The Top 93 Places to Eat Near Henri Restaurant
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A Michelin-starred restaurant inside Viareggio's grand Plaza e de Russie hotel, with dining room windows facing the famous seafront promenade. The chef, Luca Landi, builds tasting menus around local seafood, coastal vegetables, and inland producers, with a circular cooking philosophy that genuinely shapes the menu rather than decorating the marketing. The wine list runs to around 800 labels, with an unusually strong by-the-glass selection for anyone not committing to a bottle.
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Rank 2. Romano
Seafood
A Michelin-starred seafood restaurant in Viareggio that has been around forever, Romano is the kind of place where the traditions feel load-bearing rather than decorative. The kitchen leans on pristine local fish, with the occasional nod to classic Versilian recipes, while the current chef quietly modernizes around the edges. Out front, the service reads like a proper act of hospitality, wine recommendations included.
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Rank 3. Henri Restaurant
Contemporary Italian
The open kitchen keeps things honest at this contemporary Italian restaurant on the Viareggio coast, where the menu splits cleanly between meat and fish and French technique quietly shapes both sides. The maître knows the cellar as well as the kitchen, and the cellar runs deep, Sassicaia to Petrus, so dinner here has a way of becoming a longer conversation than you planned.
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Rank 4. Il Piccolo Principe
Contemporary Italian
The bread trolley alone, loaded with farro and rye loaves baked in-house, signals you're in for a long, considered evening. Il Piccolo Principe is the two-Michelin-starred fine dining room inside the Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte, where the chef, Campanian by background, quietly makes the case for Tuscan ingredients through a lens that has nothing to do with rustic trattoria nostalgia. Three tasting menus to choose from, each progressively more elaborate.
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Rank 5. Da Miro alla Lanterna
Mediterranean Seafood
A seat overlooking the tourist harbour in Viareggio, this old-school seafood institution has been feeding the city long enough that regulars don't bother consulting the menu. The kitchen handles crustaceans and deep-water catch with quiet confidence, and the spaghetti alla Trabaccolara, a Viareggio recipe built on tomato and fish, is the dish locals will mention unprompted. The room is classic and elegant, the service professional without being stiff.
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Rank 6. MaMe Restaurant
Modern Seafood
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Rank 7. Giardino di Mari
Seafood
The outdoor terrace sits a few steps from the Viareggio promenade, which makes choosing a table inside a decision you'll quietly regret. This is a seafood restaurant where the kitchen leans on personal technique rather than obvious spectacle, the wine list rewards browsing, and the service is the kind that feels attentive without being theatrical. Bring people you want to linger with; the sea view does a lot of the conversational heavy lifting.
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Rank 8. Il Merlo
Mediterranean Italian
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Rank 9. Da Cecco
Tuscan
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Rank 10. Lux Lucis
Contemporary Italian
A lift inside the Hotel Principe Forte dei Marmi opens onto a rooftop garden with views of the Versilian coastline, and on a clear evening the sunset does a fair amount of the work. This is a one-Michelin-star fine dining room where the chef, trained in the hills around Modena, runs a menu of technically precise, visually composed Italian cooking with quiet Emilian undertones. The sommelier has been here since day one, and it shows.
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Rank 11. Alex
Mediterranean
Tribal motifs on the walls, wicker chairs, and dark wood tables set the mood at this relaxed but polished seafood restaurant just off a busy stretch of road in Marina di Pietrasanta. The kitchen leans Mediterranean with a cosmopolitan eye, and the wine cellar runs deep and international. Steamed langoustines and prawns with crisp vegetables have become the kind of dish regulars order without consulting the menu.
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The bread alone gets a mention in the Michelin inspector's notes, which tells you something about the kitchen's priorities. La Magnolia is a fine dining restaurant inside the Byron Hotel, holding a Michelin star, and the cooking moves between local Tuscan anchors and wider references with the kind of plating that makes you pause before picking up the fork. The chef's table books out well ahead, so plan accordingly.
