Our menu

Calabrian food and gourmet pizza

The taste of Calabrian cooking in Florence: home recipes, selected ingredients and bold flavours.

At lunchtime we have a dedicated menu, designed for quick business lunches.

To begin

Starters

From our land…

  • Fried caciocavallo on caramelised onion 15 €

    Breaded fried caciocavallo cheese with caramelised Tropea red onion.

  • Tagliere Commisso (recommended for 2) 22,5 €

    Capocollo, sausage, soppressata, pancetta and three semi-aged pecorino cheeses, served with our jams.

  • Tagliere Barone (recommended for 2) 22,5 €

    Calabrian meatballs, scapece aubergines, wild chicory, sun-dried tomatoes, mixed preserves and Sila wild mushrooms.

…from our sea

  • Swordfish rolls with bergamot 18 €

    Swordfish filled with raisins and pine nuts, in a bergamot crust.

  • Fried anchovies 12 €

    Anchovies dusted in flour and fried.

  • Red peppered mussels 14 €

    Mussels with white wine, tomato, chilli, garlic, black pepper and extra virgin olive oil.

  • 🌶️ Trio of Calabrian croquettes 15 €

    Salt cod croquette with ’nduja sauce, tuna croquette with caramelised onion and icefish croquette.

Meat and fish

First courses

From our land…

  • Fileja imperiale 15 €

    Tomato, aubergine, smoked ricotta, crispy sausage and basil.

  • 🌶️ Garganelli with porcini, ’nduja and scamorza 14,5 €

    Garganelli with porcini mushrooms, ’nduja, smoked scamorza*, parsley and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Linguine with pesto, burrata and sun-dried tomatoes 13,5 €

    Linguine with basil pesto on burrata, sun-dried tomatoes and pine nuts.

  • Calabrian stroncatura with anchovies 14 €

    Stroncatura pasta with anchovies, breadcrumbs, olives, chilli and parsley.

…from our sea

  • Paccheri with salt cod 15,5 €

    Salt cod with white wine, Taggiasca olives, wild fennel, red datterino tomatoes, basil, parsley and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Seafood risotto 17 €

    Risotto with mussels, clams, prawns, squid, octopus, red datterino tomatoes, parsley, garlic and extra virgin olive oil.

  • 🌶️ Linguine with mussels and clams 15 €

    Linguine with mussels, clams, parsley, garlic, chilli and extra virgin olive oil.

Meat and fish

Main courses

From our land…

  • 🌶️ Sausage, turnip greens and Sila potatoes 17,5 €

    Calabrian sausage, turnip greens, potatoes, garlic, chilli and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Aubergine parmigiana 14 €

    Aubergine, parmesan, tomato, basil, black pepper, garlic and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Our sliced scottona beef steak 23 €

    Add: porcini +2 € · rocket and grana +1.5 € · ’nduja cream +2 €

…from our sea

  • Grilled octopus 20 €

    Octopus, courgette flowers, fresh provola, potatoes, oven-baked black olives, parsley and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Calabrian fried salt cod 17 €

    Salt cod* with oven-baked black olives and peppers.

  • Seafood platter 24 €

    Sea bream, tuna, octopus, grilled vegetables, Tropea onion, parsley and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Fried squid 17 €

    Tender squid dusted in flour and fried.

On the side

Sides

  • Patate mpacchiuse 6,5 €

    Sila-style potatoes with Tropea red onion.

  • Potato salad 6,5 €

    With cherry tomatoes, Tropea onion, Taggiasca olives, basil and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Green salad 5 €
  • Mixed salad 5 €
  • French fries* 5 €
  • Seasonal vegetables 5 €

From the wood-fired oven

Pizzas

Mangia Assai pizzas

  • 🌶️ Mangia Assai 13 €

    Fiordilatte, spicy Calabrian sausage, Tropea red onion, premium reserve pork ’nduja cream, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Nicastrese 14,5 €

    Basil pesto, fiordilatte, prosciutto crudo, stracciatella, red datterino tomatoes, crushed pistachios, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Altilia 13 €

    Tomato sauce, Calabrian spianata salami, mild provola, sun-dried tomatoes, ricotta and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Decollatura 12 €

    Fiordilatte, smoked provola, spicy pancetta, potatoes.

