The Top 86 Places to Eat Near Radici
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Rank 2. Da Gregorio
Umbrian
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Rank 3. La Parolina
Italian
A Michelin-starred restaurant tucked into a residential corner of a tiny hilltop village, with a terrace that looks out over a valley so pastoral it barely seems real. The cooking is rooted in this particular patch of Lazio, country flavors sharpened by a light technical hand. The wine cellar runs deep, with bottles that have had time to think. Pigeon, when it appears on the menu, tends to be the thing people are still talking about on the drive home.
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Rank 4. La Palomba
Umbrian
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A garden terrace with a front-row view of Orvieto's Duomo sets the scene at this modern Italian restaurant tucked into the old city. The chef works a seasonal menu built around regional ingredients, and the wine list leans into local Umbrian bottles with the kind of care that makes you order a second glass before you've decided on dessert. Unhurried and unshowy, it's a good argument for lingering over lunch.
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Claudio Alvicolo is a pizza restaurant tucked into Orvieto's old town, where the chef rotates through different doughs, flour blends, and cooking methods with the zeal of someone who has a lot of opinions about fermentation. Tray pizzas, pan varieties, and Roman-style cuts move through the room alongside a thoughtful beer and wine list built around pairings. A spot on 50 Top Pizza Italy suggests the obsession is pointing in the right direction.
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Rank 8. Caino
Tuscan
Bread stuffed with house ricotta and their own olive oil arrives before you've opened the menu, which tells you everything about how this two-Michelin-starred restaurant in a tiny stone village thinks about hospitality. The chef's cooking is rooted in Maremma, unsentimental and un-fussy, the kind that trusts a charcoal-grilled lamb or a bowl of gnudi to do the talking without any architectural assistance. The cellar runs to around 2,500 labels.
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Rank 9. Pepe Nero
Modern Seafood
A small, modern seafood restaurant on the western shore of Lake Bolsena, where the terrace puts you close enough to the water to feel the logic of eating fish here. The menu leans almost entirely toward the sea, which takes a little faith this far inland, but the kitchen commits to it. You can follow a themed tasting menu or pick your way through the carte, choosing at least two dishes and letting the quiet, unhurried service do the rest.
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Rank 10. Daniela
Tuscan
Stone walls and a terrace looking out over the Tuscan hills make Daniela the natural endpoint of a wander through San Casciano's cobblestone lanes. It's a cozy trattoria on the main square, the kind that keeps things rooted in local tradition, with handmade pastas, wild boar pappardelle, and roasted rabbit alongside a wine list that stays mostly in Tuscany.
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Rank 11. Silene
Tuscan
A one-Michelin-star restaurant tucked into a tiny village on the slopes of Monte Amiata, where the kitchen garden doubles as the menu and the chef's own olive oil from Seggiano finishes nearly everything. The cooking is deeply Tuscan, precise without being fussy, and the room is the kind of elegant-but-relaxed that makes you forget you drove an hour to get here. Bread arrives as a statement of intent.
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Rank 12. Il Tufo Allegro
Tuscan
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Guests are handed off to an aperitif in a cave-like rock room before the meal proper begins in dining rooms where open kitchens are framed like gallery paintings. This is a serious Umbrian fine-dining destination, set above a lake with a lawn that earns a moment before you go in. The menu hinges on a choice between lighter and longer tasting formats, or a structured à la carte pulled from two distinct sections of the kitchen's creative and classic repertoire.
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Rank 14. Trippini
Umbrian
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Rank 15. Vecchia Napoli
Neapolitan Pizza
A wood-fired Neapolitan pizza spot tucked into a farmhouse off the kind of road you only know if someone told you. The setting is rustic and roomy, the atmosphere unpretentious, and the kitchen keeps the pizza straightforward and honest, the way tradition demands. Weekends fill up fast and the take-out orders never stop, which tells you what the locals think. The fried starters are worth ordering before the pizza arrives.
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Rank 16. I Due Cippi dal 1976
Meats and Grills, Classic Cuisine
The open-fire grill in the middle of the room isn't decor; it's the whole argument. This is a serious steakhouse in a small Tuscan thermal-spring town, built around dry-aged beef from Italian and Japanese breeds, cooked over wood with the confidence of a kitchen that's been doing this for a long time. Chianina, wagyu, and game all pass through the same fire. It holds the number four spot on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which the room backs up quietly.