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Rank 13. Sciabola
Mediterranean
A Michelin-starred restaurant inside the St. Mauritius hotel, where the kitchen leans heavily on the sea without committing to it entirely. The chef, Alessandro Ferrarini, works with local ingredients to build Mediterranean dishes that are precise without feeling fussy. Tasting menus and à la carte both run the same direction: clean flavors, good sourcing, and a front-of-house young enough to be enthusiastic but managed by someone who's done this long enough to keep things smooth.
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Rank 14. Bistrot
Italian Contemporary Seafood
The two wood-fired ovens do more work than the name implies: this is a Michelin-starred seafood restaurant on the Versilian coast, not the casual bistro you might expect. Fish comes mostly from the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the kitchen leans into wood-fired cooking to pull out texture and aroma. The wine cellar runs to nearly 2,000 labels, with a strong showing in Champagne and Burgundy. Lunch is a little looser, but the attention holds.
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Rank 15. Lorenzo
Seafood Italian
The sommelier still wheels out two leather-bound volumes for the wine list, which tells you most of what you need to know about Lorenzo. This is an old-school seafood institution in Forte dei Marmi, where the rooms are immaculate, the raw platter arrives with ceremony, and mayonnaise is made tableside as if it were a small performance. A Michelin star, a global crowd, and zero interest in chasing trends.
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Rank 16. La Martinatica
Modern Italian
An old mill on the edge of Pietrasanta, with wood beams overhead and a terrace that earns its keep in summer, houses this modern Italian restaurant where seafood is the clear obsession. The chef works both sides of the pass, often taking orders tableside, and the raw seafood preparations are where the kitchen shows off, small bites that lean creative without tipping into gimmick. Meat dishes round out the menu for anyone who needs convincing.
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Rank 17. Apogeo
Wood-fired Pizza
A garden pizzeria off the A12 autostrada, which sounds like a backhanded compliment until you're sitting under the greenery with a wood-fired pie in front of you. The crust is the point here, crisp and substantial enough to hold its own, and the menu splits neatly between classic and creative without chasing whatever's fashionable this season. Desserts come from a separate, clearly capable hand. It ranks on both 50 Top Pizza Italy and 50 Top Pizza World.
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Rank 18. Vesta Versilia
Seafood
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Rank 19. Filippo
Modern Mediterranean
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Rank 20. Butterfly
Modern Italian
A glass-enclosed veranda opens onto the lawn in summer and frames the garden greenery in winter, making the season part of the meal at this Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant outside Lucca. The kitchen runs as a father-and-son operation, balancing old-school comfort with the kind of imaginative plating that keeps things from feeling reverential. The family's warmth carries through to the floor, where service is polished without being stiff.
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Rank 21. Battil’oro
Pizza
The work counter and visible oven sit center-stage here, which tells you what the room is about before you've even sat down. Battil'oro is a pizzeria in Versilia's increasingly crowded coastal dining scene, turning out both classic and creative pies on light, airy dough, with a gluten-free option alongside. Wines by the glass, beers, and cocktails round things out. Weekends fill up fast, but the team keeps the floor moving without making you feel rushed.
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Rank 22. Locanda de Banchieri
Italian
A working farm and old farmhouse tucked into the Tuscan hills near the Ligurian coast, where the kitchen draws almost entirely from the kitchen garden outside. This is Michelin-starred country cooking rooted in Lunigiana, the rugged borderland most tourists skip on their way somewhere else. The panoramic veranda stretches toward the sea, and the all-vegetable tasting menu, Flora, shifts with whatever the garden is doing that week.
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Rank 23. Nida
Fusion Japanese
A short walk from Lucca's medieval walls, this cosy Japanese fusion restaurant earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand by threading together tradition and personal memory. Counter seats face the kitchen directly, which suits the format: gyoza, nigiri, and ramen pulled from Southern Japanese cooking, filtered through one chef's upbringing. The lunch teishoku sets a main beside a curated spread of small plates, and the room, all comfortable sofas, feels warmer than the premise suggests.
