Best Seafood Restaurants in Italy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flora - Fusion Experience

$$$ Via S. Sebastiano, 8, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Asian South American Casual Dining Cocktail Bar

Flora – Fusion Experience is a poke restaurant in Gallipoli that comes from a modern gastronomic concept: the contamination of different types of catering. The focus is the use of local ingredients and raw materials ranging from fish to fruit in an innovative way and through a different gastronomic culture, the Hawaiian one. Molecular cuisine is used for the garnishes, thus giving elegance and modernity to the various dishes. Flora is a place able to offer a mixology and champagne service. A space capable of hosting multiple live musical selections and will offer cocktails in a warm, comfortable environment with a strong reference to the landscapes of Caribbean flora.

Ristorante Marechiaro

$$$$ Lungomare Marconi, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Fine dining

The Marechiaro restaurant specializes in fish dishes from the Mediterranean Sea, which are both cooked and raw. Its position is unique: a rock in the middle of the sea. You can choose directly from the counter in the dining room and request the cooking you prefer. Arrived fresh in the kitchen, the fish is prepared by the skilled hands of the talented chef, who uniquely combines colours and scents: each course is beautiful and delicious, even for the most refined palates. Excellent seafood first courses, fabulous linguine with sea urchins. Delicious seconds. The raw ones are entrancing. We also have a proposal dedicated to celiac customers.

Molo87

$$$$ Via Maria Luigi Greco, 3/5, 87100, Cosenza

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

The restaurant was created to welcome all who want to be pampered by Maître Daniele in a unique and refined environment, but above all, to taste the delights of good fish cuisine, which chef Giampiero prepares with love and passion. Fish and other delicacies are served at the table as first courses, appetizers and main courses for all palates.

Ristorante Al Girone Dei Golosi

$$$ Via Pasquale Rossi, 79, 87100, Cosenza

Italian Casual Dining

An elegant location designed to offer a friendly and serene environment and cuisine that innovates tradition with raw materials selected from local producers and national products from the best partner companies in the sector: Ristorante Enoteca al Girone dei Golosi encompasses all of this, offering an innovative cuisine which does not forget, however, the importance of local and national traditions and the food and wine culture of our land, characteristics of the experience you will have by going there to eat.

Kooki

$$$ Via Calabria, 24, 87100, Cosenza

Japanese Asian Premium Casual

Kooki in Cosenza represents the art of Japanese food transferred to southern Italy. Sushi, the main dish, is the real star of this restaurant. The menu is extensive and offers the best dishes that the Japanese tradition provides; furthermore, thanks to the incredible quality of the fish, absolute goodness is guaranteed in raw fish dishes, from sashimi to hosomaki up to rolls of various kinds, creating a mix of dizzying flavours and smells.

Ristorante Al Vicoletto

$$ Via Simonetta Francesco, Via Francesco Gioia, 9, 87100, Cosenza

Italian European Mediterranean Premium Casual Family Style

The restaurant Ristorante Pizzeria "Al Vicoletto" was born in 1993 from the idea of Pasquale and Francesco; today, it is renowned and affirmed among lovers of good food. Located in the centre of Cosenza in an alley that leads from Simonetta to via Caloprese, hence the choice of the name "Al Vicoletto", the restaurant specializes in typical fish and meat dishes of the best Calabrian and Cosenza tradition without neglecting the traditional pizza. The restaurant has a welcoming indoor dining room and an elegant outdoor space in the summer. We have been a point of reference for over 30 years for a lunch break or dinner in the company of friends or family.

Ristorante Gambero Rosso

$$$$ Via Montezemolo, 65, 89046, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica

Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The restaurant was born from a return home, from the desire of Anna Maria and Giuseppe Sculli to look to the future by starting again from that sea they had left years before as emigrants. The new chapter written by Riccardo and Francesco, sons who grew up in the warmth of a passion whose roots still sink into the land and sea of Calabria, expresses deep respect for the gastronomic tradition and local products, but also the indispensable synergy with local producers and suppliers. Gambero Rosso's dishes are a sensory narration of this land ruffled by the wind and scented by the sea, green with woods and rigorous, humble and capable of surprising. To rediscover the pure, authentic taste of the land and the sea. The gastronomic vision of the modern Gambero Rosso led by Riccardo and Francesco explores the fields of lightness and balance, extrapolating cultural dictates from traditional cuisine and reworking them on always innovative tasting occasions.

Ristorante Abbruzzino

$$$$ Via Fiume Savuto, 88100, Cava-Cuculera Nobile

Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The Abbruzzino restaurant, Michelin star 2023, changes its face in 2016. Access through a small garden, dominated by the green lawn, leads to a room where six tables find space in a modern, minimal environment characterized by grey-clay tones and almond-white. The chef gives you the opportunity to enter his world, visit his kitchen and leave your mark. A refined, elegant place that makes you understand the weight of its name and the star that it proudly wears on every chef's apron. A modern, theatrical cuisine that enchants anyone who sits at the table to try this out-of-the-ordinary experience.

