2400 Best Italian Restaurants in Italy 2026

Mivà

$$ Via Per Montemesola Km 10, 74123, Taranto

Italian Family Style

Mivà was born in 2017 with one goal: to give you moments of pleasant light-heartedness combined with taste and tradition. Handcrafted products, table service, efficiency and fast team are just some of the components of the Mivà Restaurant, located in the Ipercoop gallery in Taranto.

Ristorante Il Petrosino

$$ Via Alezio Km 1.5 SP Sannicola-Alezio, Tenuta Mosè, 73017, Sannicola

Italian Casual Dining

The Petrosino restaurant is located in the Tenute Mosé Masseria, a few kilometers from Gallipoli. The refined and bucolic background of the panoramic restaurant offers guests the opportunity to have a taste experience in contact with the elegant internal garden of Villa Costa. The Chef offers an original reinterpretation of local food with international influences.

Marea Cucina Marinara

$$ Via XXIV Maggio, 11, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Family Style

Marea is a restaurant placed in the lovely streets of the historic center of Gallipoli, a stone's throw from the Cathedral of Sant'Agata Vergine e Madre. Jump into our seafood cuisine, tasting the best local dishes of the Apulian tradition, revisited in a modern key.

Ristorante DolceVita

$$ Corso Roma, 143, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Casual Dining

An extraordinary roof garden on the Palazzo del Corso, a gourmet restaurant in Gallipoli dedicated to the smallest attention to detail to satisfy the most demanding palates. The stunning view of the Gulf of Gallipoli for delicious dinners under the moonlight, the preparation, and dedication of our staff are only a few of our strengths.  Specializing in seafood, thus paying a tribute to the lasting traditions of the “città bella”, without neglecting vegetarian and meat dishes, the “DolceVita” Restaurant offers specialties carefully prepared by our Chef Andrea Campa, always with top quality ingredients.

ArborVitae

$$ Via G. M. Laggetto, 38, 73028, Otranto

Italian Casual Dining

ArborVitae - Otranto is ready to welcome you and make you live amazing times. With a touch of magic and music, the restaurant is a special place in the heart of the historic center of Otranto, surrounded by the small streets of one of the most beautiful villages in Salento. In the dishes of chef Sirio Paiano we find all the smells, tastes, and "memories" of the heart of Otranto, with typical dishes of the territory.

Pi Greco

$$ Via Delle Torri, 40, 73022, Otranto

Italian Casual Dining

Pi Greco is a restaurant in the historic center of Otranto, defined by the essentiality and confidence of the situation to give space and prominence to the main protagonists, the courses. The chef, Maria Rosaria Peluso, offers cuisine that has as its final goal the exaltation of taste that, with simplicity, meets innovation in the combinations of excellent fresh ingredients and advanced culinary methods.

LaltroBaffo

$$ Via Basiliano Cenobio, 23, 73028, Otranto

Italian Casual Dining

A few steps from the beautiful Cathedral, in the heart of the historic center of Otranto, is born the LaltraBaffo restaurant, by chef Cristina Conte. The selection of ingredients is essential, the products are seasonal and the wild spices, which the Salento land offers, bring back the flavors and aromas of their origins. The recipes of the past are always a primary source of inspiration, but it's the international cuisine that needs to be explored, to reinterpret and propose one's roots, but the challenge remains the search for the perfect balance between lightness, pleasure, and emotion.

Terra Degli Ulivi Restaurant

$$ Via Giurdignano, 73028, Otranto

Italian Casual Dining

Terra Degli Ulivi Restaurant is located between the olive trees of Salento and the Sea of Otranto. The chef of Masseria Muntibianchi prepares typical and exclusive dishes. There is meticulous attention in the preparation of each dish served to our guests, the choice of detail, and the combination of refinement and local production. Dinner is the time to relax and appreciate the taste of dishes that smell of sea and land, immersed in a single mood between the green of the Salento olive trees, the colors of the dry stone walls, and the breeze from Otranto.

Pashà

$$ Via Morgantini 2, 70014, Conversano

Italian Casual Dining

Territoriality and curiosity move the cuisine of Pashà, a restaurant in the heart of Conversano, Bari. Each dish tells the story of a place, of a flicker. Chef Antonio Zaccardi plays, between innovation and tradition, passion and ambition, on a journey in which the twists and turns represent an absurd constant. The style of Pashà doesn't disappoint its origins: it's refined and refined, but it knows how to remain faithful to the flavors of the local gastronomic tradition.