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A Tuscan trattoria that's been around forever, set in a village outside Lucca where the owners also run the organic farm supplying the kitchen with wine, olive oil, and vinegar. The cooking follows peasant tradition closely, grilled meats doing most of the heavy lifting. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand. Outdoor tables in the village square go fast, so book ahead if you want to sit outside pretending you live here.
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A hillside farmhouse just outside Lucca, with a terrace that fills up all summer long. Cristiano Tomei's creative restaurant runs on a blind tasting format where you pick the number of courses and then cheerfully lose track, which is rather the point. The kitchen has a signature obsession with bitter notes and Parmigiano Reggiano, often together, and the Bistecca Primitiva has its own devoted following.
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Rank 26. La Péniche
Mediterranean
A stilt house on the Brugiano Canal done up in colonial wood and Parisian brasserie details, which is a combination that shouldn't work but somehow does. La Péniche is a seafood and Mediterranean restaurant with a long à la carte menu running from a dedicated oyster list to Cantabrian anchovies and pata negra. In summer, tables out on the floating raft are the ones to ask for. Book ahead.
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Rank 27. Locanda Sant'Agata
Tuscan
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Rank 29. Erbaluigia
Italian
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Rank 30. Giglio
Modern Italian
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Rank 31. All'Olivo
Tuscan
Tucked into one of Lucca's old-town squares, this trattoria spreads across four dining rooms, one lined floor to ceiling with bottles and the others hung with artwork from the city's famous comics festival. The menu runs Tuscan classics, meat and fish both, and the tortelli filled and sauced the traditional Lucca way is the thing to order. In summer, tables spill outside into the square.
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Rank 32. Il Mecenate
Tuscan
The terrace looks straight across to San Francesco church, which is a fine thing to have while eating tordelli lucchesi. This Lucchese trattoria sits in an old city laundry along the moat, and the room stays warm and convivial in the way that places do when nobody is performing. The menu runs on local specifics, tripe, bread pudding, and the stuffed pasta the town has made its own, paired with a wine list that takes its job seriously.
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Rank 33. Il Trillo
Classical Italian
A hillside estate with its own winery and a limonaia terrace ringed by citrus trees, which is either very romantic or a strong argument for moving to Tuscany permanently. This is a country-house restaurant doing classic Tuscan cooking with a careful eye, pairing ingredients from the surrounding sea and land with enough imagination to keep things interesting. Dress for the setting.
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Rank 34. Foresta
Seafood
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Rank 35. Extra
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 36. Il Narciso
Contemporary Italian
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The open kitchen and pizza oven face the room so you can watch every pie come together, which at a Neapolitan-style pizzeria near the Marina di Massa seafront feels like a fair promise of what's coming. The dough runs soft and light, the ingredients lean on DOP-certified products, and lactose-free options sit alongside seasonal specials. Cloth napkins and cutlery rests suggest the place takes itself seriously without charging you for the attitude.
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A pizzeria on Piazza Napoleone, the grandest square in Lucca, with tables outside that catch the full theater of the evening. The style leans Neapolitan, the service moves fast, and focaccias sold street-side are a good reason to wander past even if you're not sitting down. Inside is a bit tight, which somehow only adds to the chaos-friendly charm. Reservations are a smart idea.
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A Neapolitan-style pizzeria tucked beside the church of San Frediano, where the dough is famously light and the toppings pull from Campanian suppliers alongside Tuscan growers just down the road. The room goes rustic with a modern edge, the service moves fast without feeling rushed, and the fried starters are worth ordering before anyone even looks at the pizza list. Listed among 50 Top Pizza Italy's Excellent Pizzerias.
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Rank 40. Bona
Tuscan Pizza
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Rank 41. Masaniello Pizza e Sfizi
Neapolitan Pizza
On the outskirts of Lucca, this Neapolitan pizzeria skips the charm offensive and just makes good pizza: soft, well-leavened dough, a generous crust, and toppings that lean bold rather than precious. The fried starters and Campanian snacks are the kind of thing you keep picking at while the next pizza arrives. Prices are reasonable enough that ordering an extra dish feels like common sense rather than commitment.
