Best Seafood Restaurants in Italy

Trattoria Portolano

$$ Riviera Cristoforo Colombo, 69/71, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
Il Portolano, a restaurant in Gallipoli where seafood specialities are the reason for the cuisine, focused on the exclusive use of high-quality products; the fresh fish is scrupulously selected from the fishermen's nets that arrive at the small port every day. The Trattoria Portolano restaurant was born from the desire to express that innate passion for the gastronomy culture of Gallipoli that has always accompanied us, a faithful relationship to the ancient recipes handed down in the kitchens of our homes. In a land of fishermen and farmers, of the sea and olive trees, in Salento, the recipes are masterpieces of taste and simplicity: from the encounter of poor ingredients, the wonderful exaltation of flavours is born. The Portolano restaurant is where diners are invited to spend moments of cheerful conviviality, such as a lunch with friends, a family celebration or a candlelit dinner.

Al Pescatore

$$$$ Riviera Cristoforo Colombo, 39, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
Just a stone's throw from the new area, you can discover the authenticity of the Al Pescatore restaurant with seafood specialities based on the best fresh fish. The hosts are Luciano Corciulo and his wife, Mina Stefanì, who know how to conquer the hearts of their guests with kindness, professionalism and attention to detail. “We work with quality and for quality,” they say. The entire menu was born from the inventiveness of Luciano, a whimsical and self-taught chef, a great connoisseur of the marine world, which he studies and respects. On the table, always and only the catch of the day declined in tasty variations, given that the chef faithfully follows the seasonality of the fish caught to protect the natural cyclical nature of the sea. Delicate dishes, exclusive flavours and refined combinations. These are just some of the qualities of chef Luciano Corciulo and his staff.

Yellow Scapece

$$$ Riviera Armando Diaz, 131, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining
The name of the restaurant is inspired by the yellow of the lampante oil and the scapes, two typically Gallipoli peculiarities that the co-owner, Roberto Podo, wanted to enhance with his Yellow Scapece. The restaurant is located on the first floor of a building facing the sea, above the historic Martinucci ice cream parlour and pastry shop, and from its large windows, you can admire both the sea and the Angevin castle. The menu plays a lot with flavour combinations and seasonality. Among the appetizers, therefore, we can find the cod in squid ink tempura served with a rocket cream, the Ionian squid fried in semolina flour and accompanied by Acquaviva red onion jam or the anchovy millefeuille with chicory and buffalo mozzarella crispy in the oven.

Ristorante Il Bastione - Terrazza Sul Mare

$$$$ Riviera Nazario Sauro, 28, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic
Bulwark on the Ionian Sea, the Il Bastione restaurant stands sentinel over infinity. A timeless place, it opens up to the visitor as a glimmer of the millennial history of the city of Gallipoli, thanks to a skilful recovery of medieval architecture. The golden stone, the colour of the sun, opens up to large and welcoming rooms, embraced by a large window, a natural fresco in which there is no dividing line between sky and sea. On the table are the highest gastronomic delicacies, dominated by the flavours of the sea and the culinary tradition of a land rich in history and culture.

Scafùd Mare

$ Via C. Muzio, 23, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining
An explosion of taste is enclosed in refined sandwiches, tartare, fries and much more. A fish bar to be discovered in the heart of Gallipoli. A few steps from the sea, at Scafùd, you will find what the ocean gives to this glorious land, savouring the freshness of the Mediterranean and the unmistakable taste of its fruits. Crudo, tartare and much more to fully enjoy the joy of food.

Il Pettolino

$$$ Riviera Nazario Sauro, 57, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
Set in the evocative setting of the city of Gallipoli, within the elegant walls of Palazzo Grumesi, Il Pettolino Gallipoli awaits you to offer you an experience of great cuisine and tradition. The emerging star of the Italian gastronomic scene, Executive Chef Vito Gaballo specializes in the haute cuisine of Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi. Since 2018 at the helm of the Il Pettolino Gallipoli restaurant, he invents and perfects unique multisensory experiences every day. Modern and tied to traditions. Innovative cuisine is always attentive to the flavours of the Salento area. Il Pettolino Gallipoli stands out for its quality traditional dishes, gourmet cuisine and the freshness of the raw materials. Quality always comes first.

YOU - Cibo E Piacere

$$$$ Via Petrelli, 15, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
At You - Food and Pleasure, you will find what best represents the concept of modernity and evolution. A few steps from the historic centre of Gallipoli, You evolve, grow, study and move forward with the times, building a concept that enhances its qualities and tends to distinguish it from the others. It is a menu that mainly sees fish at the centre of everything but also broadens its horizons to other elements, especially land. Seafood appetizers and more lead the way to a truly varied menu, which leaves no room for the undecided. The hand of the chef is evident; a touch is enough to revolutionize a flavour or a spice.