Pescaria

$ Piazza Aldo Moro 6/8, 70044, Polignano A Mare

Italian Family Style

Pescaria is a place in the heart of Polignano a Mare, a few steps from the most famous reef in Puglia. Fish-based cuisine, raw and cooked, with the possibility of choosing gluten-free products, to satisfy all types of customers. Take away and home delivery service is also available.

Jamantè

$$$$ Via San Vito, 97, 70044, Polignano A Mare

Italian Fine dining

Jamantè is the exclusive sea-view restaurant in Polignano. It overlooks that corner of paradise where the blue sky blends with the sea. We serve the most authentic and genuine flavors of Puglia at the table. The true Apulian gastronomic tradition inspires us. Still, we like to "play" with colors, combinations, and harmonies, always respecting and enhancing the raw materials that the best Puglia offers us.

Osteria Di Chichibio

$$ Largo Gelso, 6, 70044, Polignano A Mare

Italian Casual Dining

The Osteria di Chichibio, born in March 2000, is an elegant restaurant where you can enjoy fish specialties, food at km 0 and of the highest quality. It's near the statue of the famous Domenico Modugno. The cuisine is based on fresh local fish and top-quality products at 0 km. Taste, tradition, and authenticity since 2001.

Ristorante Grotta Palazzese

$$$$ Via Narciso, 59, 70044, Polignano A Mare

Italian Fine dining

The Grotta Palazzese restaurant is internationally renowned, as evidenced by the many reviews in the most important magazines and blogs around the world. It has an outdoor room set in a unique place in the world. The terrace that welcomes customers was created inside a natural cave, the Grotta Palazzese. The terrace can contain up to 150 people.

Ristorante Da Tuccino

$$ Via S. Caterina, 69/F, 70044, Polignano A Mare

Italian Casual Dining

Seafood restaurant in Polignano a Mare, Bari. Since 1968 Da Tuccino has been a point of reference in Puglia. A long history of passion for the sea, for food of the highest quality, and for wines, of which there is a wide choice, among more than a thousand labels.

Ristorante Il Bastione

$$$$ Via Conversano 1-1/A, 70044, Polignano A Mare

Italian Casual Dining

Il Bastione Restaurant is located in Polignano a Mare, near Bari. The elegant atmosphere, gourmet fish dishes, and fantastic indoor rooms and terraces will frame your moments in the romantic restaurant. From the terraces overlooking the sea to the internal lounge with sea view windows to our terrace of desires, a romantic location for an intimate and suggestive dinner, your special occasions will have an unforgettable charm and will satisfy your every desire.

Lo Scoglio

$$ Loc. La Spiaggiola Di S.Elia SNC, 09126, Cagliari

Italian Premium Casual

Since 1958, the restaurant Lo Scoglio, in Cagliari, represents and interprets the best cuisine. Classic dishes change face but not spirit, the freshest fish in infinite variations and infinite flavors in a location viewing the amazing sea of Cagliari.

Niu Restaurant

$$ Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 56, 09124, Cagliari

Italian Premium Casual

The charm of tradition, the harmony of taste, the magic of art. In one experience: NIU. The essence of traditional Italian cuisine, in the heart of Cagliari.

Upper House

$$$ Via Dante, 62b, 09127, Cagliari

Italian Fine dining

Upper House is more than a restaurant, a tea room, or a place for gourmet aperitifs, and it is more than a cooking school. Upper House is your corner of relaxation where you can spend pleasant evenings in peace, in front of the fireplace for fine dining, an elegant English tea, or a delicious aperitif. And when you want you can take part in cooking or sweet or savory pastry courses.

Antica Cagliari

$$ Via Sardegna, 49, 09124, Cagliari

Italian Casual Dining

The Sardinian tradition is dressed in novelty and each dish takes on the colors and tastes of the land where creativity and ability coincide. From Ancient Cagliari, you will make a trip from the coast to the hinterland, where the culinary art mixes giving life to new recipes. To guide you, you will find staff with great skill in the sector, which will make you feel at home.

Mari Mannu

$$ Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 206, 09170, Cagliari

Italian Family Style

At the Mari Mannu restaurant in Cagliari you will find a great variety of freshly caught fish every day. A new restaurant concept that will allow you to choose what and how to eat. You can choose your meal from the daily fish counter and also choose the type of cooking... enjoy your meal in a well-kept and furnished atmosphere in every detail.

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