  • Acritana 13 €

    Fiordilatte, smoked scamorza, turnip greens, sausage and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Tropeana 12 €

    Sardanelli tuna fillet, Tropea red onion, fiordilatte, fresh basil, wild Calabrian oregano and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Scilla 14 €

    Yellow datterino tomato purée, yellow and red cherry tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella DOP, Leccino olives. After baking: Cetara anchovies, wild oregano, basil and extra virgin olive oil.

  • 🌶️ Curinghese 13 €

    Fiordilatte, friggitelli peppers, premium reserve pork ’nduja, stracciatella, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil.

Special pizzas

  • 🌶️ ’Ndujella 12 €

    Tomato sauce, premium reserve pork ’nduja, rocket, stracciatella, sun-dried tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Romana 13 €

    Courgette flowers, fiordilatte, stracciatella and anchovies.

  • Tronchetto 12 €

    Rolled pizza with fiordilatte and mild provola, topped with rocket, red cherry tomatoes, prosciutto crudo, grana shavings and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Assai Napoli 12,5 €

    Tomato sauce topped with Campania buffalo mozzarella DOP, anchovies, Taggiasca olives, fresh basil, wild Calabrian oregano and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Fiorita 12 €

    Basil pesto, fiordilatte, courgette flowers, sun-dried tomatoes, ricotta and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Vegecalabra 11 €

    Tomato sauce, fiordilatte, fried aubergine, potatoes and roasted peppers.

  • Parmigiana 12 €

    Tomato sauce, fiordilatte, fried aubergine, parmesan and fresh basil.

Classic pizzas

  • 4 cheeses 12 €

    Fiordilatte, gorgonzola, mild provola, parmesan, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil.

  • 🌶️ Diavola 11 €

    Tomato sauce, fiordilatte, Calabrian spianata salami, fresh basil and Taggiasca olives.

  • Margherita DOP 9,5 €

    Tomato sauce, Campania buffalo mozzarella DOP, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Capriccio calabro 13 €

    Fiordilatte, cooked ham, porcini mushrooms, Taggiasca olives, wild artichokes and extra virgin olive oil.

  • Classic calzone 10 €

    Fiordilatte, cooked ham.

  • Calzone Mangia Assai 13 €

    Fiordilatte, spicy Calabrian sausage, premium reserve pork ’nduja, Tropea red onion, grana shavings and extra virgin olive oil.

Add to any pizza: wholemeal dough +2 € · premium reserve ’nduja +2 € · black pork sausage +2 €

For those who want to taste a bit of everything

Our tasting menus

Calabrian tasting

of tradition

Tagliere Commisso
capocollo, sausage, soppressata, pancetta and three semi-aged pecorino cheeses with our jams

Trio of pasta dishes
Fileja imperiale · Garganelli with porcini and ’nduja · Calabrian stroncatura

Dessert of the house
depending on availability, handmade by us in the Calabrian tradition

35 € per person

Drinks and cover charge excluded · minimum 2 people

Pizza tasting

a land between two seas

Swordfish rolls with bergamot
filled with raisins and pine nuts, in a bergamot crust

Pizza poker
half ’Ndujella and half Mangia Assai · half Tropeana and half Scilla

Dessert of the house
depending on availability, handmade by us in the Calabrian tradition

35 € per person

Drinks and cover charge excluded · minimum 2 people

Made in house

Homemade desserts

Desserts

  • Dessert of the house 7 €
  • Tiramisù 7 €
  • Cheesecake 7 €

    Pistachio, berries, chocolate, strawberry, caramel.

  • Lemon sorbet 5 €
  • Seasonal fruit 6 €

Ice cream

  • Tartufo di Pizzo, pistachio* 7 €
  • Tartufo di Pizzo, fig and walnut* 7 €
  • Tartufo di Pizzo, bergamot with pomegranate heart* 7 €
  • Tartufo di Pizzo, classic* 6 €

    Gluten free.

Soft drinks

  • Acqua Panna 3 €

    Still, 75 cl (glass).

  • Acqua S.Pellegrino 3 €

    Sparkling, 75 cl (glass).

  • Coca Cola 7 €

    1 l (glass).

  • Coca Cola, Coca Cola Zero 3 €

    33 cl (glass).

  • Fanta 3 €

    33 cl (glass).

  • Brasilena 2,5 €
  • Lemon soda 2,5 €
  • Estathè 2,5 €

    Lemon or peach, 25 cl (glass).

