I cannot recommend this place highly enough. Forget all the other gelaterias that try to lure you in: Vivoli is a traditional, longstanding family-run business. All gelati are made fresh, with all natural ingredients. I have never tasted anything like those ice-creams since. My husband and I both went in, two days in a row, and tried four different flavours each. That's how good it is. We were sad we didn't get to cover them all. Seriously, do not miss this place.
7 Via Isole delle Stinche, just south of the crossroad with Via Ghibellina;
tel: (+39) 55 292 334;
www.vivoli.it
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See what happens if you attempt to photograph even the door to the 'Laboratorio', let alone the room itself... Look, Bar Vivoli is good - I don't doubt that, but in Florence Grom (Via del Campanile, on the corner of Via delle Oche, tel: 055 216 158; www.grom.it) is better and I'd say that Il Gelato di San Crispino in Rome is better than both of them. But hey, try it anyway. Vivoli is behind the Bargello on the way to Santa Croce - it's on all the tourist maps.
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