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Rank 45. Il Cardinale Vino e Cucina
Contemporary Italian
A seasonal Italian restaurant tucked into the pedestrian center of Sarzana, a small Ligurian town that speaks with a Tuscan accent. The kitchen rotates between meat and fish without leaning hard on either, keeping prices honest and the plates colorful. When the weather cooperates, parasols shade a generous terrace just off the main piazza. The Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks with the general vibe here.
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Rank 46. Il Fico trentacareghe
Seafood
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Rank 47. Antico Ristorante Forassiepi
Contemporary Italian
The terrace looks out over Tuscan hills, valleys, and the terracotta rooftops of villages that seem placed there for the purpose, which makes the alfresco dining in summer feel a little unfair to everywhere else. Inside, it's an elegant, unhurried Italian restaurant in the old-school sense, with service that actually notices you. The kitchen runs on regional Tuscan cooking, meat and fish both, updated just enough to feel considered rather than museum-piece.
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Rank 48. Osteria Taviani
Tuscan
A small Art Nouveau villa in the Tuscan countryside sets an unexpectedly polished stage for a modern osteria with old roots. The menu leans heavily on meat, with Tuscan tradition doing most of the heavy lifting, and when hunting season rolls around, the game dishes shift things into a more contemporary register. A courtyard garden out back handles the warm-weather overflow. The wine list sneaks in a few French bottles, which feels almost rebellious given the address.
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Thin-crust pizza with serious toppings shares the menu with craft cocktails and a proper wine list at this gourmet pizzeria and lounge bar in central Sarzana. The dough is the point: light, crispy, and carrying its toppings rather than drowning under them. The beverage program keeps pace with the kitchen rather than pretending to. A 50 Top Pizza Italy listing for those keeping score.
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Rank 50. Officine del Cibo
Neapolitan Pizza
On the outskirts of Sarzana, this artisan pizza shop splits its menu between classic Neapolitan rounds and a thin, crispy pan pizza that the kitchen has spent serious time developing. Toppings lean on local and small-producer ingredients, and the wine cellar is deep enough to suggest they take the pairing side seriously. It landed a spot on 50 Top Pizza Italy, which tracks for a place where the dough research is clearly ongoing.
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Rank 51. Fuoco e Fiamme
Wood-fired Pizza
Outdoor tables overlooking the Ligurian sea, strings of lights multiplying across the water at night, and a wood-fired oven quietly tucked behind a partition as if it has nothing to prove. This is a pizzeria in San Terenzo doing soft, foldable, classically comforting pies without any of the theater that tends to follow a good wood-fired reputation around. The service keeps pace without fuss, which at a seaside spot on a warm evening is exactly the right instinct.
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The dough is the whole argument here: long-fermented, handled by a team that treats pizza-making as a craft rather than a throughput exercise. This is a pizza restaurant in Pontedera where the toppings, including nduja and caciocavallo nods to southern Italy, are chosen to pair rather than pile. The menu has a reference or two that enthusiasts will clock with a quiet nod. If you want something fast and familiar, this is the wrong room.
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Rank 53. Oscar
Seafood
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Rank 54. Lo Scopiccio
Tuscan
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Rank 55. Nannini
Seafood, Modern Cuisine
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Rank 56. Osteria della Corte
Mediterranean
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Rank 57. Trattoria da Marino
Tuscan
A roadside trattoria in a small Tuscan village, the kind of place where the walls stay plain because the kitchen has nothing left to prove. The menu runs through regional classics, from pappa al pomodoro to tripe and lampredotto meatballs, and the wine list is longer than it looks once the host starts talking. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks.
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Rank 58. Slitti
Dessert
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A craft beer bar and meat-skewer spot on Piazza Cairoli that was pairing local brews with quality cuts before it became anyone's idea of a concept. The menu runs well beyond burgers into pork, chicken, and other skewered things, with a beer list long enough to require some help from the genuinely enthusiastic staff. It looks like a pub from the outside, which keeps expectations honest and the room easy.
