The Top 100 Places to Eat Near AceroRosso
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Rank 4. SanBrite
Alpine Italian
Waiters arrive in procession carrying mountains of creamy butter, served with bread before anything else has happened, which sets the tone for what SanBrite is doing. This one-Michelin-star dining room in the Dolomites has just a handful of tables, recycled wood on the walls, and a window framing the Ampezzo peaks. The kitchen draws on home-produced and regional mountain ingredients, with desserts that skip added sugar entirely.
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Rank 5. Tivoli
Modern Italian
An Alpine chalet on the road to the Falzarego pass, with the Tofane peaks filling the window if you remembered to ask for one of the two tables by the glass when you booked. This is a Michelin-starred fine dining room where the chef moves between mountain tradition and more inventive territory, sourcing fish daily from the Venice and Chioggia markets while the wine cellar runs deep into historic French bottles. Cortina's well-heeled skiers tend to fill it without much fuss.
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Rank 6. Dolada
Italian
A Michelin-starred dining room perched above Lake Santa Croce, where the De Pra family has been cooking mountain food for generations. Game, mushrooms, and freshwater fish come from the surrounding hills and the kitchen's own garden, prepared with enough restraint that you can taste where you are. An open fireplace does real cooking duty. The room mixes antique furniture with clean modern lines, and the views through the windows do half the work before the food arrives.
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Two of the dining room tables sit directly in front of a working fireplace, and regulars know to book those first. This Michelin-starred inn in the Alpago hills has been around forever, run by the same family across several generations, and the kitchen still leans on regional ingredients before adding any modern flourish. There's a more polished room for those who want it, a solid wine list, and a handful of guestrooms upstairs if the drive back feels ambitious.
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A wood-paneled stube inside the La Perla hotel, all warm timber and candlelight, sets up exactly the cozy Alpine dining room you'd expect in Corvara, and then the food goes somewhere else entirely. The chef grew up in Calabria and spent years cooking in Japan, and those two poles show up on the plate in ways that feel considered rather than restless. The kitchen leans toward vegetables. One Michelin star.
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A glass and steel cube sitting in the old Grand Hotel gardens in Dobbiaco, Tilia holds a Michelin star and just five tables, so booking before you travel is non-negotiable. The chef sources flour and meat from a childhood friend's farm nearby, then pulls in caviar and truffles when the mood strikes, making the menu feel grounded and quietly extravagant at once. Twelve seats means the room is either full or it isn't.
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Rank 10. Baita Fraina
Regional Austrian
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Rank 11. Porcino
Creative Mediterranean
Glass walls on three sides put the Dolomites in the room whether you ordered them or not. This is a Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant inside a hotel in Badia, where the chef runs two menus, one chasing the season and one chasing his own ideas, often pulling from a kitchen garden and local Wagyu. Mountain cooking with Mediterranean instincts, worked into dishes that take their time. The views do too.
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Rank 12. El Brite de Larieto
Alpine German
Tucked into a small larch wood on the road to Passo Tre Croci, this agriturismo sits among the Dolomites and runs its own stable on the property. The restaurant leans hard into Alpine tradition: house-made charcuterie and aged cheeses share the table with creamy butter, local herbs, and berries foraged nearby. The kind of place where the ingredient list is basically a hike you could take after lunch.
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Rank 14. Ristorante de LEN
Alpine Italian
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Rank 16. Alla Pace
Friulian Italian
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Rank 17. Al Borgo
Regional Italian
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Rank 18. Locanda San Martino
Venetian
A country inn in the Alpago hills where the lamb on your plate was raised on the family's own farm nearby. The kitchen leans into the Venetian seasons, keeping things classic with just enough modern instinct to feel considered rather than dusty. When the weather cooperates, the terrace catches the sunset over the valley in a way that makes it hard to leave. An old-school family operation, the women of the house having kept it going for generations.
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Rank 19. Alle Codole
Italian
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Rank 20. Cocun Cellar Restaurant
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 21. Terracotta
Contemporary Italian
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A cable car gets you here for lunch; a snowcat gets you home after dinner, which should tell you something about how seriously the Dolomites take atmosphere. Despite the name, this is a proper alpine restaurant, not a hiker's hut, and the menu knows it: hearty mountain staples share space with modern dishes and, somehow, oysters. Evening service slows down enough to match the scenery.
