The Box

A tiny nice bar on Borgo Pinti. Problem is that it is sooo tiny (the name is well put: it is like a small cute box!) that it floods into the pavement: basically everybody (and everybody is a lot, it gets super crowded on the week ends) is drinking outside. So if weather is fine, it is nice of course but maybe neighbors do not appreciate as much as we do while having a drink in this narrow street… but if you forgot about poor people trying to sleep, the atmosphere is very nice!
I went twice, and the first time, I was inside and i have to say that the inside is very nice. So try to sneak in and find a seat. Behind the bar, there are of course a lot of bottles, as any bar, but more original there are also all the ingredients for cocktails, that makes it look like a market from far, it is cute.
And indeed, they seem to take cocktails very seriously here: they devote a lot of time to prepare them — and my friends seemed to agree that it was well done. I cannot testify to this as i had a glass of wine — which was ok.
Drinks are cheap, it is a good deal.

I don’t know the owner like other reviews are fussing about and he wasn’t there when I went for a fruit cocktail as suggested by a friend, so I cannot speak as all the others did.
It was a Saturday night and there was just a girl handling the bar alone, register and cocktails.
The line was long and since the place is a corridor, it always continues out on the street
Although the place’s small, there are a few tables where to sit and a second hall down the stairs that was closed at the time.
I asked for a fruit cocktail, couldn’t find a menu or blackboard list where to choose from and she asked which fruit: I said pineapple.
Then she proceeded with other customers saying: if people want shots I’ll go on with the line before making your cocktails because it takes me 5 min at least.
She wasn’t that lucky, people wanted cocktails as well.
So she made mine with white rum as I suggested.
When finally I got my drink, I paid a very fair price, that must be said, and went out trying not to spill it between the people sitting and the line crowding.
The result? The taste was nice, but nothing special and the pineapple was scattered everywhere in the glass together with big ice cubes, so I couldn’t drink it nor eat it.
I hope I’ll have a better experience next time.

English:
The box feels like a bar for locals, the last thing I want is a bar for touris, t although I am a tourist. We found the bar because it was at the Street of our hotel but we ended up there every night after looking around for a good bar and not really succeeding. The music selection is great, the bartender might be the owner because he treats everyone with a lot of attention. Definitely a bar you would like to have near your!
Spanish:
The box es un bar para locales, con una demografía que se extendía desde los 20 hasta los ya divertidos 50 interactuando de forma por demás interesante y uno que otro turista perdido como nosotros. Al llegar a Florencia lo encontramos porque estaba en la calle de nuestro hotel y después de salir a buscar un buen bar casi infructuosamente, topándonos con bares de turistas universitarios gringos, o pubs de precios elevados regresamos a The Box para terminar la noche. La música es buenísima y la atención excelente. El barman, al conocer nuestra procedencia, modificó su playlist y nos hizo sentir como en casa. Terminamos las 3 noches ahí después de recorrer la ciudad y las 3 noches pudimos disfrutar del espacio hasta que nos lo cerraron. Definitivamente el bar que quieres tener cerca de casa.