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Rank 17. Da Nilo
Tuscan
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Rank 18. Essenza
Traditional Italian
Picture windows framing the Umbrian hills flood the dining room with the kind of light that makes you want to linger. This is the restaurant inside Borghi dell'Eremo resort, where the kitchen leans into traditional Umbrian cooking and the estate raises its own rabbits, which end up in a ragù over saffron tagliatelle. Unhurried, landscape-forward, and probably not where you're going if you're in a rush to get somewhere else.
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Barrel-vaulted ceilings and a terrace shaded enough to actually linger through a long lunch set the scene at this old-school Tuscan trattoria in central Chiusi. The kitchen digs into regional recipes that predate most cookbooks, turning them out with the kind of generous flavour that makes you suspect shortcuts were simply never invented here. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks.
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A garden gazebo for summer candlelit dinners, and a hushed, few-table dining room that earns its advance booking in winter: I Salotti is a creative restaurant anchored to its own farm, so the menu moves with what the land is doing. The wine cellar, assembled over many years, runs to more than two thousand Italian labels. Chiusi is not exactly on everyone's Tuscan itinerary, which is rather the point.
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Rank 22. Tenuta del Gallo
Italian
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Rank 23. Lillotatini
Umbrian
A terrace on a medieval piazza in a hilltop hamlet that barely registers on most maps, Lillotatini is a family-run trattoria serving Umbrian classics, freshwater fish, and truffles when the season allows. The family also runs a wine boutique steps away on the same square, and those bottles migrate onto the restaurant list, which gives the wine conversation a certain built-in authority.
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Rank 24. La Filanda
Tuscan
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Rank 25. Fiorfiore
Modern Umbrian Italian
The olive oil on the table comes straight from the estate, which tells you something about how seriously this Umbrian restaurant takes its pantry. It sits in an elegant villa above Todi, with views that make lingering over a long lunch feel obligatory rather than indulgent. The menu stays rooted in regional tradition while nudging things into modern territory, and the wine list throws in a surprisingly serious champagne selection for a hilltop in Umbria.
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Rank 26. Indigeno
Tuscan
A restaurant inside the Salcheto Organic Winery, set in a farmhouse that has been quietly watching the hills around Montepulciano for centuries. The cooking is home-style Tuscan, grounded in the estate's own produce and small local suppliers, and guests sit at long shared Amiata oak tables that make the whole thing feel like a very civilized harvest lunch. In summer the outdoor tables open up, which makes the wine list feel less like an upsell and more like an obvious fact.
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A glazed veranda looks out over Tuscan vineyard rows at this Michelin-starred creative tasting-menu restaurant set within a working wine estate outside Montepulciano. The chef structures the menu as three distinct tasting journeys, each with a different lens on the same landscape and larder. Pairing sheep with oysters and endive is either quietly audacious or quietly obvious, depending on how the dish lands on you, which is probably the point.
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Rank 29. I Rodella
Umbrian
A centuries-old stone complex on the road to Rome, now home to a quietly serious Umbrian restaurant run by three brothers, two in the kitchen and one steering the wine in the dining room. The cooking draws on local traditions with a Venetian thread woven through, the result of the family's roots. Herbs come from the garden out back, and the portions are the kind that make you revise your dessert plans.
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Rank 30. L'Acquario
Umbrian
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Rank 31. Trattoria del Cimino dal 1895
Regional Italian
On the uphill road to the Palazzo Farnese, this old-school family trattoria in Caprarola has been turning out northern Lazio cooking for five generations, and the kitchen cooks like it plans to go five more. The food is rooted in Tuscia, with some Tuscan drift, and the wine list runs to around 900 labels, many available by the glass, managed by the cook's son after a stint in fancier rooms abroad.
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Rank 32. Lupaia
Tuscan
A restored Tuscan hamlet perched between Montepulciano and Montefollonico, where the chef decides the menu each morning based on whatever the estate has produced. Dinner is al fresco in warm weather, and a glass of the sunset comes free. In cooler months the dining room looks straight into an open kitchen. The road to get there is genuinely pastoral, which is the point. Book ahead if you're not sleeping here, and don't expect a printed menu to study on the way.