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Rank 24. Ladinia
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 25. Bistrot La Perla
Italian
The large wooden bar anchors this all-day bistro inside the La Perla hotel, where the bartenders keep busy from aperitivo hour well into dinner. Mountain lodge décor leans cheerful rather than rustic-chic, and live music fills the room most evenings. The menu runs through the familiar notes of Italian tradition, and the wine list is serious enough to keep a sommelier quiet for a while.
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A cable-car ride, or a ski-in if you planned ahead, lands you at this lunch-only fine dining room perched above Corvara with floor-to-ceiling views of Sassongher and La Varella doing most of the decorating. The cooking is modern and quietly ambitious, pairing Alpine ingredients with fresh seafood in a way that feels pleasantly unexpected at altitude. Minimalist inside, maximalist outside.
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Rank 27. Rifugio Fuciade
Alpine Italian
A mountain pasture for centuries before it became a dining room, Rifugio Fuciade sits in the Dolomites with the Costabella chain as a backdrop and Pale di San Martino dissolving into the distance. The menu reads like a regional field guide, canederli, veal stew with polenta, chanterelle mushrooms, the kind of Alpine cooking that makes sense when snow is involved. A wine cellar with over 600 labels, and rooms if you'd rather not drive back down.
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Rank 29. Mondschein
Alpine Italian
A family-run restaurant tucked into the Dolomite valley of Sappada, where the kitchen leans hard into the forest around it, wild game, mountain herbs, and whatever the season allows. The wine cellar, called KAVEAU, is the kind of room that turns a bottle of something regional into an event. The crowd tends toward people who planned the drive, not stumbled in. Michelin has it in the Guide.
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Rank 30. InAlto Alfio Ghezzi Dolomites
Alpine Italian
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Rank 31. Maso Runch-Hof
South Tyrolean Italian
A farmhouse restaurant set in the woods above Pedraces, Maso Runch-Hof serves Ladin home cooking in snug, wood-paneled Stube rooms on a single tasting menu. The kitchen leans into the local pantry with spinach-filled cajinci t'ega, pork ribs with polenta, and apple strudel, and the short wine list stays just as regional. A handful of chalets on the property means you can eat like this, then sleep here too.
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Rank 32. Suinsom
Mediterranean Italian
Suinsom means "at the top" in Ladin, and the name doubles as a quiet statement of intent. This Michelin-starred fine dining room in the Dolomites wraps guests in pale wood stube while the kitchen, rooted in the chef's Tuscan background, drifts toward the Mediterranean and beyond. The wine list is organized by grape variety, which tells you something about the crowd that fills these tables. Dress accordingly.
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Rank 33. Durnwald
Austrian
A plate of Schlutzkrapfen, the spinach-and-ricotta ravioli of Alto Adige, arrives after you've earned it on the slopes or the trail. This is a traditional regional restaurant in the Val Casies that takes its local roots seriously, with mountain views framing the dining room and a menu that hasn't forgotten what it's supposed to be. The owner runs the floor himself, steering you through the wine list with the ease of someone who actually cares. A Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Up to eight guests share one long table pulled right up to the kitchen pass, which tells you everything about the format here. This is an intimate tasting-menu restaurant in the Austrian Tirol where a surprise menu of four to seven courses is the only option, built entirely from ingredients sourced nearby. The cooking is precise and quietly ambitious, and the front-of-house warmth makes the whole thing feel less like a performance than a dinner party.
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The dining room leans minimalist and intimate, a quiet contrast to the alpine grandeur just outside the windows. This is the fine dining restaurant inside one of Val Gardena's most lavish hotels, holding a Michelin star for the chef's habit of threading Dolomite tradition through a Southern Italian sensibility. Tasting menus anchor the format, though you can pick from them à la carte if committing to a full journey feels like too much of a commitment.
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Rank 37. Alla Locanda
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 38. Gannerhof
Regional Austrian
Sitting at around 1,400 metres in the Austrian Alps, this Michelin-starred farmhouse restaurant is the kind of place that makes the drive feel preordained. Three old timber farmhouses surround a kitchen garden, and the dining rooms lean into the setting without trying too hard. The seven-course menu takes regional ingredients somewhere unexpected, and the bread comes from flour milled on the property, which is either charming or showing off, possibly both.
