Everything people ask us at the counter, written down.

Florence's flatbread: crisp on top, soft inside, finished with extra-virgin olive oil and coarse salt. The name comes from schiacciare, to press: the dough is pressed down with the fingertips before it goes into the oven.

In Florence it is the street sandwich par excellence. It's sliced in half and filled to order. Here we fill it the moment you order, at the counter, in front of you, with our own ingredients.

They're close relatives. Focaccia, especially the Ligurian kind, is taller and softer; Tuscan schiacciata is thinner, crisper and more generously dressed on top. In Tuscany the right word is schiacciata, and the filled sandwich takes the same name.

Because In Vino Veritas is a wine bar first. Every schiacciata carries the name of a grape (Vernaccia, Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, Primitivo) because it's designed to sit next to a glass of wine.

The menu has about forty schiacciate in four families: without truffle, with truffle, vegetarian and with beef. You can also build your own from the à la carte list of cured meats, cheeses, vegetables, sauces and truffle.

Between €8 and €15, depending on the ingredients: the vegetarian ones start at €8, most are between €9 and €11, those with truffle are €12 to €13, and the beef ones go up to €15. Prices and ingredients are on the menu, in Italian and English.

Slices of toasted bread topped with stracciatella, vegetables, truffle or cured meats, laid out in the window: you choose them by eye, straight from the counter. They have no names: the ingredients tell the story. Some are always there; others are born in the morning, with whatever comes in.

They're €3.50 each, or €12 for four. Four crostini and a glass of wine: that's our aperitivo.

Both. Inside there are seats at the counter and a few small tables: you order at the till and we bring it over. In a hurry? We wrap it in our own paper and you take it with you.

Between eighty and a hundred, from a cellar of more than a hundred labels: reds, whites, rosés and sparkling wines, mostly Tuscan and Italian. Prices by the glass are chalked on the tags at the counter.

And before we pour it, we let you taste it.

A system that draws wine through the cork with a fine needle, without uncorking, and replaces what it takes with argon gas, so the bottle stays intact for weeks.

It lets us pour serious bottles by the glass, a Brunello di Montalcino, a Bolgheri, a Barolo, without opening the whole bottle.

At the winery. Maccharley and Tamara visit the producers, get to know the families, taste, and choose label by label, and they follow them to tastings and previews too. That is why the list holds labels that are hard to find elsewhere.

In the winter months the whole team visits wineries too, so whoever recommends a wine has seen where it was made.

Yes. Besides the wines by the glass, every label on our shelves is for sale: pick your bottle, we wrap it, and you take it home. We don't sell online yet; bottles are bought in the shop.

Aperitivo here means a glass of wine with crostini, four for €12, at any time of day. The afternoon, between 3 and 6 pm, is the quietest time to find a seat at the counter; in the evening, after 8:30 pm, it calms down again.

At Via dei Cimatori 18r, 50122 Florence, the street of the historic wine counters, between Via dei Calzaiuoli and Via del Proconsolo. It's a two-minute walk from the Duomo, and Piazza della Signoria is just around the corner. Get directions.

Every day from 11 am to 10 pm, Sundays included, with no afternoon break. On public holidays, the hours published on Google are the ones to go by.

No. Walk in, order at the till, pick your crostini at the counter and sit wherever there's room. For a large group it's worth calling ahead on +39 055 389 6570.

On foot, in about fifteen minutes: from Piazza della Stazione take Via de' Panzani and then Via de' Cerretani to the Duomo; from there, head down Via dei Calzaiuoli towards Piazza della Signoria, and Via dei Cimatori is the second street on your left, just after Via del Corso. The centre is a restricted traffic zone, so leave the car outside.

Yes: four vegetarian schiacciate on the menu (Syrah, Verdolino, Primitivo, Bombino) and several vegetable crostini, with courgette, aubergine, sun-dried tomatoes and caramelised onion.

No: schiacciata is wheat bread and contains gluten, and in a small artisan kitchen we can't guarantee anything free of traces. If you have an intolerance, tell us at the counter and we'll be honest about what is suitable and what isn't.

Every schiacciata and every crostino lists the fourteen allergens covered by EU Regulation 1169/2011, each with its own icon: gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soy, milk, tree nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphites, lupin, molluscs. Just ask our staff if you have any doubt.

Maccharley Rodrigues de Oliveira and Tamara. It all began in 2010 with a Brunello in Montalcino, then a collection, a sommelier course, and an iron tree in the dining room holding a hundred and fifty bottles. On 12 June 2023 that tree became a wine bar on Via dei Cimatori, built with their own hands. Read our story.

“In wine, truth” is the Latin saying handed down by Pliny the Elder: over a glass, people say what they really think. It was the inscription on top of the bottle tree at home, long before the shop existed. The name was already there; all that was missing was the place.

At the counter we speak English, Italian, Spanish and French. The menu is in Italian and English.