Osteria Sant’Angelo

$$$$ Via De Pace Antonio, 3, 73041, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining
A magical, intimate, romantic place that instils peace and serenity. At the Osteria Sant'Angelo, you will feel at home. In addition to a very welcoming location with a romantic air, perfect for a dinner for two, the tavern offers a menu full of appetizers; there is no shortage of seafood first and second courses. The proposed cuisine is traditional, but the unmistakable touch of the chef makes everything more suggestive, giving creativity, giving art to his dishes and giving a great sense of satisfaction to his guests, who are always satisfied and enraptured. The fresh and daily catch guarantees an absolute, first-rate quality of the products.

AMU Fish Restaurant & Store

$$$$ Riviera Armando Diaz, 9, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Fine dining Elegant & Chic
A beautiful terrace overlooking the sea, a romantic, magical place where you can enjoy the beauty of the landscape and good food at the same time. We find the Amu Fish Restaurant near the coast in the city of Gallipoli. A truly enchanting place, where the landscape and this huge blue expanse give customers a truly unforgettable experience. A seafood cuisine, fresh fish, excellent raw materials, and the skilful hands of the chef offer a cuisine that is traditional but also modern, creative, and elusive, which leaves room for the imagination. Appetizers, first courses, second courses and much more, at Amu, we rediscover true love for good food.

Trattoria La Puritate

$$$$ Via Sant'Elia, 18, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining
In one of the oldest villages of the ancient city, near the Puritate church, one of the most loved restaurants in Gallipoli has always been a place devoted to fish. The very fresh raw material is the master, prepared with a light and expert hand, capable of enhancing the flavours of the sea. The menu, by voice, changes according to the offer of the day. As soon as you take a seat on the elegant glazed veranda, the large roundup of raw and cooked appetizers of proven freshness will begin: from the extraordinary raw prawns to stuffed mussels, cooked and marinated bonito, from raw tuna (exceptional for its flavour) to sliced octopus to rice with almonds and radishes (less exciting). We continue with tagliolini with lemon, rocket and prawns, a straightforward but delicate dish, as well as pasta with bonito and cherry tomatoes. Among the second courses, you will find prawns in salt and wind: a preparation that is once again simple but capable of enhancing the superb raw material.

La Locanda Degli Angioini

$$$ Riviera Armando Diaz, 119, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining
A ridosso del mare, sullo splendido sfondo della città di Gallipoli, troviamo La Locanda degli Angioini. Un ristorante con vista mozzafiato sul mare, che da l'impressione di mangiarci sopra, dando ai turisti e ai clienti l'impressione di cenare tra le acque del mar Ionio. Un ristorante che propone cucina pugliese tradizionale, contando nel menu numerose pietanze a base di pesce, grazie al continuo scarico di materie prime. Antipasti a base di mare, primi e secondi di mare, ma non solo, c'è scelta anche per chi non gusta una cucina marinara, proponendo anche i classici, facendo tutti contenti.

Matre Ristorante

$$$$ Via Antonietta De Pace, 116, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Casual Dining
Salento has always been recognized as a land of prosperity, abundance and good food. The Ionian and Adriatic coasts bring the abundance of the sea to shore, with daily fresh catches and many other delicacies. At Matre, a restaurant near the Ionian coast, fish is the order of the day. A modern restaurant with a beautiful internal garden offers its customers traditional but also modern cuisine, creating a mix of flavours and smells that will leave you breathless. With its smells and delicacies, Puglia meets the skilful hand of the chefs, who, thanks to a lot of hard work, constantly satisfy the diners' palates, making them live an unforgettable culinary experience.

Ristorante La Giudecca

$$$$ Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, Lungomare Galileo Galilei, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
We find the La Giudecca restaurant in the heart of Gallipoli, a few steps from the sea. A place where fish is sacred. The daily catch, guaranteed by many trusted suppliers, guarantees the incredible freshness of the raw material, creating a mix of rarely disappointing flavours and expectations. Appetizers based on raw seafood, first courses with grouper sauce, monkfish, cuttlefish, squid, lobster and much more. The kingdom of the sea reigns supreme in La Giudecca.