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Sitting at the base of a ski slope in a small Tyrolean village, this hotel restaurant earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand with seasonal alpine cooking that draws non-guests in from the cold. The room is cheerful and modern without the usual antler overload. Lunch and dinner run à la carte, and evenings bring an optional multi-course surprise menu of regionally inspired dishes. The kind of place that makes you reconsider your early departure.
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Rank 40. Ristorante Da Anita - Chalet Prà delle Nasse
Alpine Italian
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Rank 42. Strasserwirt Gourmetstuben
Regional Austrian
Three dining rooms, each done in a completely different register, share a roof inside Hotel Strasserwirt. This is a regional set-menu restaurant where the Swiss stone pine panelling in one room gives way to handmade emerald-green floor tiles in the next, and exposed stone walls in a third. Up to five courses pull from the surrounding landscape, with char, wild mushrooms, and foraged herbs doing most of the work. Old-school Alpine dining, taken seriously.
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Rank 45. Osteria da Cippi
Italian
A chalet fireplace that smells of woodsmoke in a village so small you'll question your GPS twice sets the scene for this traditional Italian osteria. The kitchen follows the mountain calendar closely, moving from wild herbs in spring to woodland fruits in autumn. One tasting menu, booked at least two days ahead, which is either charming or inconvenient depending on your travel style.
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Rank 46. Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler
Alpine Italian
A villa that once housed a textile factory still keeps an early-20th-century fabric sample book on the central table, which sets the tone for a restaurant that takes its surroundings seriously. Norbert Niederkofler's "Cook the Mountain" tasting menu pulls entirely from the alpine valleys around Brunico, courses shifting with whatever the season actually offers. Three Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, ranked 20th.
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Rank 47. AlpiNN by Norbert Niederkofler
Alpine New American
You reach this mountain restaurant by cable car from Riscone, then on foot through the snow, which sets expectations appropriately. Norbert Niederkofler's "Cook the Mountain" philosophy means the seasonal Alpine menu wastes nothing and imports nothing it doesn't have to. The five tables with the view go to tasting-menu guests, booked well ahead. The last cable car down leaves at 5pm, so yes, plan accordingly.
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Rank 48. Das Pfleger
Modern Austrian
Perched above 1,200 metres on the Val Pusteria scenic road, this alpine restaurant in a family-run hotel earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for seasonal regional cooking with a quiet modern touch. The terrace looks out over the Dolomites and Carnic Alps, which does a lot of the work before anyone's even ordered. Dinner runs either à la carte or a four-to-five course surprise menu; Sundays bring a shorter lunch.
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Rank 49. Indiniò
Regional Italian
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A glass-walled Alpine dining room suspended above Moena with the whole Val di Fassa spread out below you, which does raise the question of how much attention you'll pay to the plate. The answer is quite a lot, since this Michelin-starred restaurant trades in creative, territory-rooted cuisine that quietly outpaces its postcard setting. The wine list leans into local terroir with some care. An old mountain dairy it once was; the only remnant now is the name.
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Rank 53. Agritur El Mas
Alpine Italian
The cows, horses, and pigs outside are not decorative; they end up on the plate, as charcuterie, braised stews, and cheese dumplings made with the farm's own production. This agriturismo above Moena is the working-farm-restaurant in full Alpine earnest, with antique wood furnishings and a brazier anchoring the dining room. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place this straightforwardly good at what it does.
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Rank 54. Ostaria Tyrol
Regional Italian
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A modern Stube tucked beside a hotel entrance in the center of Ortisei, with round tables, large windows, and a summer terrace looking out over the small town. The kitchen leans on Alto Adige tradition but lets in fish, seafood, and ingredients from further afield, keeping things lighter than the alpine norm. The chef holds a Michelin star and has made the duck a reason to pay attention. Butter and sugar take a back seat here, which is a rare position in the Dolomites.
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Rank 56. Foresta
Regional Italian
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Rank 57. Le Macine
Regional Italian
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Rank 59. La Primula
Modern Italian
A majestic fireplace anchors the dining room of this one-Michelin-star restaurant in the Magredi countryside, an old-school institution run by the Canton family for generations. The kitchen moves between land and sea with a modern hand, while the wine cellar is the kind of thing sommeliers text each other about: serious depth, reasonable mark-ups, and thoughtful pours by the glass. An informal osteria in the same building handles lunch if you want to ease in gently.
