here.
Read morePros: Good location
Cons: Unfriendly , small selection
Guest
natasha vegan
Points +190
disappointed - Edit
We were pleased to find this veggie café but were disappointed. There was no non dairy milk alternative. We had a vegan tomato quiche & 2 veg quiche. There was no side salad so we were not full up. There was no pastry just a topping. They tasted ok & were warm, but small. We did not stay for cake.We found better places, some in the next street. Had a big selection of teas.
Read morePros: good location, vegan option
Cons: small portions, no non dairy milk alternative
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GreenGarnet
Points +220
not recommendable - Edit
This place I found accidently and was fascinated by its nostalgic ambience. The owner is an old woman. I was surprised that she directly offered English and French as her foreign languages, but it became clear within the first minute that she is a bit crabby. But anyway, I read something about "vegan cake" outside the cafe and liked to eat something sweet, so I went in. She was warming up the cake in a small oven and afterwards the cake got a fruit purée topping. It looked wonderful, but I was confused, when she served not only a pastry folk but also a knife ...
Read moreThe knife was really too blunt to get through this kind of something, that you could not call "cake". The taste was not so good as well, it was really disappointing.
Because I am an honest person, but I would not like to be rude, I told the woman, that it was "nice" (not really true), but that it was difficult to eat because it was quite hard. Then she said something like "yes of course, there is no milk, no egg, nothing inside..." And this was the point, where I was asking myself, why she is serving vegan cake then, when she has no clue of baking it. I got even more angrier, when she told me, that this wooden piece of baked dough should cost 5 euros. I finished our talk with telling her, that it`s normally no problem to prepare fluffy vegan cakes!
Two cows is the lowest possible voting...
Pros: pretty nostalgic atmosphere
Cons: crubby owner, expensive, not able to bake cake
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Sarayna
Points +209
Closed for summer until 31 August - Edit
Just tried to go here today and found it is closed for the holidays until 31 August so watch out if you were planning to go to.
Read morePrevious review from last year:
I came here intending to have dinner in September, but they only had one or two things to eat other than the cakes so it's more like a cafe. Looked like a nice place for a coffee and cake though, but then I guess you don't need a vegetarian cafe for that - surprised to hear teh cakes aren't vegan from the reviews below.
Updated from previous review on Wednesday October 27, 2010
Pros: Nice atmosphere for tea+cake
Cons: Only a couple of meals available
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mojri
Points +27
Trapped - Edit
Should have read the reviews before we got to Caffellatte. Breakfast for two cosrted almost 50 euros. Food was ok, not good. The woman spoke English quite well ans was somewhat friendly. At least it was funny to read similar stories from here... :-)
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AlyssaMiller
Points +48
Not great - Edit
I am very easy going, so I am very quick to give people a second chance. The staff was very rude to me the first day, one woman wouldn't even talk to me because I didn't know enough Italian. The food was okay, but not great.
Read moreI assumed okay, everyone has a bad day and didn't hold it against them.
The second time I went here, again the staff was rude and the food was horrible.
There are only 2 vegan options. Vegan quiche or cake. The quiche was really spicy, I could barely eat it. The cake was just bad. I've made better at home.
Cons: rude staff, bad food/no options, expensive
Guest
Signal
Points +61
We felt conned - Edit
The owner was reasonably friendly and the atmosphere/decor was attractive, so we liked the place and did our best to enjoy ourselves despite the food being the worst we have eaten anywhere in Italy (the quiche that others have mentioned).
Read moreBut then added 1 euro for every item brought to the table (including drinks) and we felt completely ripped off. Even if the food were good, which it was not, the prices were astronomical. The worst value for anywhere I have ever eaten, and the owner was unembarrassable! She knew very well what she was doing and we clearly were not the irst people to be completely shocked.
It was our worst experience in Italy, so avoid it if you want to enjoy a holiday there!
It also gives a terrible impression of what it means to be vegetarian to non-vegetarians! The happy cow system says the lowest rating I can give for a vegetarian restaurant is 2 stars. This makes the points given here very very misleading. I would give this place zero as it gives vegetarians a bad name, and rips off vegans who can eat cheaper and better anywhere else in the city.
Pros: Decor
Cons: High prices, low food quality, hidden charges
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Jonathan Smith
Points +170
Sadly not very good - Edit
Miniscule portions of food served at hugely inflated prices. There are extra charges which don't appear on the menu. Lunch for two people - an exceedly small portion of vegan quiche with no garnish, a stale cake dessert and coffee came to €44! You will leave feeling fleeced and hungry.
Read morePros: None
Cons: Charges not transparent, Bad food, Small portions
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Serval
Points +89
Good, but it could be better - Edit
When I was a vegetarian I used to come here very often and, especially, I couldn't stop enjoying the "Bretone", a cake made with a special cow milk cream, I couldn't stop to court that cake... But since I completely stopped eating animal products I realized that here the vegan options weren't numerous. Of course there is always something vegan to eat, but not much, maybe also because the owner/female cook never uses soy milk or rice milk. Here you can usually find only one vegan option in the cakes menu ( usually made of fruits and pine nuts with jam, very good), only one vegan option in the quiches menu ( very good), and two vegan options in the soups menu. The portions could be bigger ( since the prices are not that cheap!) and, even if all the dishes are home-made, they are not always organic. The atmosphere is very nice ( and it's also in the historical centre of Florence), but, if you need to go the toilet and whas your hand, pay attention to the soap, I guess it's not vegan and it's not cruelty free at all.
Read moreMy opinion about "Caffélatte" is good, but, if the owner wanted, could be even better. Because if you're a vegan and you're looking for a large ( and exquisite) variety of meals, go to "Tropponais", always here in Florence.
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aFormerClarity
Points +124
not vegan! - Edit
They don't even have vegan milk-alternatives. Expensive as well with a coffe served at the table (cafe al tavola) going for 2€.
Read morePros: nice environment
Cons: expensive, no vegan alternatives
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gr8vegan
Points +2357
do not go here even if starving - Edit
I really don't want to do this, the owners seem well intentioned and everything, but I really felt like barfing the second we got our food. There was a fly that jumped from my quiche to my gf's soup and drown. The bites we took around him were so bland and disgusting that we just paid and left. I'm seriously not going to be able to think about food for many days. You're better off just going into any place and trying to order egg free paste in red sauce. There are too many fabulous vegan friendly restaurants in Florence to ever go here. If you are really quirky and want a completely wacko experience then go here for the novelty of it all. We might as well have lit 15 Euro's on fire. Gross / digusting / possibly unclean / etc. do not go here.
Read moreCons: gross
gr8vegan
Apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
Read moreGuest
Stevie
Points +11765
Caffelatte, Florence - Edit
The lady who runs this place is very friendly and works very hard (open long hours) to try to keep the business afloat. I'd like to say more good things about this place as the lady is so nice; However in terms of what you get for your cash I can't recommend this place to anyone who is trying to manage on any kind of economy budget. I had a good sized portion of soup to start with but the quiche that was served up after didn't last very long at all. For a place that is vegan veggie friendly it is surprising that she doesn't offer soya milk to go with tea or coffee. The building started off as a butcher's in the 19th century. Then it became a milk shop in 1920. It's now a vegetarian cafe with the owner still running the milk selling business.
Read morePros: Nice staff, Open long hours, Vegan veggie friendly
Cons: Not the cheapest, Not the biggest portions
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