I don't know whether you have booked your trip to Florence yet for this summer, but if you have bear in mind it will be packed. As mentioned on another post, you will difinately need to prebook visits to the Uffizi and Accadamia. Your channces of getting into the Basilica will be slim unless...
There are lots of good retauants in Florence. Would recommend: Trattoria Antico Fattore, Trattoria Giovanni, Osteria Cinghiale Bianco, Osteria Del Pavone, Buca Poldo, Trattoria de' Guicciardini da i Bigi e i Birghe.
You could spend two weeks in Florence and not see everything as the city is one...