The Best Italian Food in Atlanta
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The best Italian food in Atlanta, according to the experts: 50 Top Pizza, the Michelin Guide, and AAA have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Antico Pizza Napoletana comes out on top.
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Gigi's and La Grotta hold the next two places. AAA shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with the Michelin Guide next.
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Rank 1. Antico Pizza Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The menu lives on a sign above the counter, and you decide on your pizza before you've even found a seat at the communal tables. This cavernous Neapolitan pizza shop shares its dining room with the prep kitchen, so you watch the dough get shaped and slid into one of three wood-fired ovens while you wait. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on 50 Top Pizza USA, which tracks for a place that draws lines in a strip-mall parking lot.
The awards
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #33 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 2. Gigi's
Italian
A former diner in Candler Park, now very small and very Italian in the red-sauce-and-checkered-cloth spirit, though the kitchen wanders freely from that premise. Housemade pasta shares the menu with duck off a yakitori grill and fish roe deployed with unexpected confidence. The amaro list is taken seriously, and the tiramisù arrives in tidy little blocks. The New York Times put it on their Atlanta list, as did Esquire.
The awards
- Eater Eater: The Best New Restaurants in America
- Esquire Esquire: The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now
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Rank 3. La Grotta
Italian
Tucked into a residential building on Peachtree, La Grotta has been an old-school institution for northern Italian fine dining in Atlanta. The room is quiet and elegant, the kind where people linger over an extensive, owner-curated wine list rather than check their phones. A patio with a fountain and lush landscaping handles warmer nights. It holds a AAA Four Diamond rating.
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Rank 4. Antica Posta
Tuscan
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Rank 4. Di Paolo
Northern Italian
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Rank 4. Ecco Midtown
Pizzeria
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Rank 4. Grana - Piedmont
Pizzeria
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Rank 4. Pricci
Italian
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A pasta shop tucked into a Buckhead shopping center, which sounds like a contradiction until you see the cement floors, open shelving, and sidewalk tables full of people working through house-made cacio e pepe. Nearly a dozen pasta formats run the menu at lunch and dinner, with focaccia sandwiches rounding things out at midday. The room is genuinely convivial in a way that feels earned rather than designed.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 10. Antico Pizza Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Atlanta
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
- The Infatuation #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Atlanta
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
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Rank 11. Amalfi Ristorante
Southern Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 11. Crispina Ristorante & Pizzeria
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 11. Dominick's
Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 11. Fritti
Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 11. Osteria 832
Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved