Editor Pick
Moyo - Trendy in Tuscany
I was directed to Moyo by a waiter after I had dined across the street at la Colonnine. This is a trendy place; indeed in my experience the Via de’Benci is one of the few places with a nightlife scene in sedate Florence. The chairs have backs in the shape of the letter ‘M’. And at the window the ‘M’ is joined by an ‘O’, a ‘Y’, and another ‘O’. It has dim lighting with prisms in the shades. I got myself a glass of draught Nastro Azzurro (€6.00) and found myself a seat in the corner to watch the nightlife. This is where the beautiful people of Florence come. Mostly students, and principally Italian, but you can spot a few international types – much like myself, they were the scruffier ones!
They have an entire menu of cocktails for €7.00. You could probably guess as much by looking at the bar-top, which was liberally covered with containers of limes, lemons, cherries, straws, and Tabasco sauce. The music policy was nice and chilled – a sample tune would be Gotan Project’s ‘Tango Cancion’. Sadly at 10:30 a different DJ took over and swapped to generic chart R’n’B, whereupon I left.
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