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Rank 33. Da Ciacco
Tuscan
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A fireplace warms the main room of this old-school Tuscan trattoria in the stone village of San Quirico d'Orcia, with a pergola garden out back for warmer months. The cooking is rooted deep in the territory: hand-rolled pasta, truffle, meats and game, the kind of menu that doesn't need to explain itself. A wine list heavy on local labels keeps the whole thing honest.
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Rank 35. La Sala dei Grappoli
Modern Italian
The drive in through cypresses and vineyards does a lot of the work before you've even sat down. This Michelin-starred restaurant sits inside a medieval castle at Castello Banfi, with wine-themed frescoes lining the interior and a terrace that turns the surrounding Tuscan hills into the main course. The chef brings a Pugliese sensibility to the tasting menus, with the territory and the kitchen garden doing most of the talking.
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A sushi restaurant in Perugia that also runs a traditional Japanese menu, and does both with the kind of unhurried seriousness you don't expect this far from the coast. The room is relaxed and welcoming, and the presentation is careful without being fussy. Prices sit above what the region usually asks, but the sourcing explains most of it. It landed at number eight on 50 Top Italy's sushi list, which for Umbria is a fairly extraordinary thing to be able to say.
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Rank 37. Namo Ristobottega
Seasonal Italian
The menu opens with a page explaining the chef's green philosophy, which sets the tone for this seasonal Italian restaurant tucked into Tarquinia. Produce from the Viterbo region drives the kitchen, and the owner doubles as an enthusiastic guide through the food and wine list. Outdoor tables with views book up fast, so plan ahead. The Michelin Guide has awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 38. Belle Helene
Italian
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Rank 39. Elementi
Umbrian
Perched on the hills between Perugia and Torgiano, this Michelin-starred restaurant inside Borgo Brufa works through a tight network of small Umbrian producers rather than showmanship. The chef builds menus that shift with the season and harvest, so what arrives at the table reads less like a greatest-hits tour of the region and more like a quiet argument about what it actually tastes like right now.
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Rank 40. Meunier
Pizza
The hook here is the pairing: pizza and Champagne, a combination that either sounds ridiculous or makes complete sense depending on your mood, and this Umbrian pizza restaurant makes a quiet case for the latter. The dough is airy and crackling at the crust, the toppings chosen with some restraint, and the room is spare and bright. It ranks on the 50 Top Pizza World list, and regulars also come for the holiday leavened goods and brioche meant for gelato.
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Rank 41. Osteria del Posto
Umbrian
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Rank 42. Ada
Modern Italian
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Montalcino is Brunello country, so a tavern with a wine list deep in old vintages fits right in. This is a rustic trattoria where the kitchen leans hard on Tuscan tradition, and the handmade pici with meat sauce is the kind of unpretentious dish that makes you wonder why anyone bothers with anything else. The Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand, which makes sense once the bread basket lands.
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Rank 44. Boccon DiVino
Tuscan
A restored farmhouse on the edge of Montalcino, with a glazed terrace that earns its keep even in winter. This is a Tuscan restaurant where the kitchen leans into the territory, peposo and onion soup alongside more contemporary plates, and the wine list tilts heavily toward local reds, Brunello especially, with older vintages getting their due. The service knows its bottles cold, which matters when the list runs that deep.
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On the outskirts of Perugia, in a setting that looks more auto workshop than trattoria, this slice shop runs its dough through a long fermentation that keeps the crust light enough to eat at lunch without regretting it by two. The red bases are well-balanced, and the roasted potato and sausage slice is the one worth pointing at. Outdoor seating and easy parking make it a natural pit stop for the industrial-zone crowd who actually knows what they're doing.
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Rank 46. Il Grottino
Umbrian
The open barbecue grill is the focal point of this cozy trattoria in a medieval hilltop village between Foligno and Perugia. Umbrian truffles and hyper-local produce run through the menu, with meat doing most of the talking, cooked over live fire in full view of the room. Guests staying the night in one of the comfortable rooms wake up to the same unhurried pace the valley has apparently maintained for centuries.