Ristorante RURIS

$$$$ C/DA MAZZOTTA, 88841, Isola di Capo Rizzuto

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The menu finds its favourite ally in fish, reworked with flashes of imagination by chef Natale Pallone. The intimate and welcoming restaurant is immersed in a rural atmosphere (as its name suggests) in the Capo Rizzuto Marine Protected Area. The cellar holds over 200 wine labels and over 60 fine international spirits. Elegant, refined, fine dining place, perfect for a romantic dinner for special occasions. A relaxing atmosphere to enjoy top-level cuisine with a tasting and a la carte menu.

Pietramare Natural Food Restaurant

$$$$ Località Praialonga, 88841, Isola di Capo Rizzuto

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Sitting at the table at Pietramare is an authentic culinary journey, but it is also a stay here and now. Proximity cuisine follows nature's rhythms and uses local raw materials. A table is a place for sharing, an opportunity for discovery and enrichment. It's not just what's on the plate that counts, but what's in the hands and hearts of those who thought up and prepared that dish. For you. The bread, the pasta, the pastry, self-produced with ancient grains, and the rice from the rice fields of Sibari: the essence of a Calabria rich in culture, history and traditions, which we want to celebrate with a contemporary and health-conscious breath. Fresh fish, meat, wild herbs, and vegetables from the organic garden, generous nature is waiting to give us its extraordinary gifts, which we just have to collect.

Hyle

$$$$ Località Torre Garga, S.da 107 Silana Crotonese, 87055, San Giovanni in Fiore

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The Hyle concept combines two paths, the personal one of Antonio Biafora and the territorial one, represented by the rediscovery of the "via della pece". Pitch Bruzia is a precious raw material with a thousand uses: medicine, naval engineering, handicrafts, and conservation. The woodcutters extracted it from the trunk of the larch pine by carving herringbone channels. Thus, rediscovering an ancient and noble custom, we came across a path of our own, more singular than ever, the path of the pitch. Biafora intends to retrace this path, which starts from the hills overlooking the sea and reaches the top of the mountains, a short route which, however, includes a fertile territory rich in different and exciting raw materials, from which we start to build a kitchen that , enriched by the chef's experience and past, draws a map of territorial excellence, identifying farmers, breeders and small producers and activates a chain of economic and social sustainability.

San Domenico

$$$$ Via Colapesce, Parcheggio Papa Inferiore, 1, 89812, Pizzo

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

On the Costa degli Dei, this small liaison with the sea is born, which tends to renew itself every time between its landscape and dishes. Respect, creativity and enhancement of the raw material. At the San Domenico restaurant, you breathe tradition, innovation, quality and spontaneity. The culture of food, its history, and everything behind the preparation, thanks to Chef Bruno Tassone, comes to the surface. Each dish tells a different story, which he passes on thanks to his wisdom and diligent hands. The freshest products on the market, the best, to guarantee the best experience for its diners.

Qafiz

$$$$ Località Calabretto, 89056, Santa Cristina D'Aspromonte

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Sit around the Qafiz kitchen to share the bond with the territory, the love for the landscape and the desire to be protagonists of evolving traditions. A research cuisine that maintains solid relationships with the surrounding area through the dialogue between man and nature. The full interaction between the customer and the chef is the symbol of the breaking down of distances, whether conceptual, linguistic or cultural. Just sit at the counter to decipher the flavours from a wild setting like Aspromonte with its wild herbs, traditions, and colours.

Castello Degli Dei

$$$ Via Papa Giovanni Paolo II, 1, 89017, San Giorgio Morgeto

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The Castello degli Dei restaurant is a reinterpretation of a medieval castle. The large room is furnished with modern furniture, creating an elegant contrast with the structure. A wide range of wines from the most renowned labels is available, which will be served with fish or meat dishes, the result of our chef's culinary research. A refined cuisine that offers only the best to its customers, pampering them with raw materials of the highest quality, impeccable service and a fairy-tale location that will take your breath away.

Ristorante Locanda Toscano

$$$ Via Benedetto, Via B. Musolino, 22, 89812, Pizzo

Italian Fine dining

Chef Caterina's cuisine is completely Calabrian, linked to the ingredients the area gives and interpreted with a mixture of tradition, innovation and the utmost respect. Lightness, taste and care of presentations are the salient features of each dish that arrives on the table. There is no shortage of proposals for vegetarians and celiacs. High-quality raw materials combined with preparation techniques mastered with sincere professionalism offer excellent experiences to the palate.

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