Osteria Briganti

$$ Via Antonietta De Pace, 107, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Casual Dining Family Style
A welcoming, familiar place that tastes like home. The Osteria Briganti welcomes you to this simple but beautiful place carved out of stone, which offers a simple but delicious seafood cuisine. The typical dishes are proposed again, especially the fish-based appetizers, coming from the catch of the day along the Ionian and Adriatic coasts and their fish-based first courses. A courteous, well-prepared staff, who with great preparation is preparing to make you live a gastronomic experience to remember, enjoying the delicious fresh fish and enjoying the natural beauty of the splendid Gallipoli.

Da Clara

$$$ Via Antonietta De Pace, 15, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
A restaurant with deep Salento roots, rooted in years, decades and more than a century of history, meets contemporary culture, merging tradition with modernity. The Da Clara restaurant is an institution in Gallipoli, which for years now has been offering culinary joys to the palates of hundreds of diners. A traditional cuisine which revisits the Apulian gastronomic panorama, putting it at the centre of the scene and, above all, elevating it. From homemade orecchiette to stew, stew, fish main courses, with the daily catch, to soft meats in butter from selected Salento farms. All autochthonous and pure, like the healthy air of Puglia.

Ristorante L'Angolo Blu

$$$$ Via C. Muzio, 45, 73014, Gallipoli
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Premium Casual
L'Angolo Blu, an elegant restaurant with seafood cuisine, a few steps from one of the major attractions of Gallipoli, the Cathedral of Sant'Agata, is the perfect location to enjoy fish specialities in the historic centre, located among the alleys of the city old. Cosy location, ideal for romantic dinners for couples (but not only), with furnishings in a refined style and, obviously, a predominance of the colour blue, from the tablecloths to the furnishing accessories. Here you can taste famous seafood dishes cooked by modern chefs, able to amaze with innovative recipes but always with an attentive and respectful eye on the best and most traditional specialities of the local cuisine for an enhancement of Apulian gastronomy revisited in an excellent current key, and with the certainty of top-level raw materials, most of the time at km 0. The protagonist of each dish is obviously the fish, from the local purple shrimp to the catch of the day, from the delicious sea urchins to the carpaccio guaranteed from all points of view, with particular regard to the freshness of the product.

Antica Osteria Del Mare

$$$$ Via Ascanio Sforza, 105, 20141, Chiesa Rossa, Milan
Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style
The Antica Osteria del Mare restaurant in Milan delights its customers with typical Sardinian products such as Carasau bread, pecorino cheeses served with honey (particularly strawberry tree honey), 'racing' bluefin tuna from Carloforte and mullet roe. In the restaurant, the entire staff offers you the possibility to choose between the extensive fish courses with a typical preparation of the Sardinian region. The courses carefully prepared by the chefs are outlined between different fish dishes, including baby octopus with polenta, octopus with potatoes, grilled or au gratin scallops, sea truffles, oysters, sea urchins, spider crab in oil and lemon, mixed raw and seafood and shellfish, tartare and scampi with seasonal vegetables and house marinated anchovies. Every day you will find the recommended dishes of fresh products from trusted suppliers.

Note Di Cucina

$$$$ Viale Monza, 16, 20127, Milan
Italian Casual Dining Family Style
Located in an old Milanese industrial courtyard a few steps from the city centre, the restaurant stands on a terrace full of flowers where you can spend timeless moments, accompanied by Chopin's piano notes and enjoy the most traditional Italian cuisine dishes. In the kitchen, the undisputed protagonist is fresh pasta; you choose the shape and then your favourite sauce. The dishes in our kitchen follow the seasonality of the raw materials. The imprint of our menu is undoubtedly Emilian, but it still leaves room for recipes from different regions of Italy.

Innocenti Evasioni

$$$$ Via Privata Della Bindellina, 20155, Certosa, Milan
Italian European Mediterranean Premium Casual Elegant & Chic
The Innocenti Evasioni restaurant is the perfect way to escape from metropolitan life and enjoy a gourmet moment of peace and relaxation. We are in the northern area of industrial Milan, in the La Cagnola district, in a charming private street where there was an old farmhouse in the past. In this urban corner, Chef Tommaso Arrigoni has created a suspended world – a small restaurant with only 50 selected seats – where elegance, harmony and taste coexist in a delicate balance.

Forte Milano

$$$$ Viale Monte Grappa, 12b, 20124, Isola, Milan
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining
Forte is made up of two essential "ingredients": on the one hand, the deep love, respect and gratitude for the maritime culinary tradition that strongly characterized the childhood of the owners, thanks to their mothers and grandmothers who lovingly introduced them that incredible heritage culture, leaving them with indelible memories. On the other hand, the a deep and genuine desire to share that heritage since it is known that the extraordinary reality should never remain confined. For this reason, we navigate the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea every day, searching for the best fish to offer customers.
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