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Rank 47. Re Cornicione
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 48. Il Molo
Italian
A family-run restaurant in Passignano's historic centre, right where the village pokes out into Lake Trasimeno, Il Molo has been around forever and leans hard into what the lake provides. Request a window table when you book and you'll eat fish pulled from the water you're looking at. The à la carte sits alongside tasting menus, and the kitchen moves between traditional Umbrian and something a little more contemporary without making a fuss about it.
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Rank 49. Da Luciano
Seafood
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Rank 50. Campo del Drago
Tuscan
The drive in on unpaved white roads through vineyards is, as advertised, part of the point. Campo del Drago is a two-Michelin-star fine dining restaurant inside a medieval hamlet in the hills above Montalcino, where the chef turns the estate's own kitchen garden into contemporary Tuscan tasting menus. The panoramic terrace and a wine list running past 700 labels, heavy on local Brunello, do the rest of the convincing.
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On the outskirts of Perugia, this spacious pizzeria draws locals who come as much for the room as the round stuff. The menu runs from starters through traditional pies to the small pan-baked tegamino style, all made with sourced ingredients. Service moves at the kind of pace that doesn't make you feel processed. 50 Top Pizza lists it among Italy's excellent pizzerias, which in pizza terms is saying something.
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Rank 52. Degli Angeli
Traditional Lazio Italian
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Rank 53. L'Officina
Italian
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Rank 54. Walter Redaelli
Tuscan
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Rank 55. Quattro Sensi
Umbrian
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Rank 56. Serpillo
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 57. Il Conte Matto
Tuscan
A 14th-century gamekeeper's cottage turned trattoria in the Tuscan hills, with a terrace that looks out over exactly the landscape you'd imagine. The Michelin Bib Gourmand goes to the chef's cooking, which is resolutely local: garden vegetables, nearby farmers, and the kind of seasonal Tuscan menu that doesn't need to explain itself. The cured ham plate alone will slow you down considerably.
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Rank 58. Il Giurista
Regional Italian
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Rank 59. Stella
Italian
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Two brothers named their restaurant after their mother, which sets the tone before you've even sat down. Olimpia is a modern trattoria in a renovated old building in the hamlet of Brufa, where one brother runs the kitchen with a sure hand on Umbrian ingredients and the other manages the room with the kind of warmth that actually feels earned. The menu leans into vegetables in a region better known for meat, which is its own quiet statement.
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Rank 61. Enoteca Meucci
Tuscan
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Rank 62. N'uovo Vino e Cucina
Modern Italian
Large windows frame the Tuscia Viterbese woodland at this modern Italian restaurant tucked inside a country resort outside Sutri. The kitchen takes traditional Lazio recipes as a starting point and works them forward with contemporary technique, leaning on local produce. Fresh pasta and dry-aged wild boar show up regularly, and the room's soft lighting does the kind of heavy lifting that a good candlelit table should.
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Rank 63. Marghereat
Neapolitan Pizza
The margherita comes in three versions here, which tells you something about how seriously this Neapolitan pizza spot takes its namesake dish. The crust runs high and airy, the dough slow enough to sit well afterward. It's informal and relaxed, at the foot of Perugia's centro storico, with a warmth that doesn't feel performed. Across the street, a sister space called Marghereat Lab experiments with Roman-style pizza and small pan versions if you want to compare notes.
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Rank 64. Il Falconiere
Tuscan
The approach alone does some work: narrow lanes between dry-stone walls, fields stretching across the Baracchi estate, and then a Michelin-starred restaurant that pours wine grown just outside the window. It's an upscale Tuscan dining room with a firm sense of place, built around Chianina beef, pici, and herbs from the surrounding land. The olive oil on the table was likely pressed a few hundred metres away, which is either charming or makes you feel slightly underdressed.
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Rank 65. Ottavi Mare
Seafood
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Rank 67. Camiano Piccolo
Umbrian
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Rank 68. Nascostoposto
Pizza
A pizza spot in Terni that opens with a maritozzo filled with genovese before you've even thought about the menu, which sets the tone nicely. The pies lean Neapolitan, with combinations like zucchini cream and provolone sauce or Annurca apple chutney with bresaola playing it less safe than they sound. Desserts stick around in the memory too. It landed on 50 Top Pizza Italy, and the room is cozy enough that you won't mind a slow finish.
