Eating Lampredotto: Cow Stomach Sandwich in Florence

Senti. Listen.

I love food, but I am not one of those people who will eat anything.

I don’t take some perverse pleasure in enjoying the weirdest edible I come across.

But I am someone who will TRY to eat anything. I ate bugs in Mexico City. (Some were ok. Some made me want to lose it on the floor on the market).

You know, the usual.

So I knew I might not enjoy lampredotto, but I was determined to TRY.

Heading to Florence as a day trip from Rome on a Sunday of all days – I was looking for a great place to eat lampredotto that would still be open at a time of week when many shops close.

Da’ Vinattieri came highly recommended and is only a few minutes walk from the Duomo.

Sold.

Spying all the customers tucked into the archway where Da Vinattieri is located assured me that we had made the right choice.

I readied my money (€4) but started to waiver as I watched the preparation and thought about what I was getting myself into.

Lampredotto is cow’s stomach.

And when you watch the preparation – as the slow simmered meat is removed from the pot and sliced, before being salted and topped with red pepper – well, it looks like cow stomach.

Maybe I shouldn’t have told you.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been told myself.

Because it tastes good.

It tastes slowly cooked, with plenty of seasoning, on warm and saucy bread.

But the texture?

Well.

Da’ Vinattieri (Via Santa Margherita, 4/R) has a much broader menu if you don’t feel like testing your culinary luck.

But who I am to argue with Saveur?

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