  • Bergotto 3 €

Coffee

  • Espresso, decaf, barley coffee and ginseng coffee 2 €
  • Cappuccino 3 €

Draught beers

  • Krombacher blonde 4,5 € / 6 €

    30 cl / 50 cl

  • Krombacher Rhenania red 5,5 € / 7 €

    30 cl / 50 cl

Mangia Assai beers

  • Mangia Assai Blonde 5 €
  • Mangia Assai Blonde gluten free 5 €
  • Mangia Assai Blanche 5 €
  • Mangia Assai Red 6 €
  • Mangia Assai British 6 €

By the glass

  • Cirò Tenuta San Francesco 5 €

    Red, white or rosé.

  • Albamonte Tenuta Spadafora 1915 5 €

    Red or white.

Sparkling

  • Prosecco Don Fortunato 18 €
  • Bluette 18 €

Whites

  • Cirò Tenuta San Francesco 14 €
  • Madregoccia Tenuta Iuzzolini 20 €
  • Magaria Tenuta Spadafora 1915 26 €
  • Pandosia Tenuta Spadafora 1915 29 €
  • Donna Giovanna Tenuta Iuzzolini 32 €

Reds

  • Cirò Tenuta San Francesco 14 €
  • Albamonte Tenuta Spadafora 1915 17 €
  • Artino Tenuta Iuzzolini 20 €
  • Pepe Rosso Tenuta Spadafora 1915 22 €
  • Sole Nero Tenuta Spadafora 1915 22 €
  • Muranera Tenuta Iuzzolini 32 €

Rosés

  • Cirò Tenuta San Francesco 14 €
  • Lumare Tenuta Iuzzolini 18 €
  • Donna Rosa Tenuta San Francesco 24 €
  • Rosa Spina Tenuta Spadafora 1915 26 €

Liqueurs and amari

  • Bergamot cream liqueur 4 €
  • Liquorice cream liqueur 4 €
  • Guglielmo coffee liqueur 4 €
  • Limoncello Bergaspina 4 €
  • Meloncello 4 €
  • Amaro del Capo 4 €
  • Amaro del Capo, spicy 4 €
  • Amaro Capobranco 4 €
  • Amaro Cardus 4 €
  • Amaro De Luca 4 €
  • Kephas digestive amaro 5 €
  • Amaro Jefferson 5 €
  • Amaro Kaciuto 5 €

Spirits

  • Chilli grappa 5 €
  • Bergamot grappa 5 €
  • White grappa 5 €
  • Barrel-aged grappa 6 €

Cover charge 3 € per person. 🌶️ = spicy dish. * Some products may be frozen depending on availability.

Allergen table

Starters · Tagliere Commisso 7 · Tagliere Barone 1-3-7 · Fried caciocavallo 1-3-7 · Trio of croquettes 1-3-4-7 · Swordfish rolls 1-4-8 · Red peppered mussels 12-14 · Fried anchovies 1-3-4-7

First courses · Fileja imperiale 1-7 · Garganelli with porcini 1-7 · Linguine pesto, burrata and tomatoes 1-7-8 · Calabrian stroncatura 1-4 · Paccheri with salt cod 1-4-12 · Seafood risotto 1-2-4-7-9-14 · Mussels and clams 1-2-4-12-14

Main courses · Sausage, turnip greens and potatoes – · Aubergine parmigiana 7 · Scottona steak – · Grilled octopus 14 · Fried salt cod 1-4 · Seafood platter 2-4-14 · Fried squid 1-3-4-7-14

Pizzas · all 1-7, except: Romana 1-4-7 · Assai Napoli 1-4-7 · Fiorita 1-7-8 · Acritana 1-6-7 · Tropeana 1-4-7 · Scilla 1-4-7

Desserts · Pistachio tartufo 7-8 · Fig and walnut tartufo 7-8 · Bergamot and pomegranate tartufo 7 · Classic tartufo 7

Key · 1 cereals containing gluten · 2 crustaceans · 3 eggs · 4 fish · 5 peanuts · 6 soy · 7 milk and lactose · 8 nuts · 9 celery · 10 mustard · 11 sesame seeds · 12 sulphur dioxide and sulphites · 13 lupin · 14 molluscs

Planning an event at Mangia Assai?

Graduation, birthday, anniversary or any other celebration: we will plan the right menu together and, if you need it, reserve a whole room for you.