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Rank 69. Il Pellicano
Contemporary Italian
The terrace hangs over the Tyrrhenian with rosemary drifting up from the hillside, which sets an unfair standard before the food even arrives. This is fine dining inside a storied Tuscan resort, and it holds a Michelin star. The chef plays with contrasting textures in a single dish while keeping flavors precise, moving between land and sea with the kind of confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. The wine list is extensive, and the service is warm without being stiff.
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Rank 70. La Bucaccia
Tuscan
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Rank 71. Locanda del Molino
Tuscan
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Rank 72. Osteria del Teatro
Tuscan
A 16th-century dining room with a fireplace sets the tone at this Tuscan osteria in the hill town of Cortona, where the cooking stays close to local tradition and whatever the season is offering. Theatrical decor runs through every room, from the formal to the trattoria-style. A small terrace looks onto the pedestrian street, and the few tables out there go fast, so book ahead if eating outdoors matters to you.
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Rank 73. San Lorenzo
Seafood
Black truffles turn up with genuine generosity here, which tells you something about how this family-run restaurant in Spoleto's historic center operates. It sits inside the Clitunno hotel, but the mood is its own: an intimate, recently refurbished dining room with seasonal meat and fish, and a terrace on the small square for warmer nights. Park outside the restricted zone and walk in; the stroll through the old town is half the point.
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Rank 74. Apollinare
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 75. Il Capanno
Modern Italian
A trattoria tucked in the Umbrian countryside where the staff has apparently been warm since before you even arrived, the courtesy starting at the reservation. The menu runs seasonal and regional, traditional dishes nudged just slightly without making a fuss about it. Summer meals spill onto a terrace surrounded by greenery; winter pulls everything inside to something genuinely cozy. The portions are generous and the presentation unfussy, which makes the depth of the wine list a pleasant surprise.
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Rank 76. Forma
Modern Italian
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A slim causeway connecting the mainland to Monte Argentario is the address, and the veranda faces the lagoon so directly that sunset is practically a menu item. This is a contemporary osteria built around sustainably caught local fish, with an organic-leaning wine list to match. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. Book ahead; the tables fill fast and the room is small enough that showing up optimistic won't end well.
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A small pizzeria near Perugia where the menu splits three ways: round pizza, pan pizza, or focaccia, so arguments at the table are structural rather than personal. The room is compact enough that a reservation is the sensible move, and the fried starters have their own following. Cocktails, wine, and beer all get serious treatment alongside the dough, which puts this a step past the usual slice-and-soda operation.
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Rank 79. La Locanda del Cardinale
Modern Italian
The dining room sits over the excavated remains of a Roman villa, which makes the bread service feel appropriately humble by comparison. This is a sit-down restaurant in central Assisi, split between straightforward Umbrian cooking and more considered modern plates. The wine cellar is serious enough to be a destination on its own, and the setting, ancient stone and all, does most of the interior decorating.
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Rank 80. Benedikto
Modern Italian
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Rank 81. Canapone
Italian
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Rank 82. L'Uva e il Malto
Tuscan Seafood
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Rank 83. Osteria Il Granaio
Tuscan
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Rank 84. Delicato
Modern Italian
Stone walls and a terrace at the foot of a medieval church set the scene at this country restaurant in a hilltop village on the Lazio-Umbria border. The cooking leans into local ingredients without fussing over them, which turns out to be harder than it sounds. Small-producer Lazio wines round out a meal that reads like the region explaining itself quietly. The kind of place you find by accident and then tell everyone about.
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A Neapolitan pizza spot on the Civitavecchia waterfront, with harbor views that make waiting for a table feel like a reasonable life choice. The wood-fired oven is front and center, turning out soft, light pies with that tell-tale puffy crust. The lingotto cacio e pepe, fried to a crackly shell, takes a hard left from the pizza menu and lands well. Staff are the kind that notice when your glass is empty.
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A roomy, modern pizzeria just outside Umbertide's center, near the sports complex where parking is never a problem. The menu runs Neapolitan-style pies alongside appetizers, burgers, and a kids' menu, so it's built for a full table rather than a solo slice. The team moves quickly without making you feel rushed, which is harder than it sounds on a busy Friday.