We stopped for lunch at the Tre Pini Restaurant on the south side of Florence. The fact is, despite the restaurant's name, one of its three pines was struck by lightning. So actually there are only two pines there now, not the three which the name suggests. There was good food, and good music provided by an excellent guitarist and a proficient female singer who offered everything from Italian favorites to the Portuguese "Cuando, Cuando." Tre Pini is noted for the blue aperitif it offers, which is imported into the U. S.Read more