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Rank 60. Tubladel
Alpine Italian
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Rank 61. Lerchner's In Runggen
South Tyrolean Italian
The beef on your plate was raised on the farm next door, which sets the tone for this cozy South Tyrolean restaurant in the Val Pusteria hills. The menu runs through regional classics like Gröstl and rye fritters, with generous portions or smaller "Tyrolean tapas" if you'd rather graze. The wine list stays firmly local, the bread is made in-house, and the apple strudel is non-negotiable. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 62. Osteria dai Mazzeri
Venetian
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Rank 63. Aurora
Modern Italian
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Frescoes on the walls, herbs from the kitchen garden on the plate: this is a formal restaurant inside a villa hotel in the Veneto countryside, with a fireplace for winter and a courtyard for summer. The young chef grew up cooking here, which shows in dishes built around vegetables and local producers. The wine list leans heavily into Riesling if that's your thing. A bistro handles the lighter, more casual lunch crowd next door.
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Rank 65. Schöneck
Alto Adige Italian
A piano in front of the bar sets the tone at this Michelin-starred restaurant in South Tyrol, where wood-paneled Stube rooms and a shaded summer terrace frame cooking that hasn't chased a trend in decades. The kitchen leans into Alto Adige classics, built on locally sourced ingredients and prepared with the kind of quiet confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. The wine list is serious enough to deserve its own attention.
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A Michelin-starred dining room inside the Engel resort in the Dolomites, where wood, stone, and local materials give the space a warmth that doesn't feel designed to death. The chef's table doubles as a spot for aperitifs served by the chef personally, which sets the tone: attentive without being stiff. The kitchen leans into alpine ingredients and seasonal vegetables with enough technique to make the restraint feel intentional. The sommelier knows the regional wine list cold.
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Rank 69. Osteria Borgo Ronche
Seafood
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Rank 70. Gassenwirt
South Tyrolean Italian
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Twelve apostle statuettes watch over a four-table dining room inside a hotel that has been around forever, which lends the whole experience a pleasantly surreal weight. This is a fine-dining tasting menu restaurant, and chef Mathias Bachmann's cooking pulls from global technique with a particular lean toward Japan, then lands it somewhere unmistakably alpine. The service team will also tell you, with evident delight, about the elephant. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 72. Tanzer
Modern Austrian
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Rank 73. Ansitz 12
Seasonal Austrian
The open fire in the kitchen is doing real work here, not just ambience. Tucked inside an old inn near the Pfarrbrücke in Lienz, this Michelin-starred restaurant runs on regional Austrian ingredients, wood smoke, and sauces that taste like they simmered longer than your flight here. The chef trained under some serious names before coming home to cook tasting menus of four, six, or seven courses in vaulted, stove-warmed rooms.
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Rank 74. La Ciotola
Italian
A roadside trattoria on the way to Pordenone where the kitchen moves comfortably between land and sea, shifting from hearty meat dishes to seafood pasta without missing a beat. Lunch runs leaner, both in price and pace; dinner stretches out into a fuller affair. The brothers who run it keep things personal without letting them get sloppy, which is a harder balance to strike than it sounds.
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Rank 75. Borgo Poscolle
Friulian Italian
Cjarsons, the local ravioli whose filling shifts with whatever the season hands the kitchen, are a good reason to find yourself in this small family trattoria in the Carnia mountains. The team cooks from a deep Friulian tradition, with vegetables from their own organic garden doing quiet work in the background. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place this unfussy and this specific about where things come from.
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Rank 76. Kircherhof
Alpine Austrian
An old farmstead in Albes where the family pivoted from growing produce to cooking it, and the kitchen still works almost entirely with organic, local ingredients. It's a sit-down restaurant with a contemporary Alpine menu: colorful plates, generous portions, and an all-female front-of-house team genuinely happy to walk you through the philosophy. There's also a small shop on the way out, which is dangerous if you arrived on an empty stomach.