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A family-run trattoria in a Tuscan mountain village where mushrooms turn up in half the dishes because mushrooms are the point. The rustic dining rooms are unfussy, the pasta is homemade, and the menu runs from tripe to a long bench of meats without ever trying to be anything other than what it is. The Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand crowd tends to find places like this before you do, but here you are.
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Rank 63. Cannavacciuolo Vineyard
Modern Italian
Antonino Cannavacciuolo, one of Italy's more recognizable chef personalities, has planted his flag in a quietly beautiful corner of Tuscany, inside a restored borgo where the dining room opens onto an actual working kitchen you can watch. The food is contemporary Italian with a formal spine, precise without feeling surgical, which is an achievement. It holds a Michelin star, and the service has the kind of unhurried confidence that comes from people who've worked elsewhere.
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Rank 64. Rio Bistrot
Ligurian
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Rank 65. Fuori Rotta
Ligurian
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Rank 66. PS Ristorante
Modern Italian
The restaurant sits inside a Medici villa, which sets a certain tone before you've even ordered. PS Ristorante runs two tasting menus, one of them vegetarian, drawing almost entirely from the estate's own olive oil, heritage grains, Cinta Senese pigs, and kitchen garden. The Tuscan countryside arrives on the plate in a quietly contemporary form, and the outdoor terrace looks straight onto the gardens if you need reminding where you are.
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Rank 67. Antica Farmacia
Tuscan
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Rank 68. La Ripadoro
Tuscan
Tucked into a small medieval hilltop village, this agriturismo restaurant runs on produce grown right on the property, with a charcoal grill doing serious work on Tuscan ribeye and a spit-roasted pigeon and quail dish that earns its place on any table. The setting is rustic farmhouse with the views to make you forget about the drive. In summer, the outdoor tables under the lime trees fill fast, so booking ahead is the move.
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Rank 69. Papaveri e Papere
Tuscan
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Rank 70. Pepenero
Modern Italian
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Rank 71. La Fenice
Wood-fired Pizza
A contemporary pizzeria in Pistoia that ranks in the 50 Top Pizza Italy and World lists, La Fenice takes the wood-fired pie seriously enough that the dough rests for a day and a half before it ever sees a flame. The menu wanders pleasantly beyond pizza into fusion appetizers and airy bites the chef calls his signature work. Staff know the beer and wine list cold and will steer you without making you feel tested.
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Rank 72. L'Ancora della Tortuga
Ligurian Seafood
One wall here is carved straight into the cliff face, which sets the tone. This seafood restaurant in Monterosso al Mare climbs above the village on the salita dei Cappuccini, and the upper terrace has the kind of Ligurian coastline view that makes you forget to order. The menu changes daily by blackboard or by whatever the server recites, leaning heavily on the sea but never ignoring the land. Book the terrace; the walk up is short.
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Rank 73. Da Miky
Seafood
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Rank 74. La Sosta di Ottone III
Ligurian
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Rank 75. Terraforte
Tuscan
A converted joinery on a sprawling Tuscan estate, Terraforte is a country-house restaurant where the menu is essentially a tour of the land around it: farm-reared meats, game, poultry, vegetables, herbs, and honey, almost all from the estate itself. You choose how many courses you want and the kitchen composes from there. In warmer months, the terrace earns its reputation without trying. The estate's own wines, including the celebrated Lupicaia, pour by the glass.
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A pizzeria set inside an old city wall in Empoli, where someone thought to pair stone arches with sleek modern decor and somehow it works. The menu runs from well-executed Neapolitan classics to bolder, less predictable combinations, with the same attention given to the traditional appetizers. The staff know the menu well enough to walk you through it without making you feel like you need to.
