Best Premium Casual Restaurants in Italy

Basquiat Il Ristorantino

$$$$ Via Lucana, 3, 75100, Matera

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Basquiat the Little Restaurant looks welcoming and fashionable simultaneously. It draws inspiration from the famous American artist of the 80s, "Jean Michel Basquiat", a very talented, extravagant, controversial and brilliant writer and painter. Chef Giancarlo del Castello, for his open kitchen, uses only products and ingredients characteristic of the Lucanian area and offers innovative dishes. The menu focuses on Lucan specialities and, therefore, ample space for appetizers: broad beans and chicory, with bran peppers and fried breadcrumbs, Matera crapiata, with cereals, a mixture of legumes, vegetables and potatoes, cardoncelli mushrooms, blended with brandy and pesto parsley, tuna carpaccio and much more. At Basquiat's Il Ristorante, you will find a fish-based menu that will bring out the flavours of the sea to the fullest. In the gastronomic offer of the restaurant, the paccheri with cod and cherry tomatoes, the tubettoni with octopus and white bean puree, with cruschi peppers and fried breadcrumbs, the classic linguine allo scoglio and much more stand out.

Ristorante Burro Salato

$$$ Via Rocco Scotellaro, 7, 75100, Matera

Italian French Premium Casual

A simple but sophisticated cuisine in an environment that recreates a typical Provençal country house. Dishes that combine local tradition with French-inspired recipes, savoury Breton galettes and gourmet crêpes. The place to spend moments of romantic relaxation. The journey, before being physical, is internal! From one of the many trips to France, the idea of creating a gastronomic place was born to merge the gastronomic cultures of two apparently distant places. Following Caterina de Medici's footsteps and the Monsù of the court of Ferdinand I of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies, Lucan and French cuisine mix and, merging, create a new culinary world, but strongly influenced by tradition.

Trèsor

$$$$ Lungomare Galileo Galilei, 73014, Gallipoli

Japanese Asian Premium Casual Cocktail Bar

In the charming Gallipoli, a city symbol of Apulian and Italian summer tourism, stands Trèsor, a beautiful cocktail bar and sushi bar, where you can enjoy delicious cocktails of any kind near the sea, letting yourself be enveloped by the unmistakable flavour of the aromas of these delicious creations. Together with them, the real sushi, handmade by Japanese masters, guarantee a discounted goodness of the product, presenting the Japanese dishes with style and class; long remember this wonderful experience at the Trèsor of Gallipoli.

Santa Monaca

$$$ Piazza De Amicis, 13, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Santa Monaca is a charming and renowned restaurant located in the splendid setting of Salento, in Gallipoli in Piazza De Amicis in the historic centre. A place that knows how to pamper its guests as best it can with gastronomic preparations that know how to be appreciated for their taste and freshness. At the Santa Monica restaurant, you will be welcomed by an extremely courteous and helpful staff who will be able to satisfy your every need, not only in gastronomy. Wanting to propose a cuisine with typical features of the Salento lands and at the same time provide customers with an interesting reinterpretation, you will be able to find a varied menu which, however, is centred on the use of typical local products and ingredients. To ensure full compliance with the zero km policy, a constant collaboration is carried out with some local suppliers who provide daily extremely fresh raw materials thanks to which to obtain truly unique dishes.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Osteria Palazzo Granafei

$$$ Via Antonietta De Pace, 85, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Casual Dining Premium Casual

Osteria Casa Noscia tells the uncontaminated story of Salento and Puglia cuisine through the love and passion with which each dish is created. The rediscovery of sought-after raw materials such as spelt, barley, burnt wheat, black chickpeas, ancient grains and spontaneous vegetables evoke lost flavours and are cooked with the same methods and procedures as in the past. The constant search to rediscover foods and dishes of the past and the genuineness of our foods at "Metro" Zero will lead you on a journey to discover the scents and flavours of Salento. And this is how the oldest traditional recipes, such as ciceri e tria, broad beans and chicory, potato panzerotti and homemade orecchiette, return to our table in an atmosphere suspended between the scent of the sea and the charm of the land. The Osteria Casa Noscia is located in the heart of the historic centre of Gallipoli inside Palazzo Granafei.

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.

La Corte | Palazzo Grumesi

$$ Riviera Nazario Sauro, 57, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Premium Casual Pizzeria

Nestled 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 excellent cuisine and tradition based on pizza. The emerging star of the Italian gastronomic scene, Executive Chef Vito Gaballo specializes in the art of pizza by Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi. Modern and tied to traditions. Innovative and always attentive to the flavours of the Salento land. This is how the pizza chef Vito offers on the tables of diners can be defined. The Pettolino Gallipoli stands out for the boundless quality of its dough, the quality tradition, the gourmet pizza and the freshness of the raw materials. Quality always comes first.

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.

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.

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.

Wine Art

$$$$ Via Don Minzoni, N°70, 87036, Rende

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Eating the excellent salmon, tartare, and pasta here is a great experience. You will be offered delicious wine, cordial or champagne. The success of this restaurant would not be possible without the knowledgeable staff. You will definitely be happy with the fast service. You will undoubtedly enjoy the spectacular setting.

Boa Sorte

$$$$ Via Fratelli Bandiera, 15 A/B, 87036, Rende

Italian Japanese Premium Casual

Innovation and tradition, high-quality raw materials and refined combinations: this is where BOA SORTE was born. The restaurant's mission is based on the continuous discovery of new flavours and refined combinations, aiming for excellence and quality. A journey between Italy and Japan, from sushi to seafood cuisine. The proposed Drink list was created on the study of the entire menu to find the perfect combination. With attention to the smallest details, the welcoming location is ideal for spending an evening in the company in the name of an original and always new experience, a journey through different flavours and cultures for an experience that will amaze you.

A La Villa Pizzeria

$$ PIAZZA Roma, 1, 88068, Soverato

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual Pizzeria

The project of "A La Villa pizzeria", located in the village of Soverato Superiore, began to take shape in the summer of 2017 when after an experience in the world of catering, I began to get passionate about research and experimentation through the choice of materials and the discovery of new combinations. Thanks to a series of training courses and many hours behind the wood oven, in August 2018, I started this new adventure. Over the months, I have decided to combine the classic round pizzas with new creations with new textures and structures, experimenting in the field that innovation learned in the various courses I attended. Since that day, I have always been on the lookout for new tastes, experimenting with doughs and never neglecting to research raw materials among the excellence of the territory, following the seasonality of the products and the rhythms of nature.

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