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Rank 77. Locanda da Condo
Venetian
Roast goose leg and braised pork cheek in Prosecco country, where the hills are tidy and the vines run in rows all the way to the horizon. This old-school family trattoria has been running on Venetian tradition for generations, and the dining room feels it, warm and a little worn in the best sense. A vine-covered veranda opens in summer for anyone happy to eat slowly and drink locally. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 78. Osteria da Afro
Regional Italian
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Rank 79. Der Unterwirt
Mediterranean
The wood paneling in the more romantic of the two Stube dining rooms has been here since the 13th century, which puts the candlelight in perspective. This is a family-run restaurant in a private house in the South Tyrolean hills, where the chef works Mediterranean influences and a strong lean toward fish into the local Alto Adige framework. A summer terrace and a handful of guestrooms round things out if you'd rather not drive back down.
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Rank 80. Sostansa
Contemporary Italian
A contemporary Italian restaurant just outside Pordenone's traffic-restricted center, where the kitchen leans into bold, market-driven cooking that moves between land and sea with some confidence. Dishes lean seasonal and generous, the kind of place where the menu shifts with what's good rather than what's safe. The room reads like a proper dinner out, not a quick bite, and the cooking has enough edge to keep things interesting.
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The floor of a seventeenth-century mill creaks underfoot as you settle in, which sets the mood for what Alessandro Gilmozzi is doing in Cavalese. This is a Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant where alpine foraging is taken seriously: lichens, barks, resins, and local herbs appear alongside game and freshwater fish, with smoking techniques that suggest the kitchen is part apothecary. The mountains outside aren't scenery here; they're the menu.
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Rank 82. Oste Scuro - Finsterwirt
Traditional Mediterranean
Tucked into a narrow alley near the Duomo, this old-school trattoria has been feeding Bressanone locals for generations, its dining rooms dressed in historic dark wood with a terrace that fills up the moment summer arrives. The kitchen straddles South Tyrolean and Mediterranean traditions, turning out tasting menus alongside à la carte options, with Tirtl, a fried ricotta and spinach pastry, among the dishes regulars tend to order without consulting the menu.
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Walls lined floor to ceiling with bottles give Vitis the feel of a very stylish cellar someone forgot to close up. It's a wine bar in the old center of Brixen, where low tables, armchairs, and bar stools share space without committing to any one vibe. The kitchen leans contemporary, with generous small plates that land somewhere between South Tyrolean and European without making a fuss about it.
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Rank 84. La Ferrata
Friulian Italian
Photographs of old locomotives and rows of copper pots line the walls of this long-running osteria in Pordenone's historic center. The kitchen leans hard into Friulian tradition, turning out cured meats, local cheeses, and braised beef cheek with polenta, the kind of food that arrives in portions sized for people who actually work. The room runs warm and convivial, the way an old neighborhood place does when it has nothing to prove.
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Rank 86. Locanda Solagna
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 89. Alpenrose
Regional Mediterranean
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Rank 90. Il Favri
Friulian Italian
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The winter garden juts out over Tristachersee on stilts, so in calm weather you're essentially eating on the water. This hotel restaurant leans hard into the setting: the char, trout, and Danube salmon come from the family's own fish ponds nearby, and the kitchen builds seasonal menus around mostly local produce. A glass of their own spring water arrives gratis, which is a quietly charming touch for a place that could easily coast on the view.
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Rank 92. La Passion
Italian
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Rank 93. Tre Noghere
Traditional Italian
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Rank 94. Gellivs
Modern New American
Dinner here is served among Roman-era archaeological remains inside a museum, which sets a certain expectation that the kitchen then quietly upends. The creative cooking holds one Michelin star and moves between traditional Veneto flavors and something noticeably stranger and more inventive. The wine list runs deep on both Italian and international labels. Oderzo's dining scene doesn't get much more ambitious than this.
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A castle in the middle of a small South Tyrolean village that somehow runs two dining rooms with completely different personalities. Stain is the wood-paneled Tyrolean stube side, with regional cooking and terrace tables when the weather cooperates. La Lumosa seats four tables and leans into a five or six course contemporary tasting menu. Twelve suites upstairs mean you don't have to figure out the drive home.
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Rank 97. Frosch Restaurant
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 99. Saluti
Modern Pizza
The menu moves from wood-fired pizza to pigeon royale without blinking, which tells you something about the kitchen's ambitions. This is a relaxed restaurant in Matrei that earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand running a menu that spans Italian classics and more involved Alpine plates. The terrace is small but lovely, the wine list is well chosen, and the whole thing sits, delightfully, next to a tennis centre. Book ahead.
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Rank 100. Osteria Borsò Gambrinus
Venetian