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Rank 77. Paca
Modern Italian
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Rank 78. L'Agave
Ligurian
A young chef cooking Ligurian to its bones, right at the tourist marina in a tiny clifftop village where the sea view alone makes the GPS confusion forgivable. This is a tasting-menu restaurant, though you can order à la carte, built around the region's produce: Albenga artichokes, Pigna beans, pine nuts, local seafood, and the foraged herb mix called prebugiun. Everything on the plate is an argument for staying in Liguria forever.
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Rank 79. MOI Omakase
Sushi
Twelve seats at the counter, no menu, and the chef decides everything, which is the whole point of omakase. This is an intimate sushi counter in central Prato run by an Italian chef whose years of travel through Japan show up in the fish he selects each morning at market. The course changes daily, the wine list is solid, and the room fills fast enough that booking borders on mandatory.
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Rank 80. Vecchia Lama
Emilian Italian
A family trattoria tucked into the Modenese Apennines, where the parents cook and their daughter works the room. Mom handles the hand-rolled pasta and desserts, dad tends the meats, and the whole operation holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Truffle scent drifts through in season. The drive up from Modena on the SP3 takes an hour of switchbacks through green valleys, which regulars treat as part of the meal rather than a detour.
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Rank 81. Podere Giglio
Tuscan
A nineteenth-century farmhouse on the quiet edge of Empoli, restored just enough to keep the rural bones showing. This is a contemporary Tuscan restaurant where the kitchen takes local, seasonal ingredients seriously without turning dinner into a lecture. The chef's pigeon dish, exploring the bird across five preparations, is the kind of thing that makes you glad you asked for recommendations. The estate produces its own wine and olive oil, which is a very Tuscan thing to do.
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Rank 82. La Pineta
Classic Seafood
You drive through a pine forest and land practically on the sand before you spot the low, unassuming building that holds one of Tuscany's most quietly serious seafood restaurants, a Michelin-starred one. The Zazzeri family has been running this room forever, and the interior feels pleasantly stuck in another era. Classic techniques, local catch, no trend-chasing. The beach view does the decorating.
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Tucked into the alleyways of central Levanto, this pizzeria builds its reputation on a thin, crispy crust kept deliberately light, so the toppings have somewhere to land without turning everything soggy. The menu leans into local ingredients and the craft beer and wine list is chosen to match rather than compete. Staff move quickly and the room stays convivial, which in a Ligurian beach town is saying something.
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A Ligurian pizza spot in the center of Levanto where the dough is kept deliberately light, the kind that makes you forget you've eaten three slices. The toppings lean into local pantries, and the staff steers you through them without the usual fanfare. Craft beers and regional wines round out the short list. It's a small, tidy room, and the whole thing has the quiet confidence of a place that doesn't need to explain itself.
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Rank 85. Lucenti
Emilian Italian
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Rank 86. Il Doretto
Seafood
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Rank 87. Bottega Dani
Gourmet Pizza
A pizzeria in Cecina where the gourmet pies go through a double cook, steamed then baked, landing somewhere between pillowy and crisp in a way that takes a little explaining. The dough work is clearly the obsession here, and the raw materials are chosen with matching care. While you wait, there's an aperitivo in a garden overlooking a pool, which feels like a reasonable way to spend a Tuesday. The cellar and beer list both punch above what you'd expect.
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Rank 88. Pasticceria Mannori
Bakery
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A pastry shop in Prato run by a chef who decided the city needed more than dainty tea cakes, and built a whole sweet world around that conviction. The pesche di Prato, brioche spheres filled with pastry cream and soaked in alchermes, are the signature, but the babà earned its own recognition, landing on 50 Top Italy's list of the country's finest. Spiced panforte, pralines, and layered torte fill out a counter that rewards slow browsing.
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Rank 91. Il Piraña
Seafood
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A neighborhood pizza shop on the edge of Prato where the decision between round and rectangular is not trivial. The shared rectangular format lets a table split three different toppings, which is the kind of pragmatic generosity that makes a small room feel bigger. The dough is well-hydrated and seriously considered, with a choice of flours that the staff will happily talk you through without making it a lecture.
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Rank 93. Enoteca Del Duca
Tuscan